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''Gow and Time are Even Now,''<br> | ''Gow and Time are Even Now,''<br> | ||
''Gow Beat Time and Time Beat Gow.''<br> | ''Gow Beat Time and Time Beat Gow.''<br> | ||
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The witticism, however, long predates Niel. Richard Baldwin's periodical '''The London Magazine''' of October, 1749, printed a few pages of "Humourous Epitaphs", among which can be found (on p. 495): | |||
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''On Stephen, the Fidler.'' [sic]<br> | |||
''Old Time and Stephen are now even,''<br> | |||
''Stephen beat Time, and Time has beat Stephen.''<br> | |||
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NIEL GOW. See also spellings "Neil Gow" and "Neal Gow." Gow himself insisted on the spelling 'Niel' for his name.
AKA – “Neil Gow," "Niel Gow's Reel (2).” AKA and see "Irish Jig", "Keep Your Country Bonnie Lasses" (Shetland) {?}, "Niel Gow's Strathspey." Scottish (originally), English; Strathspey. England, Northumberland. A Major (most versions): G Major (Peacock, Surenne): D Major (Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow): AABB (Carlin/Gow, Honeyman, Kennedy, Kerr, Lowe, Peacock). Composed by the most famous of Scots fiddler-composers, Niel Gow (1727-1807), Dunkeld, Perthshire. It is worth remembering Gow’s wry epitaph, inscribed on his gravestone:
Gow and Time are Even Now,
Gow Beat Time and Time Beat Gow.
The witticism, however, long predates Niel. Richard Baldwin's periodical The London Magazine of October, 1749, printed a few pages of "Humourous Epitaphs", among which can be found (on p. 495):
On Stephen, the Fidler. [sic]
Old Time and Stephen are now even,
Stephen beat Time, and Time has beat Stephen.
