[Footnote C: See the _Gay Goss Hawk._]



NOTES ON SCOTTISH MUSIC, AN ODE.

_Far in the green isle of the west._--P. 103. v. 2.
The _Flathinnis_, or Celtic paradise.

_Ah! sure, as Hindú legends tell._--P. 104. v. 1.

The effect of music is explained by the Hindús, as recalling to our
memory the airs of paradise, heard in a state of pre-existence--_Vide_
Sacontala.

_Did "Bathwell's banks that bloom so fair."_--P. 106. v. 3.

"So fell it out of late years, that an English gentleman, travelling in
Palestine, not far from Jerusalem, as he passed through a country town,
he heard, by chance, a woman sitting at her door, dandling her child, to
sing, _Bothwel bank thou blumest fair_. The gentleman hereat wondered,
and forthwith, in English, saluted the woman, who joyfully answered him;
and said, she was right glad there to see a gentleman of our isle: and
told him, that she was a Scottish woman, and came first from Scotland to
Venice, and from Venice thither, where her fortune was to be the wife of
an officer under the Turk; who being at that instant absent, and very
soon to return, she entreated the gentleman to stay there until his
return. The which he did; and she, for country sake, to shew herself the
more kind and bountiful unto him, told her husband, at his home-coming,
that the gentleman was her kinsman; whereupon her husband entertained