The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire
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Excerpt from The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire: Illustrated With Sketches, Historical, Traditional, Narrative and Biographical Renfrewshire has her Harp - why not Ayrshire her Lyre? The land that gave birth to Burns may well claim the distinction of a separate Repository for the Ballads and Songs which belong to it. In this, the First Series, it has been the chief object of the Editor to gather together the older lyrical productions connected with the county, intermixed with a slight sprinkling of the more recent, by way of lightsome variation. The aim of the work is to collect those pieces, ancient and modern, which, scattered throughout various publications, are inaccessible to many readers; and to glean from oral recitation the floating relics of a former age that still exist in living remembrance, as well as to supply such information respecting the subject or author as maybe deemed interesting. The songs of Burns - save, perhaps, a few of the more rare - having been already collected in numerous editions, and consequently well known, will i form no part of the Repository. In distinguishing the Ballads and Songs? of Ayrshire, the Editor has been, and will be, guided by the connection they have with the district, either as to the author or subject; and now that the First Series is before the public, he trusts that, whatever I may be its defects, the credit at least will be given him of aiming, however feebly, at the construction of a lasting monument of the lyrical I literature of Ayrshire. He hopes farther, should encouragement be vouchsafed to go on with the collection, that all interested in the labour I he has imposed upon himself, and who have it in their power, will be willing to assist by "throwing a stone to the cairn." Ayrshire has probably been more deficient in musical composers than in poets, or ballad writers. Amongst the earliest of the latter, of whom we find any notice, is "the gude Schir Hew of Eglintoun," mentioned in Dunbar´s "Lament for the Death of the Makars," which poem must have been written before 1508, when it appeared in Millar and Chepman´s Miscellany. Schir Hew is understood to have been the last of the old Eglintons of Eglinton, whose daughter was espoused by John de Montgomerie I of Egleshame. He is conjectured to have written the romances "of Arthur" and "Gawan," and the "Epistle of Susanna," pieces not known - their names only being preserved in Wintoun´s Chronicle. Walter Kennedy is another of the Ayrshire "Makars" mentioned in Dunbar´s Lament - "Gud Maister Walter Kennedy, In poynt of dede lyis veraly, Gret reuth it wer that so suld be; Timor Mortis Conturbat me. Some particulars of Kennedy and his writings will be found in the following pages. So of Montgomerie, author of the "Cherrie and the Slae," Hamilton of Gilbertfield, &c. In later times Ayrshire can boast of the I name of Burns, Boswell, and a host of living "Makars," who, when the flight of time has thrown a halo round their memories, will be regarded as writers of no common merit. Fate has not been so favourable to our composers of music as to our "Makars" of poetry. Few of the names of the earlier race of them are I even known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the
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