The Doom of Devorgoil: A Melo-drama. Auchindrane; Or, The Ayrshire Tragedy |
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ABRAHAM ancient armour AUCHINDRANE Ayrshire Bannatyne Bannatyne's banquet Barganie beach bear beggar better BLACKTHORN bonnet of Bonny Bonny Dundee castle COCKLEDEMOY comes comrades cottage cousin crime Cullayne Dalrymple danger dark Devorgoil drawbridge dress Dunbar DURWARD E'en Earl of Cassilis EARL OF DUNBAR ELEANOR Enter Erick Exit fate father fear fool GIFFORD give goblin guests halberd hand hast hath hear heard Heaven hither honour ISABEL KATLEEN land LEONARD Leonard Dacre look Lord maiden MARION Master Gullcrammer Maybole means meet Melchisedek merry mortal mother murder Mure night noble nought o'er OSWALD OWLSPIEGLE peace peasant PHILIP poor Quentin Blane Saint Mungo Scene Scotland Scottish seen SERGEANT sing Sir Thomas Kennedy sire song sow's face speak stranger sword taffeta tell thee There's thine thou art thou shalt to-night Tower VASSAL venison wife wild wont wretch yonder young youth
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Page 77 - He spurred to the foot of the proud Castle rock, And with the gay Gordon he gallantly spoke; 'Let Mons Meg and her marrows speak twa words or three For the love of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.
Page 76 - twas Claver'se who spoke, " Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns to be broke ; So let each Cavalier who loves honour and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. " Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men ; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Page 8 - THE sun upon the lake is low, The wild birds hush their song, The hills have evening's deepest glow, Yet Leonard tarries long. Now all whom varied toil and care From home and love divide, In the calm sunset may repair Each to the loved one's side. The noble dame on turret high, Who waits her gallant knight, Looks to the western beam to spy The flash of armour bright.
Page 77 - Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks — Ere I own an usurper, I'll couch with the fox ; And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee, You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me !
Page 77 - These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and had spears, And lang-hafted gullies to kill Cavaliers; But they shrunk to close-heads, and the causeway was free, At the toss of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. Come fill up my cup, &c.
Page 78 - Come fill up my cup, etc. He waved his proud hand, and the trumpets were blown, The kettle-drums clash'd, and the horsemen rode on, Till on Ravelston's cliffs and on Clermiston's lee, Died away the wild war-notes of Bonny Dundee. Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle the horses and call up the men, Come open your gates, and let me gae free, For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Page 78 - There are hills beyond Pentland, and lands beyond Forth, If there's lords in the Lowlands, there's chiefs in the North; There are wild Duniewassals three thousand times three, Will cry hoigh ! for the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.
Page 8 - Now all whom varied toil and care From home and love divide, In the calm sunset may repair Each to the loved one's side. The noble dame on turret high, Who waits her gallant knight, Looks to the western beam to spy The flash of armour bright. The village maid, with hand on brow The level ray to shade, Upon the footpath watches now For Colin's darkening plaid. Now to their mates the wild swans row, By day they swam apart, And to the thicket wanders slow The hind beside the hart. The woodlark at his...
Page 77 - Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat; But the Provost, douce man, said, 'Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel quit of that Deil of Dundee.