One tome miscellaneous they'll add to your store,

Resolving next year to print four volumes

more.

Four volumes more, my friends, four volumes more;

Pay down your subscriptions for four volumes more.

COUNTY GUY

From Chapter iv. of Quentin Durward, published in 1823.

AH! County Guy, the hour is nigh,

The sun has left the lea,

The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.

The lark his lay who thrilled all day
Sits hushed his partner nigh;

Breeze, bird, and flower confess the hour,
But where is County Guy?

I've seen the day they would been scaured
Wi' the Tolbooth or wi' the Guard,
Or maybe wud hae some regard
For Jamie Laing

The Water-hole was right weel wared
On sic a gang.

But whar's the gude Tolbooth gane now? Whar's the auld Claught, wi' red and blue?

Whar's Jamie Laing? and whar's John Doo?

And whar's the Weigh-house? Deil hae't I see but what is new,

Except the Playhouse!

Yoursells are changed frae head to heel, There 's some that gar the causeway

reel

With clashing hufe and rattling wheel, And horses canterin',

Wha's fathers' daundered hame as weel Wi' lass and lantern.

I look for howfs I kenned lang syne,
Whar gentles used to drink gude wine
And eat cheap dinners;

But deil a soul gangs there to dine
Of saints or sinners!

When Scott was collecting his stray poems for a definitive edition, he wrote thus to Constable, October 22, 1824: 'I recovered the above with some difficulty. I believe it was never spoken, but written for some play, afterwards withdrawn, in which Mrs. H. Siddons was to have spoken it in the character of Queen Mary:'

THE sages
Seneca's morals or the copy-book -
The sages to disparage woman's power,
Say beauty is a fair but fading flower;
I cannot tell I've small philosophy -
Yet if it fades it does not surely die,
But, like the violet, when decayed in

for authority, pray, look

bloom,

Survives through many a year in rich perfame.

Witness our theme to-night; two ages gone, A third wanes fast, since Mary filled the

throne.

Brief was her bloom with scarce one sunny day

Twixt Pinkie's field and fatal Fotherin

gay: