Scene III — The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay | Read Online

Act V Scene III

Sir William fills the twa-arm’d chair,
      While Symon, Roger, Glaud and Mause,
  Attend, and with loud laughter hear
      Daft Bauldy bluntly plead his cause:
  For now ’tis tell’d him that the taz
      Was handled by revengefu’ Madge,
  Because he brak good breeding’s laws,
      And with his nonsense rais’d their rage.

Sir William, Patie, Roger, Symon, Glaud, Bauldy and Mause.

Sir William.

And was that all?—Well, Bauldy, ye was serv’d
No otherwise than what ye well deserv’d.
Was it so medium a matter, to defame,
And thus abuse an honest woman’s name?
Besides your going about to have betray’d
By perjury an innocent young maid.

Baul. Sir, I confess my faut thro’ a’ the steps,
And ne’er again shall be untrue to Neps.

Mause. Thus far, Sir, he oblig’d me on the score;
I kend not that they thought me sic before.

Baul. An’t like your Honour, I believ’d it well;
But trowth I was e’en doilt to seek the deil:
Yet, with your Honour’s leave, tho’ she’s nae Witch,
She’s baith a slee and a revengefu’——
And that my Some-place finds;—but I had best
Had in my tongue; for yonder comes the Ghaist,
And the young bonny Witch, whase rosy cheek
Sent me, without my wit, the deil to seek.

Enter Madge, Peggy and Jenny.
Sir Will. [looking at Peggy.] Whose daughter’s she that wears th’ Aurora gown,
With face so fair, and locks a lovely brown?
How sparkling are her eyes! What’s this! I find
The girl brings all my sister to my mind.
Such were the features once adorn’d a face,
Which death too soon depriv’d of sweetest grace.
Is this your daughter, Glaud?——

Glaud. ——Sir, she’s my niece;—
And yet she’s not:—but I should hald my peace.

Sir Will. This is a contradiction: What d’ye mean?
She is, and is not! Pray thee, Glaud, explain.

Glaud. Because I doubt, if I should make appear }
What I have kept a secret thirteen year. }

Mause. You may reveal what I can fully clear. }

Sir Will. Speak soon; I’m all impatience!—

Pat. ——So am I!
For much I hope, and hardly yet know why.

Glaud. Then, since my master orders, I obey.
This Bonny Fundling, ae clear morn of May,
Close by the lee-side of my door I found,
All sweet and clean, and carefully hapt round,
In infant-weeds of rich and gentle make.
What cou’d they be, thought I, did thee forsake?
Wha, warse than brutes, cou’d leave expos’d to air
Sae much of innocence sae sweetly fair,
Sae helpless young? for she appear’d to me
Only about twa towmands auld to be.
I took her in my arms, the bairnie smil’d
With sic a look wad made a savage mild.
I hid the story: She has pass’d sincesyne
As a poor orphan, and a niece of mine.
Nor do I rue my care about the we’an,
For she’s well worth the pains that I have tane.
Ye see she’s bonny, I can swear she’s good,
And am right sure she’s come of gentle blood:
Of whom I kenna.—Nathing ken I mair,
Than what I to your Honour now declare.

Sir Will. This tale seems strange!——

Pat. ——The tale delights my ear:

Sir Will. Command your joys, young man, till truth appear.

Mause. That be my task.—Now, Sir, bid all be hush:
Peggy may smile;—thou hast nae cause to blush.
Long have I wish’d to see this happy day,
That I might safely to the truth give way;
That I may now Sir William Worthy name,
The best and nearest friend that she can claim:
He saw’t at first, and with quick eye did trace
His sister’s beauty in her daughter’s face.

Sir Will. Old woman, do not rave,—prove what you say;
’Tis dangerous in affairs like this to play.

Pat. What reason, Sir, can an old woman have
To tell a lie, when she’s sae near her grave?
But how, or why, it should be truth, I grant,
I every thing looks like a reason want.

Omnes. The story’s odd! we wish we heard it out.

Sir Will. Mak haste, good woman, and resolve each doubt.

[Mause goes forward, leading Peggy to Sir William.]
Mause. Sir, view me well: Has fifteen years so plow’d
A wrinkled face that you have often view’d,
That here I as an unknown stranger stand, }
Who nurs’d her mother that now holds my hand? }
Yet stronger proofs I’ll give, if you demand. }

Sir Will. Ha! honest nurse, where were my eyes before?
I know thy faithfulness, and need no more:
Yet, from the lab’rinth to lead out my mind,
Say, to expose her who was so unkind?

[Sir William embraces Peggy, and makes her sit by him.]
Yes, surely thou’rt my niece; truth must prevail:
But no more words, till Mause relate her tale.

Pat. Good nurse, go on; nae musick’s haff sae fine,
Or can give pleasure like these words of thine.

Mause. Then, it was I that sav’d her infant-life,
Her death being threatned by an uncle’s wife.
The story’s lang; but I the secret knew,
How they pursu’d, with avaritious view,
Her rich estate, of which they’re now possest:
All this to me a confident confest.
I heard with horror, and with trembling dread,
They’d smoor the sakeless orphan in her bed!
That very night, when all were sunk in rest,
At midnight hour, the floor I saftly prest,
And staw the sleeping innocent away;
With whom I travel’d some few miles ere day:
All day I hid me,—when the day was done,
I kept my journey, lighted by the moon,
Till eastward fifty miles I reach’d these plains,
Where needful plenty glads your chearful swains;
Afraid of being found out, I to secure
My Charge, e’en laid her at this shepherd’s door,
And took a neighbouring cottage here, that I,
Whate’er should happen to her, might be by.
Here honest Glaud himsell, and Symon may
Remember well, how I that very day
Frae Roger’s father took my little crove.

Glaud. [with tears of joy happing down his beard.]
I well remember’t. Lord reward your love:
Lang have I wish’d for this; for aft I thought,
Sic knowledge sometime should about be brought.

Pat. ’Tis now a crime to doubt,—my joys are full,
With due obedience to my parent’s will.
Sir, with paternal love survey her charms,
And blame me not for rushing to her arms.
She’s mine by vows; and would, tho’ still unknown,
Have been my wife, when I my vows durst own.

Sir Will. My niece! my daughter! welcome to my care,
Sweet image of thy mother good and fair,
Equal with Patrick: Now my greatest aim
Shall be, to aid your joys, and well match’d flame.
My boy, receive her from your father’s hand,
With as good will as either would demand.

[Patie and Peggy embrace, and kneel to Sir William.]
Pat. With as much joy this blessing I receive,
As ane wad life, that’s sinking in a wave.

Sir Will. [raises them.] I give you both my blessing:
may your love
Produce a happy race, and still improve.

Peg. My wishes are compleat,—my joys arise,
While I’m haff dizzy with the blest surprise.
And am I then a match for my ain lad,
That for me so much generous kindness had?
Lang may Sir William bless these happy plains,
Happy while Heaven grant he on them remains.

Pat. Be lang our guardian, still our Master be; }
We’ll only crave what you shall please to gi’e: }
The estate be your’s, my Peggy’s ane to me. }

Glaud. I hope your Honour now will take amends
Of them that sought her life for wicked ends.

