"_Talk not of Love_" (Vol. iii., pp. 7.77.).--In answering the Query of
A. M. respecting this pleasing little song, your correspondents have
neglected to mention that the earliest copy of it, _i.e._ that in Johnson's
_Scots Musical Museum_, has _two_ additional stanzas. This is important,
because, from No. 8. of Burns's _Letters to Clarinda_, it appears that the
concluding lines were supplied by Burns himself to suit the music. He
remarks that--
"The latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho.
I am in raptures with it."
{198} Mrs. Mac Lehose (_Clarinda_) was living in 1840, in the eightieth
year of her age.