Charles Sedley, The Book of Scottish Song (1843)
“ Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd, as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I this dawning did admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought that rising fire Would take my rest away. ”
Charles Sedley, The Book of Scottish Song (1843)
“ It has also been copied into most other Scottish collections of songs, and ascribed to President Forbes of Culloden. Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, however, has recently discovered it to belong to Sir Charley's Sedley's play of the Mulberry Tree, which was printed in 1675, before President Forbes was born. It can therefore no longer be admitted with propriety into any Scottish collection, and is only reprinted here for the purpose of correcting a long established error. ”