Sir Will. The base unnatural villain soon shall know,
That eyes above watch the affairs below.
I’ll strip him soon of all to her pertains,
And make him reimburse his ill got gains.

Peg. To me the views of wealth and an estate,
Seem light when put in ballance with my Pate:
For his sake only, I’ll ay thankful bow
For such a kindness, best of men, to you.

Sym. What double blythness wakens up this day!
I hope now, Sir, you’ll no soon haste away.
Sall I unsadle your horse, and gar prepare
A dinner for ye of hale country fare?
See how much joy unwrinkles every brow;
Our looks hing on the twa, and doat on you:
Even Bauldy the bewitch’d has quite forgot
Fell Madge’s taz, and pawky Mause’s plot.

Sir Will. Kindly old man, remain with you this day!
I never from these fields again will stray:
Masons and wrights shall soon my house repair,
And bussy gardners shall new planting rear:
My father’s hearty table you soon shall see
Restor’d, and my best friends rejoice with me.

Sym. That’s the best news I heard this twenty year;
New day breaks up, rough times begin to clear.

Glaud. God save the King, and save Sir William lang,
To enjoy their ain, and raise the shepherd’s sang.

Rog. Wha winna dance? wha will refuse to sing?
What shepherd’s whistle winna lilt the spring?

Baul. I’m friends with Mause,—with very Madge I’m ‘greed,
Altho’ they skelpit me when woodly fleid:
I’m now fu’ blyth, and frankly can forgive,
To join and sing, “Lang may Sir William live.”

Mad. Lang may he live:—And, Bauldy, learn to steek
Your gab a wee, and think before ye speak;
And never ca’ her auld that wants a man,
Else ye may yet some witches’ fingers ban.
This day I’ll wi’ the youngest of ye rant,
And brag for ay, that I was ca’d the aunt
Of our young lady,—my dear bonny bairn!

Peg. No other name I’ll ever for you learn.—
And, my good nurse, how shall I gratefu’ be,
For a’ thy matchless kindness done for me?

Mause. The flowing pleasures of this happy day
Does fully all I can require repay.

Sir Will. To faithful Symon, and, kind Glaud, to you, }
And to your heirs I give in endless feu, }
The mailens ye possess, as justly due, }
For acting like kind fathers to the pair,
Who have enough besides, and these can spare.
Mause, in my house in calmness close your days,
With nought to do, but sing your Maker’s praise.

Omnes. The Lord of Heaven return your Honour’s love,
Confirm your joys, and a’ your blessings roove.

Patie, [presenting Roger to Sir William.]
Sir, here’s my trusty friend, that always shar’d
My bosom-secrets, ere I was a laird;
Glaud’s daughter Janet (Jenny, thinkna shame)
Rais’d, and maintains in him a lover’s flame:
Lang was he dumb, at last he spake, and won,
And hopes to be our honest uncle’s son:
Be pleas’d to speak to Glaud for his consent,
That nane may wear a face of discontent.

Sir Will. My son’s demand is fair,—Glaud, let me crave,
That trusty Roger may your daughter have,
With frank consent; and while he does remain
Upon these fields, I make him chamberlain.

Glaud. You crowd your bounties, Sir, what can we say, }
But that we’re dyvours that can ne’er repay? }
Whate’er your Honour wills, I shall obey. }

Roger, my daughter, with my blessing, take,
And still our master’s right your business make.
Please him, be faithful, and this auld gray head
Shall nod with quietness down amang the dead.

Rog. I ne’er was good a speaking a’ my days,
Or ever loo’d to make o’er great a fraise:
But for my master, father and my wife,
I will employ the cares of all my life.

Sir Will. My friends, I’m satisfied you’ll all behave,
Each in his station, as I’d wish or crave.
Be ever vertuous, soon or late you’ll find
Reward, and satisfaction to your mind.
The maze of life sometimes looks dark and wild;
And oft when hopes are highest, we’re beguil’d:
Aft, when we stand on brinks of dark despair, }
Some happy turn with joy dispells our care. }
Now all’s at rights, who sings best let me hear. }

Peg. When you demand, I readiest should obey:
I’ll sing you ane, the newest that I ha’e.

SANG XXI.—Tune, Corn-riggs are bonny.

My Patie is a lover gay,
      His mind is never muddy;
  His breath is sweeter than new hay,
      His face is fair and ruddy:
  His shape is handsome, middle size;
      He’s comely in his wauking:
  The shining of his een surprise;
      ’Tis Heaven to hear him tawking.

Last night I met him on a bawk,
      Where yellow corn was growing,
There mony a kindly word he spake,
      That set my heart a glowing.
  He kiss’d, and vow’d he wad be mine,
      And loo’d me best of ony,
  That gars me like to sing since syne,
      O corn-riggs are bonny.

Let lasses of a silly mind
      Refuse what maist they’re wanting;
  Since we for yielding were design’d,
      We chastly should be granting.
  Then I’ll comply, and marry Pate,
And syne my cockernonny
  He’s free to touzel air or late,
      Where corn-riggs are bonny.

[Exeunt omnes.

Notes

Page 5, line 11 from top; the reading in the text is:—

“She fled as frae a shellycoat or kow.”

“She fled as frae a shellycoated kow.”

We think the first reading is the true one; and that the second is, probably, a typographical error. We have come to this conclusion after an inquiry into the meaning of the words “Shellycoat” and “Kow.” The definitions of these words, from the best authorities we know of, are subjoined; which will enable such of our readers as have any curiosity in the matter to judge for themselves.

“Shellycoat, a spirit, who resides in the waters, and has given his name to many a rock and stone upon the Scottish coast, belongs also to the class of bogles. When he appeared, he seemed to be decked with marine productions, and in particular with shells, whose clattering announced his approach. From this circumstance he derived his name.—Shellycoat must not be confounded with Kelpy, a water spirit also, but of a much more powerful and malignant nature.”

[Scott’s Minstrelsy, vol. i., Introd. civ. cv.

“Shellycoat. One of those frightful spectres the ignorant people are terrified at, and tell us strange stories of; that they are clothed with a coat of shells, which make a horrid rattling; that they’ll be sure to destroy one, if he gets not a running water between him and it: it dares not meddle with a woman with child, &c.”

[Ramsay’s Poems. vol. i., 4to edition, 1721.

“Kowor Cow” a hobgoblin; also, a scarecrow, a bugbear. Cow-man, the devil.”

[Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary.

“Wirrikow,” the devil.

[Hogg’s Mountain Bard.

The above definitions of Shellycoat.are very precise: that of Kowis less so. Both are spirits, and frightful in character; yet apparently of distinct habits. Hence the firstof the readings given above,—the oldest and that adopted in the text—

“She fled as frae a shellycoat or kow,”

is quite natural and proper: the second (though susceptible of explanation,) seems much less so.

At page 57, a variation from the text given in the present edition, is found in nearly all the more modern editions: it is as follows:—

“Enter Bauldy [singing].

SANG XVI.

