Footnotes
[427:2] This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott has mentioned that the only time he saw Burns this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found.—Lockhart: Life of Scott, vol. i. chap. iv.
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. 1735-1787.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.
There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sung from morn till night:
No lark more blithe than he.
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,—
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.[427:3]
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
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Young fellows will be young fellows.
Love in a Village. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1.