INSCRIPTION FOR THE MONUMENT OF THE REV. GEORGE SCOTT George Scott was the son of Hugh Scott of Harden. He died at Kentisbeare, in Devonshire, where he was rector of the church, in 1830. The verses are on his tomb. To youth, to age, alike, this tablet pale own? WHEN the tempest 's at the loudest Gnawing want and sickness pining, Bar me from each wonted pleasure, V BONNY DUNDEE AIR- The Bonnets of Bonny Dundee' To the Lords of Convention 't was Clav. er'se who spoke, 'Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns to be broke; So let each Cavalier who loves honor and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses and call up your men; Come open the West Port and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee !' Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat; a clever piece of handiwork, and Sir Walter felt at first great relief from the use of it: inasmuch that his spirits rose to quite the old pitch, and his letter to me upon the occasion overflows with merry applications of sundry maxims and verses about Fortune. "Fortes Fortuna adjuvat " — he says sing I!" Lockhart, Chapter lxxix. The first stanza is an old Elizabethan song. The second, Scott's palinode, appears to be his last effort in verse. The incident was in February, 1831. 66 - never more FORTUNE, my Foe, why dost thou frown on me ? And will my Fortune never better be? |