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[ was an old song even in Ramsay's days, as it was marked with a Z in the first volume of ia Miscellany. The title there given to it is "For the love of Jean," which must have some relation to another song to the same tune. "Jocky and Jenny," says Mr. Robert Chambers, "were names which, for a long period previous to the early part of the last century, acted as general titles for every Scottish pair in humble life. The male name, in particular, was then invariably used by the English as appropriate to the personified idea of a Scotsman—exactly as Sandy is used at the present day."]

[ is an improved version of an old song supposed to have been written by Tom D'Urfey, towards the close of the 17th century, and entitled Twas within a furlong of Edinborough town." The old air is to be found in Oswald's collection: the air now in use is the composition of Mr. James Hook, father of the late Theodore Hook. The words here given are from the first volume of Johnson's Museum, 1787.]

[ tune of "O'er the hills and far away" is a very old Scottish melody. We find it mentioned by Pepys in the days of Charles the Second. It is also selected by Gay for one of his songs in the Beggar's Opera, "Were I laid on Greenland's coast." The song here given is, with the exception of the chorus, not properly a Scottish production, being rather a London imitaticn of Scottish song, brought out about the beginning of the last century, and published with the music in the "Pills to Purge Melancholy," (2d edition, 1709) where it is called "Jocky's Lamentation." Ramsay adopts the song in his Miscellany, with some verbal alterations.]

met with Jenny fair,

Aft by the dawning of the day;

But Jocky now is full of care,

Since Jenny staw his heart away.