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Description: | This is the manuscript Burns wrote to give to Stewart & Meikle, the publishers of its first twopenny edition. The Cantata is a series of tales influenced by John Gay's Beggars Opera and other works. Burns relates the life stories of eight local vagabonds assembled in a Mauchline Inn in a loquacious and jolly mood. (poem no 84)
When at Mossgeil in 1785 Burns and friend John Richmond visited an Inn in Mauchline where they experienced the inebriated setting and vagabond characters which inspired this work. It was his only attempt at a longer work capable of being staged.
In Page 12 we see the tinker gets the woman who sinks in his arms, overcome with emotion and drink. The little fiddler is a good looser and drinks their health. However he later fondles her behind the chicken coop. We are then introduced to a rheumatic Bard (Burns?) a daring drinking man who fell in love easily. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1785-01-01 - 1785-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'The Jolly Beggars | Go to resource |
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