A garland of new songs. : Tweed side; My Nanie, O; Highland laddie; Up in the morning early; Flowers of the forest

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Title: A garland of new songs. : Tweed side; My Nanie, O; Highland laddie; Up in the morning early; Flowers of the forest
Contributor: Marshall, John (Printer of Newcastle upon Tyne), printer.
Published / Created: [between 1800 and 1831]
Publication Place: Newcastle upon Tyne and England Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, Where may also be had, a large and curious assortment of songs, ballads, tales, histories, &c.
Description: Title from first page.
Undated. Date range from trading dates of John Marshall, cf. The British book trade index.
A chapbook.
Without music.
Crude woodcut title vignette of man and woman in a landscape.
Laid paper. Horizontal chain lines.
First lines of Tweed side: "What beauties does Flora disclose!"
First lines of My Nanie, o: "Behind yon hills where Lugar flows, 'Mang moors an' mosses many O, The wintry sun the day has clos'd, and I'll away to Nanie, O."
First lines of Highland laddie: "The Lawland lads think they are fine; But O, they're vain and idly gaudy!"
First lines of Up in the morning early: "Cauld blaws the win' frae north to south, And drift is driving fairly; The sheep are couring i' the heugh, O firs! it's winter fairly."
First lines of Flowers of the forest: "I've heard of a lilting at our ewes milking, Lasses a' lilting before the break of day; But now there's a moaning on ilka green loaning, That our braw Foresters are a' wede away."
Not in ESTC.
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Provenance: Antiquates; April 2021.
Extent: 8 pages : 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English