The Roxburghe ballads . ! but it is of no authority whatever, simply anexample of theft and conveyancing. Nay, more, it is a fresh instance of thetruth that plagiarists are dunces, and know not how fitly to use stolen needs higher wit than they possess. David Herd and George Paton ofEdinburgh maltreated the original Merry Wooing of West-Country Lovers(to quote Sheridan,) as gipsies treat stolen children: disfigured them to makethem pass for their own. They added superfluous ribaldry {ex. gratia) :— His mither came out, and wi the dish clout, She daddit about his mow ; The deiis i
The Roxburghe ballads . ! but it is of no authority whatever, simply anexample of theft and conveyancing. Nay, more, it is a fresh instance of thetruth that plagiarists are dunces, and know not how fitly to use stolen needs higher wit than they possess. David Herd and George Paton ofEdinburgh maltreated the original Merry Wooing of West-Country Lovers(to quote Sheridan,) as gipsies treat stolen children: disfigured them to makethem pass for their own. They added superfluous ribaldry {ex. gratia) :— His mither came out, and wi the dish clout, She daddit about his mow ; The deiis i the chield ! I think hes gane daft;Get up, ye blubbering Sow ! Surely Caledonia stein and wild did not show herself to be fit Nurse for apoetic child of the Somersetshire order, Robin or Joan. They add other sixincongruous stanzas, from a distinct ballad, and Robin says, in Anglo-Scots, () see but how she mocks me now : she scoffs me, and does scorn ;The man that marries you, fair Maid, maun rise right i the morn !!!.
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