Annotation:Secret Kiss by Mr. Oswald (The)
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SECRET KISS BY MR. OSWALD, THE. AKA - "Stolen Kiss (The)." Scottish, Air. Cellist-composer wikipedia:James_Oswald_(composer) (1710-1769) set the music "Stolen Kiss (The)" (song No. 2 in his twelve-song collection "Colin's Kisses", 1742), to verses by Robert Dodsley. Each song was named after a type of kiss - "The Meeting Kiss," "The Stolen Kiss," The Parting Kiss," etc. Shortly after Oswald first published this collection it was criticized by some as scandalous, requiring him to address the issue in later advertisements where he wrote: "The Report so industriously spread, that these songs are not proper for the Ladies to sing, is as false as it is scandalous; there being nothing in the Words of Sentiments that can offend the most delicate". Dodsley words for "The Stolen Kiss" begin:
On a mossy bank reclin'd.
Beauteous Chloe lay reposing,
O’er her breast each am'rous wind
Wanton play'd, its sweets disclosing:
Tempted with the dwelling charms,
Colin, happy swain, drew nigh her,
Softly stole into her arms,
Laid his scrip and sheep-hook by her.
By the time the tune was published in Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (c. 1752), the title had been altered to "The Secret Kiss."
