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582 While birds rejoice in leafy bowers:

While bees delight in op'ning flowers;

While corn grows green in summer showers,

I'll love my gallant weaver.

[ was a popular song during the early part of last century, and may be quoted as a favourable specimen of the fashionable pastoral which then prevailed. The author,, , eldest son of Thomas sixth earl of Haddington, was born in the year 1696, and died at Naples in 1732.]

[ is generally ascribed to, "the great marquis of Montrose," who was executed at Edinburgh by the covenanting party, on the 21st May, 1650. It appears in Watson's Choice Collection of Scots Poems, Edinburgh 1711, where is also given what is called a Second Part, consisting of thirteen stanzas, but seemingly written by another hand. Among Cavaliers and Jacobites it was much admired, and used to be sung to the old tune of "Chevy Chace."]

dear and only love, I pray

That little world of thee

Be govern'd by no other sway,

But purest monarchy:

For if confusion have na [sic] part,

Which virtuous souls abhor,

I'll call a synod in my heart

And never love thee more.

As Alexander I will reign,

And I will reign alone,

My thoughts did evermore disdain

A rival on my throne.

He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

Who dares not put it to the touch,

To gain or lose it all.