In the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, the young shepherd Patie and his sweetheart Peggy court in Scots verse and song, while friends quarrel and make up and a secret about Patie’s birth waits to be revealed. Ramsay’s pastoral comedy was printed again and again for a century; this American edition follows the subscription quarto of 1728, with notes.
A founding work of the Scots literary revival that led to Burns, warm, tuneful and still very readable. Download the free EPUB.