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The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6

Note 97 — ROBERT MACKAY (ROB DONN).

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"Unsummon'd of thee." The idea is rather quaintly expressed in the original thus—"Though thou hast sent me no summons, love has, of his own accord, acted the part of a catchpole (or sheriff's officer), and will not release me." Such are the homely fancies introduced into some of the most passionate strains of the Gaelic muse.

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