Jocky said to Jenny, Jenny, wilt thou do’t?
Ne’er a fit, quoth Jenny, for my tocher-good;
For my tocher-good, I winna marry thee:
E’en’s-ye-like, quoth, Jocky, I can let you be.

Mause,59 Well liltit, Bauldy, that’s a dainty sang.

Bauldy, I’se gie ye’t a’, it’s better than it’s lang.

I have gowd and gear, I have land eneugh,
I have sax good owsen ganging in a pleugh;
Ganging in a pleugh, and linkan o’er the lee,
And gin ye winna tak me, I can let ye be.

I have a good ha’ house, a barn, and a byre;
A peat-stack ’fore the door, will mak a ranting fire;
I’ll mak a ranting fire, and merry shall we be,
And gin ye winna tak me, I can let ye be.

Jenny said to Jocky, gin ye winna tell,
Ye shall be the lad, I’ll be the lass mysell;
Ye’re a bonny lad, and I’m a lassie free;
Y’ere welcomer to tak me than to let me be.”

In “Ramsay’s Poems,” published in London, by Millar, Rivington & Co., 2 vols. 12mo, 1761; (three years after the author’s death;) there occur several variations from the text of the present edition. As the more important of these changes, with one exception, have been adopted in the edition edited by George Chalmers, published by Cadell & Co., London, 2 vols. 8vo, 1800; (usually considered the “best edition” of Ramsay’s collected works;) and as they have been again adopted in the recent reprint of Cadell’s edition by Fullarton & Co., London, 3 vols. 12mo, 1850, it has been thought best to present them here in the form of notes. The following, therefore, are to be understood as the readings in the editions just referred to:—

Page 5, line 13 from bottom:—

“’Till he yowl’d sair she strak the poor dumb tyke:”

This is the reading in the 8vo and 4to editions of 1721, before referred to. In the 4to subscription edition of 1728, the author rejected the above reading, and substituted that given in the text. This would seem to be conclusive; and produces a considerable degree of suspicion as to the authority for the other alterations which we find in the editions of 1761 and 1800.

Page 11, line 4 from bottom:—

“We soon will hear what a poor feightan life”

[Edition of 1800.

The editions of 1761 and 1850 give the reading in the text.

Page 19, line 8 from top:—

“To shine, or set in glory with Montrose.”

Page 25, line 8 from bottom:—

“Bauldy. Well vers’d in herbs and seasons of the moon,
By skilfu’ charms ’tis kend what ye have done.”

[Edition of 1761.

The editions of 1800 and 1850 give the reading in the text.

Page 27:—

Mause her lane.

“This fool imagines, as do mony sic,
That I’m a witch in compact with Auld Nick,
Because by education I was taught
To speak and act aboon their common thought.
Their gross mistake shall quickly now appear,
Soon shall they ken what brought, what keeps me here.
Now since the royal Charles, and right’s restor’d,
A shepherdess is daughter to a lord.
The bonny foundling that’s brought up by Glaud,
Wha has an uncle’s care on her bestow’d,
Her infant life I sav’d, when a false friend
Bow’d to th’ Usurper, and her death design’d,
To establish him and his in all these plains
That by right heritage to her pertains.
She’s now in her sweet bloom, has blood and charms
Of too much value for a shepherd’s arms:
None knows’t but me;—and if the morn were come,
I’ll tell them tales will gar them all sing dumb.”

Page 29, line 7 from top:—

“I darna stay,—ye joker, let me gang,
Or swear ye’ll never tempt to do me wrang.”

Page 29, line 15 from top:—

“Shall do thee wrang, I swear by all aboon.”

Page 36, line 4 from top:—

“No Jaccacinths or Eglantines appear.
Here fail’d and broke’s the rising ample shade,
Where peach and nect’rine trees their branches spread,
Basking in rays, and early did produce
Fruit fair to view, delightful in the use;
All round in gaps, the walls in ruin lie,
And from what stands the wither’d branches fly.”

Page 47, line 10 from bottom:—

“With equal joy my safter heart does yield,
To own thy well-try’d love has won the field.”

Page 62, top line:—

“But love rebels against all bounding laws;
Fixt in my soul the shepherdess excells,”

Page 63, line 15 from bottom:—

“Fine claiths, saft beds, sweet houses, sparkling wine,
Rich fare, and witty friends, whene’er ye dine,
Submissive servants, honour, wealth and ease,”

Page 64, line 14 from bottom:—

“Roger. And proud of being your secretary, I
To wyle it frae me a’ the deels defy.”

Page 67, line 10 from bottom:—

“Dream thro’ that night, ’till my day-star appear;”

Page 70, line 5 from bottom:—

“Peggy. Were ilka hair that appertains to me
Worth an estate, they all belong to thee:
My sheers are ready, take what you demand,
And aught what love with virtue may command.
Patie. Nae mair I’ll ask; but since we’ve little time,”

Page 72, line 9 from top:—

“What want ye, Bauldy, at this [early silent] hour,
When nature nods beneath the drowsy pow’r:”

Page 73, line 8 from bottom:—

“Lows’d down my breeks, while I like a great fool,”

[Not in edition of 1850.

Page 82, line 12 from bottom:—

“Patie. Good nurse, dispatch thy story wing’d with blisses,
That I may give my cusin fifty kisses.”

Besides the above, there occur, in the edition of 1761, about 50 verbal alterations, additions, and omissions; and about 75 in the edition of 1800. In the edition of 1850 there are fewer changes, it having been partially corrected, probably from the 8vo edition of 1808. These verbal changes are rarely, if ever, improvements; frequently of little consequence, and sometimes they appear silly; for instance, towards the end of the Pastoral there is substituted, in two or three instances, Archbald instead of Bauldy! We have not, therefore, thought it worth while to note them here. We rather think that our readers, generally, will not consider the readings above given, as improvements on those in the text.

GLOSSARY;

OR,

AN EXPLANATION OF THE SCOTTISH WORDS

WHICH ARE USED IN

ALLAN RAMSAY’S “GENTLE SHEPHERD;”

AND WHICH ARE RARELY FOUND IN MODERN ENGLISH WRITINGS:

WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

A’, all.
Abeit, albeit, although.
Ablins, perhaps.
Aboon, above.
Ae, or ane, one.
Aff, off.
Aften, often.
Ain, or awn, own.
Air, long since, early.
Air up, soon up in the morning.
Airth, quarter of the heaven.
Alane, alone.
Amaist, almost.
Amang, among.
Aneath, beneath.
Anes, once.
Anither, another.
Asteer, stirring.
Atanes, at once, at the same time.
Attour, out-over.
Auld, old.
Awa, away.
A-will, voluntarily.
Awner, owner.

