… These lines will set [to the tune better thus] than as they are printed.-
To the song in the first Volume, “Here awa there awa,” added this verse, the best in the song-
“Gin ye meet my love, kiss her and clap her,
“An gin ye meet my love, dinna think shame:
“Gin ye meet my love, kiss her and clap her,
“And shew her the way to had awa hame.”
There is room enough on the plate for it.-
For the tune of the Scotch queen, in Oswald; take the two first, and the two last stanzas of the Poem entitled, The Lament, in Burns’ Poems; which . . . To daunton me -
“The blude red rose at yule may blaw,
“The simmer lilies bloom in snaw,
“The frost may freeze the deepest sea
“But an auld man shall never daunton me,
Chorus-
“To daunton me,to daunton me,
“An auld man shall never daunton me.”-
‘the chorus is set to the first part of the tune, which just suits it, en once play’d or sung over.-
