For on the land, or on the sea, Where'er the breezes blaw that, The British Flag shall bear the grie, And win the day for a' that! LINES, 1 ADDRESSED TO MONSIEUR ALEXANDRE, THE Or yore, in old England, it was not thought good What should folks say to you? who have faces such plenty, That from under one hood, you last night show'd us twenty! Stand forth, arch-deceiver, and tell us in truth, Are you handsome or ugly, in age or in youth? ["When Monsieur Alexandre, the celebrated ventriloquist, was in Scotland, in 1824, he paid a visit to Abbotsford, where he entertained his distinguished host, and the other visiters, with his unrivalled imitations. Next morning, when he was about to depart, Sir Walter felt a good deal embarrassed as to the sort of acknowledgment he should offer; but at length, resolving that it would probably be most agreeable to the young foreigner to be paid in professional coin, if in any, he stepped aside for a few minutes, and, on returning, presented him with this Epigram. The reader need hardly be reminded, that Sir Walter Scott held the office of Sheriff of the County of Selkirk."— Scotch Newspaper, 1830.] Each live thing, did I ask?—each dead implement, too, But I think you're a troop—an assemblage-a mob, CARLE, NOW THE KING'S COME!' BEING NEW WORDS TO AN AULD SPRING. THE news has flown frae mouth to mouth, Carle, now the King's come! CHORUS. Carle, now the King's come! Carle, now the King's come! Thou shalt dance, and I will sing, Carle, now the King's come! '[The lines, with this date, appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register, of 1824.] 2 [This imitation of an old Jacobite ditty was written on the appearance, in the Frith of Forth, of the fleet which conveyed his Majesty King George the Fourth to Scotland, in August, 1822, and was published as a broadside.] Auld England held him lang and fast; But Scotland's turn is come at last- Auld Reekic, in her rokelay grey, But, Carle, now the King's come! She's skirling frae the Castle-hill; 66 Carle, now the King's come! Up, bairns!" she cries, "baith grit and sma', And busk ye for the weapon-shaw! Stand by me, and we'll bang them a'— Come from Newbattle's ancient spires, Carle, now the King's come! You're welcome hame, my Montagu! Bring in your hand the young Buccleuch ;- 66 Carle, now the King's come!' Come, Haddington, the kind and gay, You've graced my causeway mony a day; [Lord Montagu, uncle and guardian to the young Duke of Buccleuch, placed his Grace's residence of Dalkeith at his Majesty's disposal during his visit to Scotland.] 2 I'll weep the cause if you should stay- "Come, premier Duke, and carry doun But, Carle, now the King's come! "Come, Athole, from the hill and wood, "Come, Tweeddale, true as sword to sheath; "Come, Wemyss, who modest merit aids; 1[Charles, the tenth Earl of Haddington, died in 1828.] [The Duke of Hamilton, as Earl of Angus, carried the ancient royal crown of Scotland on horseback in King George's procession, from Holyrood to the Castle, Edinburgh, August, 1822.] The Castle. * Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik, Bart. The Baron of Pennycuik is bound by his tenure, whenever the King comes to Edinburgh, to receive him at the Harestone, (in which the standard of James IV. was erected when his army encamped on the Boroughmuir, before his fatal expedition to England,) now built into the pork-wall at the end of Tipperlin Lone, near the Boroughmuir-head; and, standing thereon, to give three blasts on a horn. "Come, stately Niddric, auld and true, "King Arthur's grown a common crier, Carle, now the King's come!" The Carline stopp'd: and, sure I am, Cogie, now the King's come! Cogie, now the King's come! PART SECOND. A HAWICK gill of mountain dew, It minded her of Waterloo Carle, now the King's come! '[As seen from the west, the ridge of Arthur's Seat bears a marked resemblance to a lion couchant.] *[Mr. Oman, landlord of the Waterloo Hotel.] 'Empty. |