Ba’, ball.
Badrans, a cat.
Bairns, children.
Bair, bear, boar.
Baith, both.
To ban, to curse.
Banefire, bonfire.
Bannocks, a sort of unleavened bread, thicker than cakes, and round.
Barlickhood, a fit of drunken angry passion.
Bassend, see Bawsy.
Baugh, sorry, indifferent.
Bauk, balk.
Bauld, bold.
Bawk, a rafter, joist; likewise, the space between cornfields; to frustrate.
Bawsy, bawsand-fac’d, is a cow, or horse, with a white face.
Be, by.
Bedeen, immediately, in haste.
Begunk, a trick, a cheat.
Beik, to bask.
Beild, or beil, a shelter.
Bein, or been, wealthy, comfortable. A been house, a warm well-furnished one.
Ben, the inner room of a house.
Come farer ben, be better received.
Bend, a pull of liquor.
Bend the bicker, quaff out the cup.
Bent, a coarse kind of grass growing on hilly ground; the open field, the plain.
To the bent, fled out of reach.
Betooch-us-to, Heaven preserve us.
Beuk, baked.
Bicker, a wooden dish.
Bide, to await.
Bigonet, a linen cap or coif.
Billy, brother, a young man.
Birks, birch-trees.
Birky,—auld birky, old boy.
Birn, a burnt mark.
Birns, the stalks of burnt heath.
Black-sole, a confidant in courtship.
Blae, black and blue, the colour of the skin when bruised.
Blaeberry, bilberry.
Blashy, plashy, deluging.
Blate, bashful.
Blaw, blow; to boast.
Bleech, to blanch or whiten.
Bleer, to bedim with tears.
Bleez, blaze.
Blob, a drop.
Bob, to move up and down as in dancing.
Bobbit bands, tasselled bands (worn about the neck).
Bode, to proffer.
Bonny, beautiful.
Bouk, bulk.
Bourd, jest or dally.
Bowt, bolt.
Brae, the side of a hill, a steep bank.
Braid, broad.
Brankan, prancing, a capering.
Brattle, to advance rapidly, making a noise with the feet.
Brats, aprons of coarse linen.
Braw, brave; fine in apparel.
Breaks, becomes bankrupt.
Brecken, fern.
Briss, to press.
Brock, a badger.
Broe, broth.
Brown cow, a ludicrous expression for ale or beer, as opposed to milk.
Bught, the little fold where the ewes are inclosed at milking-time.
Bumbazed, confused; made to stare and look like an idiot.
Burn, or burnie, a brook.
Busk, to deck, dress.
Bustine, fustian (cloth.)
But, often used for without; as “but feed or favour.”
But a flaw, without a lie.
But,—fetch but, bring into the outer apartment, or that used as a kitchen.
By and attour, over and above.
By,—flings by, throws aside.
Byre, or byar, a cow-house.

Ca, call.
Cadgy, good-humoured, happy, fond.
Canker’d, angry, passionately snarling.
Canna, cannot.
Canny, prudent. (See Kanny.)
Cantraips, incantations.
Canty, cheerful and merry.
Car, sledge.
Carle, a word for an old man.
Carna, care not.
Cast up, to upbraid one with a thing.
Cauld, cold.
Cauldrife, spiritless; wanting cheerfulness in address.
Cauler, cool or fresh.
Cawf, or caff, a calf; chaff.
Cawk, chalk.
Chiel, or chield, a general term like fellow; used sometimes with respect, as, “he’s a very good chiel;” and contemptuously, “that chiel.”
Chirm, chirp and sing like a bird.
Chitter, chatter.
Chucky, a hen.
Claith, cloth.
Clatter, to chatter.
Claw, scratch.
Cleck, to hatch.
Cleek, to catch as with a hook.
Closs, close.
Clute, or cloot, hoof of cows or sheep.
Cockernony, the gathering of a woman’s hair, when it is wrapt or snooded up with a band or snood.
Coft, bought.
Coof, a stupid fellow.
Corby, a raven.
Cottar, a cottager.
Crack, to chat, to talk.
Craig, a rock.
Crap, crept.
Croon, or crune, to murmur or hum over a song.
Crove, a cottage.
Crummy, or crummock, a cow’s name.
Cunzie, or coonie, coin.
Curn, a medium quantity.
Cut and dry, a kind of tobacco.

Daffine, folly, waggery.
Daft, foolish.
Dainty, is used as an epithet of a fine man or woman.
Dang, did ding, beat, thrust, drive.
Darn, to hide.
Darna, dare not.
Dash, to put out of countenance.
Dawty, a fondling, darling. To dawt, or daut, to cocker and caress with tenderness.
Decreet, award.
Deil, or deel, the devil.
Dike, or dyke, a fence of stone or turf.
To Ding, to drive down, to beat, to overcome.
Dinna, do not.
Disna, does not.
Dit, to stop or close up a hole.
Divot, thin turf.
Doilt, confused and silly.
Doof, a dull, heavy-headed fellow.
Dool, pain, grief.
Dorts, a proud pet.
Dorty, proud; not to be spoken to; conceited; appearing as dis-obliged.
Dosens, becomes torpid.
Dow, to will, to incline, to thrive; to be able.
Dowie, sickly, melancholy, doleful, sad.
Downa, dow not, i. e., though one has the power, he wants the heart to do it.
Dowp, the arse; the medium remains of a candle.
Drap, drop.
Dreery, wearisome, frightful.
Drie, to suffer, endure.
Drouth, drought, thirst.
Dubs, mire, medium pools of water.
Duds, rags. Duddy, ragged.
Dung, driven down, overcome.
Dunt, stroke or blow; to beat, to palpitate.
Dyvour, a bankrupt, a debtor.

Eastlin, easterly, eastward.
Een, eyes.
Eild, old age.
Eith, easy. Eithly, easily.
Elf-shot, bewitched, shot by fairies.
Elritch, wild, hideous, uninhabited except by imaginary ghosts.
Elvand, the ell measure.
Ergh, scrupulous; when one makes faint attempts to do a thing, without a steady resolution; to be timorous.
Ether, an adder.
Ethercap, or ettercap, a venomous spiteful creature.
Ettle, to aim, design.
Even’d, compared.
Evens, equals, compares, allies.

Fa, fall.
Fae, foe.
Fain, joyful, tickled with pleasure.
Fairfa’, when we wish well to one, that a good or fair fate may befall him.
Fand, found.
Farder, farther.
Farer seen, more knowing.
Fash,—never fash your thumb, be not the least vexed, be easy.
Fash, to vex or trouble. Fasheous, troublesome.
Fauld, fold.
Fause, false.
Faut, fault.
Fawn, fallen.
Feckless, feeble, little and weak.
Feg, a fig.
Fell, good, valuable, keen; a rocky, or wild, hill.
Fere, sound, entire.
Ferlie, wonder.
Feu, tenure, a fief.
Firlot, four pecks, the fourth part of a boll.
Fit, the foot.
Flaes, fleas.
Flaw, lie or fib.
Flawing, lying, fibbing.
Fleetch, to coax or flatter.
Fleg, fright.
Flesh a’ creep, a phrase which expresses shuddering.
Flet, the preterit of flyte, did chide.
Fley, or flie, to affright. Fleyt, or fleid, afraid or terrified.
Flighter, flutter.
Flit, to remove.
Flite, or flyte, to scold or chide. Flet, did scold.
Flyp, to turn inside out.
Fog, moss.
Forby, besides.
Forgainst, opposite to.
Forgather, to meet, encounter.
Forrow cow, a cow that is not with calf, and therefore continues to give milk throughout the winter.
Fou, or fu, full.
Fouth, abundance, plenty.
Fowk, folk.
Fow-weel, full well.
Frae, fro, or from.
Fraise, to make a noise. We use to say “one makes a fraise,” when they boast, wonder, and talk more of a matter than it is worthy of, or will bear.
Freath the graith, to froth the suds about the clothes in washing.
Fundling, foundling.

