Anonymous

“ There wilt thou come and meet thy love,
⁠Thy bonny Andrew Lammie.
"When wilt thou come and I'll attend,
⁠My love I long to see thee?"
"Thou may'st come to the Bridge of Sleugh,
⁠And there I'll come and meet thee. ”

“ If a woman, who could boast of having had an intrigue with the Trumpeter of Fyvie, was hale and hearty at the time when Allan wrote, we may reasonably suppose poor Tiftie's Nanny, to have died sometime about the year 1670." This conjecturc, as to the period when
"The fairest Flower was cut down by love,
That e'er sprung up in Fyvie,"
is very near the truth, if the notice contained in the title of the stall copy referred to can be admitted as evidence on the point. ”

“ The ill-starred loves of Tiftie's bonnie Annie, and the Trumpeter of Fyvie, have already been made familiar to the reader of Ballad poetry by Mr. Jamieson, who has published in his collection two different sets of this simple but not unpathetic ditty. [1] Neither of these sets, however, is so complete as the present version, which is a reprint from a stall copy published at Glasgow several years ago, collated with a recited copy, which has furnished one or two verbal improvements. ”