Illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland .. originally compiled to accompany the "Scots musical museum" [by James Johnson] and now published separately, with additional notes and illustrations . ord at *Mussleburgh. The transcriber, Thomas Wode, styles him-self Vicar of Sanctandrous. Another copy of the tune About the Bankis of Helicon, is preserved in a manuscriptwhich formerly belonged to the Rev, Mr Cranstoun, ministerof Ancrum, Roxburghshire, and afterwards to Dr JohnLeyden. A printed copy of the music likewise appears inCampbells Introduction to the History of Poetry in Sco
Illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland .. originally compiled to accompany the "Scots musical museum" [by James Johnson] and now published separately, with additional notes and illustrations . ord at *Mussleburgh. The transcriber, Thomas Wode, styles him-self Vicar of Sanctandrous. Another copy of the tune About the Bankis of Helicon, is preserved in a manuscriptwhich formerly belonged to the Rev, Mr Cranstoun, ministerof Ancrum, Roxburghshire, and afterwards to Dr JohnLeyden. A printed copy of the music likewise appears inCampbells Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scot-land, Edinburgh 1798, and another in Sibbalds Chronicleof Scottish Poetry, vol. iii, Edinburgh 1802. These two 2 a 408 CCCCLXVI. THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE. printed copies agree with the old manuscript almost note fornote, but the tune in the museum is that handed down byoral communication. The reader is here presented with agenuine copy of the music, in modern notation, but crotchetsand quavers are substituted for the lozenge-shaped minumsand crotchets in the manuscript, and bars are introduced fordividing the measure, which are omitted in the ancient copies. TPIE BANKS OF HELICON. From a MS. in \ schein; Or if the la-dies that did lave Their bo-dies by your ^t Ee~ ?: Eg r ^ m t :=i brim. So scimlie Aver, or yet so suave, So beau-ti-ful or ^ ^^^^^^ CCCCLXVI. THE CHERUIE AND THE SLAE. 409 S—t ? P=* ti~-^-^ ( trim. Con-tem - pill, ex - em -pill Tak by her proper port, Gif S ^ ^& ^^jljjl ^^^m f 0 - - ny, sa bo - nie, Amang you did resort. p I r J f \-u^fW^ ai No, no. Forsuith was never none That with this perfect paragon. In bewtie might compair. The Muses wald have given the gree To her, as to the A per see, And peirles perle preclair. Thinking with admiration Her persone so perfyte. Nature in hir creatioun. To form hir tuik delyte. Confess then, express then Your nymphes and all thair race. For bewtie, of dewtie Sould yield and give hir place. This poem was probably co
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