Ga, gaw, gall.
Gab, the mouth. To Gab, to prate.
Gade, went, did go.
To Gae, to go.
Gait, a goat.
Gane, gone.
Gar, to cause, make, or force.
Gat, got.
Gate, or gait, way.
Gaw, to take the pet, to be galled.
Gawky, an idle, staring, idiotical person.
Gawn, going.
Gaws, galls.
Gay and early, pretty early.
To geck, to mock, to toss the head with disdain.
Gett, a brat, a child, by way of contempt or derision.
Ghaist, a ghost.
Gif, if.
Gin, if.
Girn, to grin, snarl.
Glen, a narrow valley between mountains.
Gloom, to scowl or frown.
Glowr, to stare.
Gowans, daisies.
Gowd, gold.
Gowk, the cuckoo. In derision, we call a thoughtless fellow, and one who harps too long on one subject, a gowk.
Grace-drink, the drink taken by a company after the giving of thanks at the end of a meal.
Graith, furniture, harness, armour.
To Grane, to groan.
Grany, grandmother, any old woman.
Gree, prize, victory.
Green, or grien, to long for.
Greet, to weep. Grat, wept.
Grit, familiar.
Grots, milled oats.
Gusty, savoury.
Gyte, gane gyte, acts extravagantly.

Ha, hall.
Had, hold.
Hae, have.
Haff, half.
Haffet, the cheek, side of the head.
Haflen, partly, in part.
Hagabag, coarse table-linen.
Haggies, a kind of pudding made of the lungs and liver of a sheep, and boiled in the big bag.
Hag-raid, witch-ridden, tormented by hags or phantoms.
Hait, or het, hot.
Haith, (a minced oath,) faith.
Hald, or had, hold.
Hale, whole.
Halesome, wholesome.
Hallen, a fence of turf, twigs, or stone, built at the side of a cottage door, to screen from the wind.
Haly, holy.
Haly band, kirk session.
Hame, home.
Hamely, friendly, frank, open, kind.
Happing, hopping.
Hapt, covered.
Harigalds, the heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
Hawky, a cow; a white-faced cow.
Hawse, or hauss, the throat or gullet.
Hawslock, the wool that grows on the hawse or throat.
Heartsome, blythe and happy.
Heeryestreen, the night before yesternight.
Heffs, or hefts, dwells.
Heghts, or hechts, promises, engagements, proffers.
Het, hot.
Hether-bells, the heath-blossom.
Hiddils, or hidlings, lurking, hiding-places. To do a thing in hidlings, i. e., privately.
Hinder, last.
To Hing, to hang.
Hinny, honey.
Hissel-shaw, hazel-wood.
Hobleshew, confused racket, uproar.
Hodden-grey, coarse grey cloth.
Hool, husk, shell.
How, low ground, a hollow.
Howdy, a midwife.
Howk, to dig.
Howms, holms, plains on river-sides.
Howt! fy!

Ilk, each. Ilka, every.
Of that ilk, of an estate having the same name as the owner.
Ingan, onion.
Ingle, fire.
I’se, I shall; as, I’ll, for I will.
Ither, other.

Jaccacinths, hyacinths.
Jaw, a wave or gush of water.
Jee, to incline on one side.
Jo, sweetheart.

Kaim, or kame, comb.
Kale, or kail, colewort; and sometimes, broth.
Kanny, or canny, fortunate; also, wary, one who manages his affairs discreetly; cautious.
Kedgy, or cadgie, jovial.
Keep up, hide, or retain.
Ken, to know.
Kenna, know not.
Kent, a long staff, such as shepherds use for leaping over ditches.
Kilted, tucked up.
Kirn, a churn; to churn.
Kitted, kept in a medium wooden vessel.
Kittle, difficult, mysterious, knotty (writings).
Kittle, to tickle, ticklish; vexatious.
Knit up themsells, hang up themselves.
Know, a hillock, a knoll.
Kow, goblin. See Notes, p. 89.
Ky, kine or cows.

Lair, or lear, learning; to learn.
Laith, loth.
Lake, lack.
Landwart, the country, or belonging to it; rustic.
Lane, alone.
Lang, long.
Langsome, slow, tedious.
Lang-syne, long ago; sometimes used as a substantive noun, auld lang-syne, old times by-past.
Lap, leaped.
Lave, the rest or remainder.
Lavrock, the lark.
Leal, or leel, true, upright, honest, faithful to trust, loyal; “a leal heart never lied.”
Lee, untilled ground; also an open grassy plain.
Leek,—clean’s a leek, perfectly clever and right.
Leen, cease, give up, yield.
Leglen, a milking-pail with one lug or handle.
Len, lend, loan.
Let na on, do not divulge.
Leugh, laughed.
Lick, to whip or beat; a blow.
Lied, ye lied, ye tell a lie.
Lift, the sky or firmament.
Lills, the holes of a wind instrument of music; hence, “lilt up a spring.”
Lin, a waterfall.
Linkan, walking speedily.
Loan, or loaning, a passage for the cattle to go to pasture, left untilled; a little common, where the maids often assembled to milk the ewes.
Loe, or loo, to love.
Loof, the hollow of the hand.
Lounder, a sound blow.
Lout, to bow down, making courtesy; to stoop.
Low, flame. Lowan, flaming.
Lowp, to leap.
Lowrie, lawrie, cunning; a designation given to the fox.
Lucky, grandmother, or goody.
Lug, ear; handle of a pot or vessel.
Luggie, a dish of wood with a handle.
Lug out, pull or draw out.
Lyart, hoary or grey-haired.

Mae, more.
Maik, or make, to match, equal.
Mailen, a farm.
Main, or mane, moan.
Mair, more.
Maist, most.
Mansworn, perjured.
Mavis, a thrush.
Maun, must. Mauna, must not, may not.
Mawt, malt.
Mear, mare.
Meikle, much, big, great, large.
Mennin, minnow.
Merl, the blackbird.
Midding, a dunghill.
Milk-bowie, milking-pail.
Mint, aim, endeavour, to attempt.
Mirk, dark.
Misca, to give names.
Mither, mother.
Mittons, woollen gloves.
Mony, many.
Mools, the earth of the grave.
Motty, full of motes.
Mou, or mow, mouth.
Mows, nae mows, no jest.
Muck, dung.
Muckle, see Meikle.

Na, nae, no, not.
Nathing, naething, naithing, nothing.
Nane, none.
Near-hand, nearly, almost.
Neist, next.
Newcal, new calved (cows.)
Newfangle, fond of a new thing.
Nibour, neighbour.
Nick,—auld Nick, the devil.
Nive, the fist.
Nocht, nought, not.
Nor, than.
Nowt, cows, kine.
Nowther, neither.

