Queen Mary's lamentation : to which are added, The orange and blue, Lord Gregory, Tak' your auld cloke about ye, and The sailor's return.
Bibliographic Citation:
Queen Mary's lamentation : to which are added, The orange and blue, Lord Gregory, Tak' your auld cloke about ye, and The sailor's return. Glasgow : Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by R. Hutchison, bookseller, 19 Saltmarket, 1823.
Alternative Title:
The orange and blue.
Lord Gregory.
Tak' your auld cloke about ye.
The sailor's return.
Publisher:
Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by R. Hutchison, bookseller, 19 Saltmarket, 1823.
Notes:
  • In verse.
  • Title page included in pagination.
  • First two lines of Queen Mary's lamentation: "I sing and lament me in vain, these walls can but echo my moan."
  • First two lines of The orange and the blue: "It was on a Monday morning, as I was going to Mass."
  • First line of Lord Gregory: "O mirk, mirk, is this midnight hour."
  • First line of "Tak' your auld cloke about ye: "In winter when the rain rain'd ca-uld."
  • First line of The sailor's return: "Behold from many a hostile shore."
  • Woodcut on title page.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 18 cm.
Language:

Subject:
Songs, Scots -- Texts.
Chapbooks, Scottish -- Specimens.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century.
Chapbook Category:
Song Books
Call Number:
PN970 H88 Q44 1823 Rare Books/Special Collections
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
Rebound in brown cloth; the first title (16 cm.) of a collection of 20 Scottish chapbooks with binder's title "Chap books" in 2 lines on spine label lettered in gilt; 3 of the chapbooks are parts of the same publication, and 2 titles are duplicated. With 19 other chapbooks; bound together subsequent to publication.
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=10626
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H88_Q44_1823_004002585