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a bank with balmy bews, Where nightingales their notes renews
 * With gallant goldspinks gay;

The mavis, merle, and proud, The lintwhite lark, and laverock loud,
 * Saluted mirthful May:

When had sweetly sung,
 * To she deplor'd,

How cut out her tongue,
 * And falsely her deflower'd;
 * Which story, sae sorry,
 * To shew herself she seem'd;
 * To hear her, sae near her,
 * I doubted if I dream'd.

The Publisher has carefully consulted Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, from which the rest of Montgomery's Poems e taken. Ramsay's Evergreen, and two copies of the Cherrie  the Slae, one printed at Kilmarnock in 1782, by John Wilson, and the other by Robert Foulis the celebrated Printer  Glasgow, 1746.

This Edition is taken from two curious old ones, the first printed by Robert Walgrave, the King's Printer, in 1597, to a Copy corrected by the Author himself, the other by dro Hart, printed 1615, said on the Title Page to be newly ered, perfyted, and divided into 114 Quatuorzeims, not long  the Author's Death.