. Scottish songs : in two volumes . dicunt in tenero cramine f1nguiumcustode9 ovium carm1na, fistuladelectantqve deum, cui pecus et nlgri colles arcadi£ placent. Horace. L O N DO N:PRINTED FOR , IN ST. P AULS CHURCH-YARD} AND J. EGERTON, I Preface. IT is the observation of an ingenious writer that The Scottifh*me]odies contain fhong expref-fion of the paflions, particularly of the melancholykind; in which the air often finely correfpondsto the fubject of the fong. Love, fays he, inits various fituations of hope, fuccefs, difappoint-ment, and defpair, is finely -expr

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. Scottish songs : in two volumes . dicunt in tenero cramine f1nguiumcustode9 ovium carm1na, fistuladelectantqve deum, cui pecus et nlgri colles arcadi£ placent. Horace. L O N DO N:PRINTED FOR , IN ST. P AULS CHURCH-YARD} AND J. EGERTON, I Preface. IT is the observation of an ingenious writer that The Scottifh*me]odies contain fhong expref-fion of the paflions, particularly of the melancholykind; in which the air often finely correfpondsto the fubject of the fong. Love, fays he, inits various fituations of hope, fuccefs, difappoint-ment, and defpair, is finely -exprefied in the natu-ral melody of the old Scottifh fongs. It wereendlefs, he add?, to run through the many fineairs expreflive of ft ntiment and pafiion in the num-ber of our Scettifh iongs, which when fungin thegenuine natural manner, muft affect the heart ofevery perfon of feeling, whofe tafte is not vitiated^and feduced by fafhion and novelty. For thefereafons the words and melody of a Scotifh fongfhould be ever infeparable ; andscottishsongsiv100ingl

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