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His father was probably made a knight-baronet after the battle of the Boyne. The new version of the song was written about 1750 by Lady Caroline Keppel to Robert, or Robin Adair, with whom she was deeply in love. I will re-peat the story as it is handed down.
About a centuiy and a half ago, an impulsive young Irishman named Robert Adair, who was studying in Dublin for the medical profession, got into some scrape, and as he possessed little money and few friends, the only way he saw out of the difficulty was flight. So he speedily quitted Dublin and made his way to Holyhead, with the intention of going to that golden city of ambitious youth, London. Post travelling in those days was very expensive, and when Adair reached Holyhead, he discovered that his purse was as light as his heart; consequently he had nothing to do but accept the inevitable, and so he manfully set out to walk to the me-tropolis. He had not gone far when he came upon a carriage that had been overturned, for the roads at that time were in a horrible con-dition. The owner and occupant of the vehicle a well-known leader of fashionable society, was greatly alarmed at the accident, and had be-sides, received some slight personal injury. Adair, like a true Irishman, at once offered his
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