Maggie coost her head fu' heigh," Duncan fleech'd, and Duncan pray'd; Duncan sigh'd baith out and in, Time and chance are but a tide, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. 'Shall I, like a fool,' quoth he, How it comes-let doctors tell, Something in her bosom wrings, Duncan was a lad o' grace, Maggie's was a piteous case, a Fyll high. d Made. z Cast, or carried. b Asquint. e At a shy distance. c Very proud. f Entreated. A well-known rock in the frith of Clyde. Wept till his eyes were sore and dim. iTalked of jumping over a precipice, or waterfall. Duncan could na be her death, THE COUNTRY LASSIE. "I wish Burns had written more of his songs in this lively and dramatic way. The enthusiastic affection of the maiden, and the suspicious care and antique wisdom of the "dame of wrinkled eild," animate and lengthen the song without making it tedious. "Robie" has indeed a faithful and eloquent mistress, who vindicates true love and poverty against all the insinuations of one whose speech is spiced with very pithy and biting proverbs.' Allan Cunningham. Tune.-John, come kiss me now. IN simmer when the hay was mawn, Blythe Bessy in the milking shiel, Says, I'll be wed, come o 't what will ;' And, lassie, ye 're but young, ye ken; For Johnnie o' the Buskie-glen, Smothered. m Gentle. / Cheerful. o The green field. p Every sheltered spot. 9 Shed. r Old age. s Little. Plentiful or well-stocked house. t Choose. w Adds fuel to. x Cropu Ae blink o' him I wad na gie For Buskie-glen and a' his gear. A hungry care 's an uncod care: Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill."t 'O, gear will buy me rigs o'land, And gear will buy me sheep and kye; Light is the burden love lays on; BESSY AND HER SPINNING WHEEL. Tune.-Bottom of the Punch Bowl. Written for Johnson's Musical Museum.' The old song of the Lass and her Spinning Wheel,' though animated by love, must have suggested to Burns the idea of this eulogy to household thrift. It is a pity that there is now so little to do-in Scotland at least for 'spinning wheels.' O LEEZE me1 on my spinning wheel, y Wealth. z Fight. b Sore. a Gentlest manner. c 'Tis always best to fight full-handed. e Since. f Ale. g Pleasant. k Clothes me plentifully. d Strange, or very great. i A phrase of attachment. m Low. |