"_Talk not of Love_" (Vol. iii., p. 7.).--The song quoted by your Querist,
A. M., was written by Mrs. MacLehose, the "Clarinda" of Burns, and is to be
found in most of the lives of the Scottish poet.
[J.H., JR., says it is printed in Chambers's _Journal_, No. 1. New
Series. DANIEL FERGUSON points them out at p. 212. of a _Collection of
Songs of England and Scotland_, published by Cochrane, of Waterloo
Place; and in vol. ii. of Johnson's _Scots Musical Museum_; and G.T.
also refers to the last-named collection.]
_The Butcher Duke_ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--The song referred to by MEZZOTINTO
is to be found in most of the collections of Scotch songs, under the name
of "Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie," for which old air it was written; or,
when only partially printed, by the commencing line of one of its
stanzas:--
"Geordie sits in Charlie's chair."
It is one of the numerous Jacobite songs composed either about 1715, by
some one "out in the Fifteen," or later by a poet of "the Forty-five." The
author's name is unknown. In the collection of Scottish songs, published by
Robert Chambers in 1829, the song, consisting of no less than twenty-two
stanzas, will be found at p. 367.
[L.M.M.R. has also kindly transcribed the song from the _Scots Musical
Museum;_ and DR. C., of Newcastle, who says "it is well known in the
remoter districts of Northumberland," obligingly offers to furnish
MEZZOTINTO with a copy, if he should desire it.]
_Curfew_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.).--_The Curfew_ is rung at Handsworth, near
Sheffield.