The Tea-table Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Scots Sangs. In Three Volumes. The Ninth Edition, ... by Allan Ramsay. ...sold, 1733 - 356 pages |
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... wou'd repent 339 D Dear Roger , if your Jenny geck Dumbarton's drums beat bonny - O Duty and part of reafon 52 219 226 Defpairing befide a clear stream 268 Do not ask me , charming Phillis 310 Diogenes furly and proud 325 ' Damon , if ...
... wou'd repent 339 D Dear Roger , if your Jenny geck Dumbarton's drums beat bonny - O Duty and part of reafon 52 219 226 Defpairing befide a clear stream 268 Do not ask me , charming Phillis 310 Diogenes furly and proud 325 ' Damon , if ...
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... Wou'd you chufe a wife Why shou'd a foolish marriage vow 321 When lovely Phillis thou art kind 333 336 Why we love , and why we hate When bright Aurelia tript the plain 341 348 While filently I lov'd , nor dar'd We all to conquering ...
... Wou'd you chufe a wife Why shou'd a foolish marriage vow 321 When lovely Phillis thou art kind 333 336 Why we love , and why we hate When bright Aurelia tript the plain 341 348 While filently I lov'd , nor dar'd We all to conquering ...
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... wou'd ye light down , I'll gie ye my doghter's love to win , With a fal , dal , & c . Now , woer , fin ye are lighted down , Where do ye win , or in what town ? I think my doghter winna gloom On fick a lad as ye . The woer he step'd up ...
... wou'd ye light down , I'll gie ye my doghter's love to win , With a fal , dal , & c . Now , woer , fin ye are lighted down , Where do ye win , or in what town ? I think my doghter winna gloom On fick a lad as ye . The woer he step'd up ...
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... Wou'd take my reft away . Your charms in harmless childhood lay , As metals in a mine . Age from no face takes more away , Than youth conceal'd in thine ; But as your Charms infenfibly To their perfection preft ; So love as unperceiv'd ...
... Wou'd take my reft away . Your charms in harmless childhood lay , As metals in a mine . Age from no face takes more away , Than youth conceal'd in thine ; But as your Charms infenfibly To their perfection preft ; So love as unperceiv'd ...
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... Wou'd he return - wou'd he return , She ne'er again wou'd give him care , Orcaufe him mourn or caufe him mourn . Why lov'd I thee deferving fwain , - Yet ftill thought fhame , yet ftill thought fhame , When he my yielding heart did gain ...
... Wou'd he return - wou'd he return , She ne'er again wou'd give him care , Orcaufe him mourn or caufe him mourn . Why lov'd I thee deferving fwain , - Yet ftill thought fhame , yet ftill thought fhame , When he my yielding heart did gain ...
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