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[—Tune, "Gilderoy."—The heroine of this song, some say, was Elizabeth Miller, one of the "Mauchline Belles;" others avow that she was Elizabeth Black, afterwards Mrs. Stewart, a vintner in Alva; while John Gait is of opinion that the real lady was a relative of his own, named Elizabeth Barbour.]