. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. numbers he was tanc, My winsome Gilderoy. Wae worth the louns that made the laws To hang a man for gear;To reave of life for sic a canse As stealing horse or mare .Had not their laws been made sae thick, 1 neer had lost my joy;Wi sorrow neer had wet my cheek For my dear Gilderoy! Gif Gilderoy had done amiss, He might hae banishtbeen ;—Ah, what sair cruelty is this, To hang sic handsome men .To han
. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. numbers he was tanc, My winsome Gilderoy. Wae worth the louns that made the laws To hang a man for gear;To reave of life for sic a canse As stealing horse or mare .Had not their laws been made sae thick, 1 neer had lost my joy;Wi sorrow neer had wet my cheek For my dear Gilderoy! Gif Gilderoy had done amiss, He might hae banishtbeen ;—Ah, what sair cruelty is this, To hang sic handsome men .To hang the flower o Scottish land, Sae sweet and fair a boy :—Nae lady had sae white a hand As thee, uiy Gilderoy. Of Gilderoy sae feard they were, Wi irons his limbs they strung;To Edinborow led him there, And on a gallows hung him high aboon the rest, He was sae bauld a hoy;There died the youth whom I lued best, My handsome Gilderoy . Sune as he yielded up his breath I bare his corse away,Wi tears that trickled for his death I washd his comlie clay ;And sicker in a grave right deep (laid the dear lued boy:And now for ever 1 maun weep My winsome Gilderoy. &IZ,Z>EROY. 9-\ P Ali! CHLOKIS, could I now but sit, As un_concernd as when g^-LMv^ I J^ir j Q^i f^ -^ *- ^ t-i -r- Ali! CHLOR1S, coud I now hut sit, As un_concernd as when Yot %*? I * m K a £R/«p I nrfjtrffi j ry^- ^i Your in_fant lieau_ty could he get Nor hap pi_ ness nor pain. ^ in fanl lu jii *i7 rr»n1il V»^ cr*-t ~M7ir Viaii in npss rw =$= HI in—fant heau ty could he—get Nor hap pi ness nor pain
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