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FAMOUS SONGS
ever, declined. Adored and admired by all who knew him, he lived to the ripe old age of eighty, and his death was deeply lamented. Lady Caroline, however, who did not enjoy good health, died after giving birth to their third child. Knowing how devotedly attached her husband was to her, she felt he would not marry again, and she was right. Except on State occasions, when he was obliged to don. Court costume, he wore mourning in remem-brance of his love and his wife, until he died in 1790, when he was buried with her in the family vault. Their only son, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Adair, died in 1855 at the advanced age of ninety-two, after a brilliant career, having proved himself a very capable diplomatist. The only part of this story which appears in any way doubtful, as far as reliable data go, con-cerns the episode on the road to London. For the rest the writing of the song, and the mar-riage with Lady Keppel are perfectly accurate, and Robin Adair was well known in London society as " the lucky Irishman" and was often so addressed by George III.
This sketch would hardly be complete with-out the words of the song, and I here append the lyric as originally written by Lady Caroline at Bath, and wrongfully attributed to Burns.
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