Obeysant, obedient.
O’ercome, surplus.
O’erput,—ne’er o’erput it, never get over it.
Onstead, the building on a farm, the farm-house.
Ony, any.
Or, sometimes used for ere, or before. Or day, i. e., before daybreak.
Orp, to weep with a convulsive pant.
Owk, week.
Owrlay, a cravat.
Owsen, oxen.
Oxter, the armpit.

Pat, did put.
Paughty, proud, haughty.
Pawky, witty or sly in word or action, without any harm or bad designs.
Peets, turf for fire.
Pensy, finical, foppish, conceited.
Pit, to put.
Pith, strength, might, force.
Plaiding, a coarse tweeled woollen cloth.
Plet, plaited.
Plotcock, the devil.
Poinds your gear, distrains your effects.
Poke, bag.
Pople, or paple, the bubbling, purling, or boiling up of water.
Poortith, poverty.
Pou, pull.
Poutch, a pocket.
Pow, the poll, the head.
Prin, a pin.
Propine, gift or present.
Pu, pull.
Pund, pound.
Putt a stane, throw a big stone.

Quean, a young woman.
Quey, a young cow.

Racket rent, rack-rent.
Rae, a roe.
Rair, or rare, roar.
Rashes, rushes.
Redd, to rid, unravel; to separate folks that are fighting. It also signifies clearing of any passage. “I am redd,” I am apprehensive.
Red up, to put in order.
Reek, smoke.
Reest, to rust, or dry in the smoke.
Rever, a robber or pirate.
Rife, or ryfe, plenty.
Rigs of corn, ridges.
Rin, run.
Rock, a distaff.
Roose, or ruse, to commend, extol.
Roove, to rivet.
Roudes, a wrinkled, ill-natured woman.
Rousted, rusted.
Row, roll.
Rowan, rolling.
Rowt, to roar, especially the lowing of bulls and cows.
Rowth, plenty.
Ruck, a rick or stack of hay or corn.
Rumple, the Rump parliament.

Sae, so.
Saebiens, seeing it is, since.
Saft, soft.
Sair, or sare, sore.
Sakeless, or saikless, guiltless, innocent, free.
Sald, sold.
Sall, shall; like soud for should.
Samen, same.
Sang, song.
Sark, a shirt.
Saugh, a willow or sallow tree.
Saul, soul.
Saw, an old saying, or proverbial expression.
Sawn, sown.
Sax, six.
Scad, or scawd, scald.
Scart, to scratch.
Scrimp, narrow, straitened, little.
Sell, self.
Sey, to try.
Shaw, a wood or forest.
To Shaw, to show.
Shellycoat, a goblin, a spirit who resides in the waters.
Sheveling-gabit, having a distorted mouth.
Shoon, shoes.
Shore, to threaten.
Sic, such.
Siccan, such kind of.
Siller, silver.
Simmer, summer.
Sindle, or sinle, seldom.
Singand, singing.
Sinsyne, since that time; lang sinsyne, long ago.
Skair, share.
Skaith, hurt, damage, loss.
Skelf, shelf.
Skelp, to run; to flog the buttocks.
Skiff, to move smoothly along.
Slaw, slow.
Sled, sledge, sleigh.
Slee, sly.
Slid, smooth, cunning, slippery; as, “he’s a slid loun.”
Sma, medium.
Smoor, to smother.
Snaw, snow.
Snood, the band for tying up a woman’s hair.
Snool, to dispirit by chiding, hard labour, and the like; also, a pitiful grovelling slave.
Sonsy, happy, fortunate, lucky; sometimes used for large and lusty; plump, thriving.
Sorn, to spunge, or hang on others for maintenance.
Sough, the sound of wind among trees, or of one sleeping.
Spae, to foretell or divine. Spaemen prophets, augurs.
Spain, to wean from the breast.
Spait, or spate, a torrent, flood, or inundation.
Speer, to ask, inquire.
Spill, to spoil, abuse.
Spraings, stripes of different colours.
Spring, a tune on a musical instrument.
Sta, stall.
Stane, stone; a weight of 16 lbs.
Stang, did sting, to sting.
Stap, stop.
Starns, the stars.
Staw, stole.
Steek, to shut, close.
Stegh, to cram.
Stend, or sten, to move with a hasty long pace; to spring.
Stent, to stretch or extend; to limit or stint.
Stock-and-horn, a shepherd’s pipe, made by inserting a reed pierced like a flute into a cow’s horn; the mouth-piece is like that of a hautboy.
Stown, stolen.
Strae, straw.
Strak, struck.
Strapan, clever, tall, handsome.
Sung, singed.
Swat, did sweat.
Swith, quickly.
Syne, afterwards, then; since.

Taid, a toad.
Tald, told.
Tane, taken.
Tarrow, to refuse what we love, from a cross humour.
Tass, a little dram-cup.
Tate, a medium lock of hair, or any little quantity of wool, cotton, &c.
Taz, a whip or scourge.
Tent, to attend, to take care of; to observe, to remark.
Thack, thatch.
Thae, those.
Than, then.
Thievless, wanting propriety, unmeaning.
Thirle, to thrill.
Thole, to endure, suffer.
Thow, thaw.
Thrang, throng.
Thrawart, froward, cross, crabbed.
Thrawin, stern and cross-grained.
Thrawn-gabet, wry-mouthed.
Tift, good order. In tift, in the mood.
Till, to. Till’t, to it.
Timmer,—turn the timmer, put round the cup.
Tine, or tyne, to lose. Tint, lost.
Titty, sister.
Tocher, portion, dowry.
Tocher,—but tocher-good, without dowry.
Tod, a fox.
Tod Lawrie, a fox.
Tooly, to fight; to scramble; to romp.
Toom, empty, applied to a barrel, purse, house, &c.; also, to empty.
Tot, a fondling name given to a child.
Touse, tousle, or towzle, to rumple, to handle roughly.
Towin’d, tamed.
Towmond, a year or twelvemonth.
Towzle, to handle roughly.
Trig, neat, handsome.
Triste, or tryst, appointment.
Tron, an instrument erected in every burgh in Scotland, for the weighing of wool and other heavy wares.
Trow, to believe.
Tulzie, a quarrel or broil.
Twa three, two or three.
Twitch, touch.
Tyke, a dog of one of the larger and common breeds.

Uneith, not easy.
Unfother’d, not foddered.
Unko, or unco, unknown, strange; very.
Unsonsy, unlucky, ugly.

Virle, a ferrule.
Vissy, to view with care.

