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... ladies and gentlemen to write new words to old folk - airs - the words were generally English and sentimental , but sometimes they were in a rather self - conscious Scots dialect . Antiquarians such as David Herd collected every ...
... ladies and gentlemen to write new words to old folk - airs - the words were generally English and sentimental , but sometimes they were in a rather self - conscious Scots dialect . Antiquarians such as David Herd collected every ...
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... lady , Or if I blush when thou shalt ca ' me Tyta or daddie ... His eye was not on Gray or Shenstone here ; the stanza form is one that had had a long history in Scottish - indeed , in European - poetry , and had been used by Ramsay and ...
... lady , Or if I blush when thou shalt ca ' me Tyta or daddie ... His eye was not on Gray or Shenstone here ; the stanza form is one that had had a long history in Scottish - indeed , in European - poetry , and had been used by Ramsay and ...
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... lady herself : O Jenny , dinna toss your head , An ' set your beauties a ' abread1 ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! ..... At once , in calling her by the simple country name ' Jenny ' , the poet has changed her ...
... lady herself : O Jenny , dinna toss your head , An ' set your beauties a ' abread1 ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! ..... At once , in calling her by the simple country name ' Jenny ' , the poet has changed her ...
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