| Share page | Visit Us On FB |
|
STORIES OF
the latter end of last century. It is claimed as Scottish, however, with some show of reason, in Glen's " Collection of Scottish Dance Music," 1891.
Richard Gall's " Farewell to Ayrshire" was attributed to Burns through Gall himself impu-dently affixing Burns's name thereto, and send-ing: it to the editor of the " Scots' Musical Museum/' in which it was inserted. Gall's biographer in the " Biographica Scotia" ex-posed the fraud in 1805.
"Take your old cloak about thee" may be English or it may be Scottish. It has been common to both countries for about three centuries. Shakespeare introduces a stanza from it in " Othello" for lago to sing. In its original English form, from the first MS., it will be found in Percy's "Reliques," 1765; in its Scot-tish dress for the first time in the " Tea-Table Miscellany." The Scottish version simply is a Scottish version of the ancient English. One never comes across an Englished Scottish song; but the reverse is to be met with in countless cases. |
||
|
132 |
||