Note 1 — LEGENDS.
Reading edition
In Lockhart's Life of Scott, this renowned Song is attributed to "the poetical Dean of Cork" (Dr. Burrowes, who wrote "The Night before Larry was stretched"), but really was written by Milliken, a poetical lawyer of whom Maguire says (O'Doherty Papers, vol. ii., p. 181) that not even Christopher North himself—
"Be he tipsy or sober, Was not more than his match, in wine, wisdom, or wit."