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kay boldly assigns it to the Marquis of Mont-rose (1612-1650), and certainly there is a like-ness in method and style that recalls his efforts. F. T. Palgrave, in the " Golden Treasury/' says Graham of Gartmore was the author. Under the,title of "O tell Me How to Woo Thee," Sir Walter Scott, in " The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," 1812, has this note: "The following verses are taken down from recitation, and are averred to be of the age of Charles I. They have indeed much of the romantic ex-pression of passion common to the poets of that period, whose lays still reflected the setting beams of chivalry; but since their publication in the first edition of this work, the editor has been informed that they were composed by the late Mr. Graham of Gartmore.,, In the " Dic-tionary of Eminent Scotsmen" Robert Graham of Gartmore, born 1750, died 1797, is given as the author of the lyric. It was first published as a separate song at Liverpool, 1812, without any composer's name. It was set by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1866, and by William Vincent Wal-lace in 1867.
" Down among the Dead Men," according to a note in the handwriting of Dr. Burney in his collection of English songs, in nine volumes, in the British Museum, was written by a " Mr.
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