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During the eighteenth century, when Edinburgh was almost more completely the centre of society than ever before, the old tunes were sung by ladies as much as by maid-servants, and the delicate old spinets performed a soft accompaniment to ballads of the "Ewebuchting" and of the "Corn Rigs," and prolonged the pathetic notes of "Waly, waly" and the trembling wail of the "Flowers of the Forest" in the finest houses as in the humblest.
She was glad to see him rise and go to the inner room, glad to hear that he bolted the door after him. For in that temper it was better that John should complain to God than talk with any human being. "Oh, waly waly, but love be bonny A little while while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades away like morning dew."
"Justice has a voice as weel as mercy. O waly, waly!" cried the wretched old man, going back to the pathetic Gælic of his childhood, "O waly, waly! to think o' the sin and the shame o' it. Plenty o' Callendars hae died before their time, but it has been wi' their faces to their foes and their claymores in their hands. O Davie, Davie! my lad, my lad! My Davie!"
The Pasha styles himself not only Waly or governor of Djidda, but of Sowakin and Habesh; and in support of this title, keeps custom- house officers at Sowakin and Massoua, which, prior to the government of Mohammed Aly, were entirely dependent on the sherif.
Our monarch's hindmost year but ane Was five and twenty days began; 'Twas then a blast o' Januar' win' Blew hansel in on Robin. For Robin was, etc. The gossip keekit in his loof, Quo' she, wha lives will see the proof, This waly boy will be nae coof; I think we'll ca' him Robin. For Robin was, etc.
"To-day I called on my lady: she was perfectly civil, for a wonder." "Edward Irving! The past is past and gone is gone O waly, waly, love is bonnie, A little while when it is new;"
I wouldna hae thocht wi' her bringing up she could hae swithered for a moment but it's the auld, auld story; where the deil canna go by himsel' he sends a woman. And David Lockerby will tyne his inheritance for a pair o' blue e'en and a handfu' o' gowden curls. Waly! waly! but the children o' Esau live for ever." "Mary said," "I dinna want to hear what Mary said.
"But had I wist, before I lost, That love had been sae ill to win; I had lockt my heart in a case of gowd And pinn'd it with a siller pin.... O waly! waly! but love be bonny A little time while it is new, But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld, And fades awa' like morning dew!" This was the song George heard, trembling and dying to the chords of the fine piano that was a little out of tune.
'O waly, waly, up yon bank, And waly, waly, doon yon brae. It was printed first in Jamieson's collection 1806; again in Chambers's, p. 150. The 'waly' has been by Cockney critics called Scotch for 'wail ye. The word may come from the same etymological source as 'wail, but it is a Scots adverb, indicative of the intensity of sorrow.
"Ah, but that was a fine family I lived wi' in Glasgy; an' it's a wearifu' day's work I've had the day." We. 'Oh why was I spared to cry, Wae's me! She. "Why dinna they leave floo'rs i' the garden makin' a mess i' the hoose wi' 'em? It's not for the knowin' what they will be after next!" We. 'Oh, waly waly up the bank, And waly waly doon the brae!
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