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The 

Scots

Vocal Miscellany.

A Choice Collection

of the most celebrated 

SONGS

Ancient and Modern:

May of which never before in Print.

Likewise a Variety of Favourite

Catches and Glees,

with

Toasts and Sentiments.

Music has charms to soot a savage breast,

To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.

I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd,

And as with living souls, have been inform'd 

By magic numbers, and persuasive found.

Congreave.

Edinburgh:

Printed and sold by J. [James] Roch, at his Printing
house, Luckenbooths, and by all Booksellers
in Town and Country.

M.DCC.LXXX [1780]

[page 202]

May we always be able to resist the assaults of prosperity and adversity.

May virtue be always amply rewarded.

May candor and honesty always be our governing principles.

May our conscience be sound, though our fortune be rotten.

May temptation never conquer virtue.

May virtue always prove victorious.

May temporal concerns never break in upon spiritual duty.

May power be influenced only by justice.

May we never taste the apples of affliction.

May we be rich in friends rather than money.

May we be loved by those whom we love.

May he who wants friendship, also want friends.

May our distinguishing mark be merit rather than money.

May hemp bind him whom honour can't.

May we be incorruptible by interest, and uninfluenced by power.

May authority be amiable without debasing its dignity. 

May we never seek applause from party principles, but always deserve it from public spirit.

May we, as Christians, be zealous without uncharitableness; as subjects, loyal without fervility; and as citizens, free without faction.

Sensibility without inequality, and passions without vehemence.

May our hearts have for tenants, truth, candor and benevolence.

May our virtues be rather the effects of religion than the gifts of nature.

May we never be influence by jealousy, or governed by interest.

May ability for doing good be equaled by inclination.

May our benevolence be bounded only by our fortune.

May those who inherit the title of gentlemen by birth, deserve it by their behavior.

May fortune be always an attendant on virtue.

May we never praise any man to undo him.

May we never destroy any person's credit to establish our own.

May we never set our friend to sale, or our conscience to hire.

May we never swear a tradesman out of his dues, or a credulous girl out of her virtue.

May Providence unite the hearts that love.

May honour and honesty always triumph over vanity and hypocrisy.

More friends, and lass need of them.

Health of body, peace of mind, a clean shirt, and a guinea.

Riches to the generous, and power to the merciful.

May an honest heart never feel distress.

May our life, spent in acts of virtue, be finished by death, seasoned with tranquility, and followed by a memory full of honour.

May our pleasant thought be gilt with modest expressions.

May mirth and good fellowship be always in fashion.

May he that made the devil take us all.

Perpetual spring to friendship, youth, and love.

May we never want a friend, and a bottle to give him. [pg 203]

Love in a cottage, and envy to none.

May we have in our arms whom we love in our hearts.

May they never want who have a spirit to spend.

All true hearts and sound bottoms.

Success to our hopes, and enjoyment to our wishes.

Constancy in love, and sincerity in friendship.

Friendship without interest, and love without deceit.

May he who has neither wife, mistress, nor estate in Scotland, never have any share in the government of ti.

A cobweb pair of breeches, a porcupine saddle, a hard trotting horse, and a long journey to all the enemies of Scotland.

Success to the fair sex in all their undertakings.

Good luck till w'er tir'd of it.

Sense to win a heart, and merit to keep it.

Delicate pleasure to susceptible minds.

May the single be married, and the married happy.

Health in freedom, and content in bondage.

Every man his right, and every rogue a halter.

All that love can give, or sensibility enjoy.

Health an success to the bucks of Edinburgh.

May the eveing's diversion bear the morning's reflection.

May the wings of extravagancy be clipp'd by the scissors of economy.

May our endeavours be always successful when engaged under the banner of justice.

May we never speak to deceive, or listen to betray.

the honest north-country smith, who refused to shoe for the man who voted against his country.

Honour and influence to the public-spirited patrons of trade.

Long corns and short shoes to all the enemies of Scotland.

May our representative, like free masons, be elected by ballot.

May we be always able to distinguish those, who, by a steady and uniform adherence to heir duty, distinguish themselves.

Liberty property, and no excise.

May we always have a friend, and know his value.

Union, stability, and fidelity among the songs of liberty.

Success to the lover, honour to the brave.
Health to the sick, and freedom to the slave.

I, Friend, drink to thee, Friend,
As this Friend drank to me, Friend;
And as this Friend charged me, Friend,
That I should drink to thee, Friend;
I, Friend, charge thee, Friend,
That thou, Friend, drink to that Friend:
And the longer that we drink, Friends,
The merrier we shall be, Friends.

Here's a health to all those that love this*,  [Footnote] * Holding a glass in the hand.
Here's a health to all those that love this,
Here's a health to all those that love them that love those,
That love those the love them that love this.   

[compare this with the 1779 st.cecilia version]

May reason be the pilot, where passion blows the gale,
And prudence the cockswain when love fills the sail.

Life to the man who has courage to lose it,
And wealth to him who has spirit to use it.

May every day be happier than the past,
And every hour merrier than the last.

The ruling passion, be what it will,
The ruling passion governs nature still.

May each married lady preserve her goodman;
And young ladies get husbands as soon as they can.

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