The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson . mm i i J ii p jiji here, and there, and every where, was like a morn in May. 1 PP¥ P^P ir£ » f ?» ., f i» ggjj I I g | | I g | p M g p=P No care I had, nor fear of want, but ramble_d up and down; And MlW mm .? r. m i^ j-n *-r y for* a.^beau I might have pafsd in country or in town I t; jjp ij r^r r^ —. Now in the days of youthful prime a miftrefs I muft find,For love, they fay, gives one an air, and evn improves the mind,On Phillis fair, above the reft, kind fortune fixd my eyes
The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson . mm i i J ii p jiji here, and there, and every where, was like a morn in May. 1 PP¥ P^P ir£ » f ?» ., f i» ggjj I I g | | I g | p M g p=P No care I had, nor fear of want, but ramble_d up and down; And MlW mm .? r. m i^ j-n *-r y for* a.^beau I might have pafsd in country or in town I t; jjp ij r^r r^ —. Now in the days of youthful prime a miftrefs I muft find,For love, they fay, gives one an air, and evn improves the mind,On Phillis fair, above the reft, kind fortune fixd my eyes;Her piercing beauty ftruck my heart, and fhe became my choice:To Cupid ?then, with hearty- prayr, I offerd many a vow,And dancd, and fung, and fighd and fwore, as other lovers do:But when at laft I breathd my flame, I found her cold as ftone;I left the girl, and tund my pipe, to John of Badenyond. When love had thus my heart beguila, with foolifh hopes and vain,To friendships port I fteerd my courfe, and laughd at lovers pain;A friend I got by lucky chance^ twas fomething like divine, .An honeft friends a precious gift,and iuch a gift was mine:And now whatever might betide a happy man was I,In any ftrait I knew to whom I freely might apply:A ftrait foon came, my friend I tryd, he laugh d-and fpurnd my me home, and pleasd myfeif with John of Badenyond. I thought I fhould be wifer next, and would a
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