Wa, or waw, wall.
Wad, would.
Wadna, would not.
Wae, sorrowful; woe.
Waefu’, woeful.
Waff, wandering by itself; worthless.
Wale, to pick and choose; the best.
Wame, womb, the belly.
Wan, won.
War, or warse, worse.
Ware, wares, merchandise; to expend.
Wark, work.
Warld, world.
Warlock, wizard.
Warst, worst.
Wat, or wit, to know.
Wather, a male sheep that has been gelded while a lamb.
Watna-whats, know-not-whats.
Wauk, or wawk, to walk; to watch.
Wawking, watching.
We’an, or wee ane, a child.
Wear up, to drive off.
Wee, little.
Ween, thought, imagined, supposed.
Weer, to stop or oppose.
Westlin, westerly, westward.
West-Port, the sheep market-place of Edinburgh.
Wha, who.
Whase, whose.
Whilk, which.
Whindging, whining, whimpering.
Whins, furze.
Whisht, hush, hold your peace.
Whop, whip.
Will-fire, wild fire.
Wimpling, a turning backward and forward, winding like the meanders of a river.
Win, or won, to reside, dwell.
Winna, will not.
Winsom, gaining, desirable, agreeable, complete, large, handsome, charming.
Withershins, motion against the sun.
Wobster,—the deel gaes o’er John Wobster, the devil’s to pay.
To Won, to dry by exposing to the sun and air.
Wond, wound, wrapped around.
Woo, or w, wool.
Wood, mad.
Woody, the gallows: for, a withy was formerly used as a rope for hanging criminals.
Wordy, worthy.
Wow, wonderful, strange.
Wrang, wrong.
Wreaths of snow, when heaps of it are blown together by the wind.
Wyle, or wile, to entice.
Wyte, or wite, to blame, blame.

Yestreen, yesternight.
Yont, beyond.
Youdith, youthfulness.
Youl, to yell.
Yule, Christmas.

CATALOGUE

OF THE

SCOTTISH POETS,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD.

Sages and chiefs long since had birth,
Ere Cæsar was, or Newton nam’d;
These rais’d new empires o’er the earth,—
And those, new heav’ns and systems fram’d;
Vain was the chiefs’, the sages’ pride!
They had no poet, and they died.
In vain they schem’d, in vain they bled!
They had no poet, and are dead.

A. Pope.

Book Catalogues are to men of letters what the compass and the lighthouse are to the mariner,
the railroad to the merchant, the telegraph wires to the editor, the digested index to the lawyer,
the pharmacopœia and the dispensatory to the physician, the sign-post to the traveller, the screw,
the wedge, and the lever to the mechanic; in short, they are the labour-saving machines, the concordances,
of literature Western Memorabilia.

WILLIAM GOWANS.

1852.

CATALOGUE

OF THE

SCOTTISH POETS,

AND OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THEIR WORKS.

ADAMSON, H. The Muse’s Threnodie, or, Mirthful Mournings; and a Poetical Description of Perth. Map. 8vo. Perth, 1774.

ADAMSON, JOHN. The Muse’s Welcome to the high and mighty prince James, king of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, after his happy return to his old and native kingdome of Scotland, after XIII years absence. Folio. Edinburgh, 1618.

ADAMSON, PATRICK. (Archbishop of St. Andrews.) Paraphrase of the Book of Job. 1597.
ALVES, ROBERT. The Weeping Bard, and other Miscellaneous Poems. 1789.
ANE PLEASANT GARLAND of Sweet Scented Flowers. 4to. pp. 31. 1835.
ANSTRUTHER, SIR WILLIAM. Essays, Moral and Divine; interspersed with Poetry. 1701.
ARBUTHNOT, ALEXANDER. Miseries of a Poor Scholar, Praise of Women, Love, &c., &c. 1583.
ARBUTHNOT, JOHN, M. D. Aye and No: a Poem. N. D.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Juvenile Poems, with Remarks on Poetry. 1791.
AYTON, SIR ROBERT. Poems on Woman’s Inconstancy. 1600.
BAILLIE, JOANNA. Poems, Songs, and Plays. 8vo. pp. 847. $4.00. London, 1851.

BALFOUR, SIR JAMES. (Ballads, and other Fugitive Poetical Pieces, chiefly Scottish, from the collection of) 4to. Edinburgh, 1834.

BALNAVES, HENRY. A Poetical Rhapsody. N. D.

BANNATYNE, GEORGE. (Ane Ballet Book, written in the year of God 1558; and Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the MS. of) N. D.

BARBOUR, JOHN. The Bruce and Wallace; or, the Metrical History of Robert I. King of Scots, and Sir William Wallace. Published from a manuscript dated 1489, as preserved in the Advocate’s Library, with Notes, Glossary, and a Memoir of the Life of the Author. By John Jamieson. 2 vols. 4to. pp. 625 and 664. Edinburgh, 1820.

BARCLAY, ALEXANDER. Here begynneth the Eglogues, whereof the fyrst thre conteyneth the Myseryes of Courters and Courts of all Prynces in general. The fourth conteyning the Manners of Rich Men anenst Poets and other Clerks. N. D.

BARCLAY, JOHN. A Description, in verse, of the Roman Catholic Church. 1679.
BARRY, THOMAS. (Provost of Bothwell.) The Battle of Otterburn Bower. M.S. 1338.
BEATTIE, JAMES. Original Poems and Translations. 8vo. pp. 198. London, 1760.
BEATTIE, JAMES HAY. Literary and Poetical Remains. 1800.
BELLENDEN, JOHN. (Translator of Hector Bœce.) The Proheme of the Cosmographe. Folio. 1556.
BINNEY, JAMES. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 18mo. Kelso, 1815.

BLACK, R. JOHN. The Falls of Clyde; or, the Fairies. A Scottish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts, with Three Preliminary Dissertations. 8vo. pp. 241. Edinburgh, 1806.

BLACKWOOD, ADAM. De Jure Regni. 1644.

BLAIR, JOHN. (Chaplain to Sir William Wallace.) A History of Wallace, in verse; written jointly by him and Thomas Gray. N. D.

BLAIR, ROBERT. The Grave, and other Poems. Edinburgh, 1731.
BLAMIRE, MISS. Songs in the Scottish dialect. N. D.
BOSWELL, SIR ALEXANDER. Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 8vo. pp. 34. Edinburgh, 1803.
BOYD, MARK ALEXANDER. Poems—Latin, English, and Scottish. 1601.
BOYD, ZACHARIAH. A Poetical Version of the Bible, and other Poems. 1643.
BROWN, HUGH. The Covenanters, and other Poems. 1825.
BRUCE, GEORGE. Poems and Songs on Various Occasions. 8vo. pp. 203. Edinburgh, 1811.

BUCHAN, P. The Recreation of Leisure Hours; being original Songs and Verses, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 18mo. pp. 138. Edinburgh, N. D.

BUCHANAN, DUGALD. (Schoolmaster at Rannoch.) Poems in the Gaelic language. 1770.

BUCHANAN, GEORGE. A Latin Version of the Psalms of David, Satires, Epigrams, and Plays. 1600.

BUREL, JOHN. The Description of the Queen’s Majesties Maist Honorable Entree into the Town of Edinburgh, upon the 19th day of May, 1590. 1590.

BURNE, NICOL. The Disputation concerning the controverted Heads of Religion holden in the realme of Scotland. (A poetical satire against the Reformers.) An Admonition to the Antichristian Ministers of the Deformed Kirk of Scotland. 1581.

BURNS, ROBERT (of Hamilton). Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 1798.

BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Original edition. 8vo. Kilmarnock, 1786.

BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 8vo. pp. 368. Portrait (original Edinburgh edition). Edinburgh, 1787.

BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 2 vols. Small 8vo. pp. 249 and 283. Second edition. Edinburgh, 1793.

BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with an account of his Life, and a criticism on his Writings. To which is added Some Observations on the Character of the Scotish Peasantry, with a copious Glossary. By Dr. J. Currie. 4 vols. 8vo. pp. 395, 469, 425, and 414. London, 1802.

BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, with an account of his Life and Miscellaneous Remarks on his Writings, containing also many Poems and Letters not printed in Dr. Currie’s edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 320 and 379. Edinburgh, 1811.

BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, containing his Life by John Lockhart; the Poetry and Correspondence of Dr. Currie’s edition; Biographical Sketches of the Poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stuart, and others; Essay on Scottish Poetry; Burns’s Songs from Johnson’s Musical Museum and Thompson’s Select Melodies; Select Scottish Songs by other Poets, from the best collections, with Burns’s Remarks. 8vo. pp. 591. Edinburgh, 1837.

BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with a Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Chambers, Wm. Cowper, Cromek, Allan Cunningham, Dr. Currie, Wm. Hazlitt, James Hogg, Lord Francis Jeffrey, T. Landseer, J. Lockhart, W. Motherwell, Sir Walter Scott, Professor John Wilson, and Wm. Wordsworth. Royal 8vo. pp. 820. London, 1846.

BURT, JOHN. Horæ Poeticæ; or, the Transient Musings of a solitary Lyre, consisting of Poems and Songs in English and Scotch. 18mo. pp. 194. Burlington, N. J., 1819.

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CRAWFORD, DAVID. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect; and two Comedies, namely, Courtship à la Mode, Love at First Sight, and Love Epistles in Verse. Edinburgh, 1798.

CRAWFORD, ROBERT. The Bush aboon Traquair, and other Songs. 1732.
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DALZIEL, GAVIN. John and Saunders, a Pastoral; and the Downfall of Napoleon, with other Poems. 1792.

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DONALDSON, JAMES. (Farmer.) A Pick Tooth for Swearers; or, a Looking-glass for Atheists and Profane Persons: and Husbandry, Anatomized. 1698.

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DOUGLAS, FRANCIS. (Baker.) Rural Love, a Tale in the Scottish dialect, and the Birth Day. 1741.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (Bishop of Dunkeld.) Satire on the Times; quharin the Author schawes the Staet of thys Fals Warld, quhere all Thyngs is turnit fra Vertue tye Vyce. N. D.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (Bishop of Dunkeld.) The Palice of Honour. 1553.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (Bishop of Dunkeld.) The thirteen Bukes of Eneados, of the Famous Poet Virgill. Translated out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir. Every Buke having hys perticular Prologue. 4to. London, 1553.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (Bishop of Dunkeld.) Virgil’s Æneis, translated into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition, wherein many of the errors of the former are corrected, and the defects supplied from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary, explaining the difficult words, which may serve for a Dictionary to the old Scottish language. To which is prefixed, an Account of the Author’s Life and Writings, from the best historical records. Folio. pp. 468, and a Glossary. Edinburgh, 1710.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (Bishop of Dunkeld.) A Description of Winter, with his Great Storms and Tempests, and a Description of May. N. D.

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DUNBAR, WILLIAM. The Poems of, now first collected, with Notes, and a Memoir of his Life, by David Laing. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 326 and 498. $5.50. Edinburgh, 1834.

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FISHER, JAMES. (The Blind Musician.) Poems on Various Subjects. Dumfries, 1792.

FORBES, ROBERT. Ajax’s Speech to the Grecian Knobs, a Journal to Portsmouth and a Shop Bill. Written in the broad Buchan dialect. Edinburgh, 1795.

FORBES, WILLIAM. The Dominie Deposed; or, Intrigue with a Young Lass. (In the Buchan dialect.) 18mo. Paisley, 1798.

FOWLER, WILLIAM. The Tarantules of Love, and other Poems. 1627.

FULLERTON, JOHN. The Turtle-Dove, under the Absence and Presence of her only Choice. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1664.

GALLOWAY, ROBERT. (Bookseller.) Poems, Epistles, and Songs, in the Scottish dialect. Glasgow, 1783.
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GEDDES, WILLIAM. The Saints’ Recreation. 1683.
GEDDES, ALEXANDER. The Battle of Bangor; or, the Church’s Triumph, and other Poems. 1797.
GIBSON, JOHN. Odes and other Poems. 18mo. pp. 127. Edinburgh, 1818.
GLASS, JOHN. The River Tay, a Fragment. N. D.

GLENCAIRN, ALEXANDER. (Earl of.) Ane Epistle directed from the Holy Heremite of Allareit to his Brethren of the Graye Freyre. 1566.

GLOVER, JANE. Author of “O’er the Moor amang the Heather.” 1788.

GLASSFORD, * * * Bannockburn, a Poem in Four Books. 8vo. pp. 248. Glasgow, 1810.

GOLDIE, JOHN. Poems and Songs by Nichol Nano. 1821.

GOLDIE, JOHN. (The Poetic Seaman.) The Deil’s Burial, Death and Davie L., Ode to a Haggis, and other Poems. 1826.

GORDON, GILBERT. A Poem in imitation of the Cherry and Slae, &c. 1701.

GORDON, PATRICK. The Famous Historie of the Renouned and Valliant Prince Robert, surnamed the Bruce, King of Scotland, &c., and sundrie other Valiant Knights, both Scots and English. 4to. Dort, 1615.

GORDON, PATRICK. The First Boke of the Famous Historye of Penardo and Laessa, otherwyse called the Warres of Love and Ambition. Done in Heroick Verse. 8vo. Dort, 1615.

GRÆME, JAMES. Poems on several occasions, with an account of the Life of the Author by Dr. Anderson. Edinburgh, 1773.

GRAHAM, D. History of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the late Rebellion in 1745, ’46. 8vo. Glasgow, 1774.

GRAHAM, JOHN (of Yew York). Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. V. D.

GRAINGER, JOHN. Translation of the Elegies of Tibulius, Poems of Sulpitia, and other Poems. London, 1758.

GRAHAM, JAMES. (Marquis of Montrose.) Amatory Poems. N. D.

GRAHAME, SIMEON. The Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde, and the Anatomie of Humors. Edinburgh, 1604.

GRAY, ROBERT. Poems in the Scotch and English dialects. 8vo. pp. 156. Glasgow, 1793.
GREENFIELD, ANDREW. Poems, &c. 1790.
HAMILTON, CHARLES. (Lord Binning,) Ungrateful Nancy, and the Duke of Argyle’s Levee. 1740.

HAMILTON, ELIZABETH. Popular Opinions; or, a Picture of Real Life exhibited in a Dialogue between a Scottish Farmer and a Weaver, &c., &c., &c. To which is added an Epistle from the Farmer to Elizabeth Hamilton in Scottish Verse. 8vo. pp. 108. Glasgow, 1812.

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HAMILTON, THOMAS. (Earl of Haddington.) Forty Select Poems, on several occasions, and Tales in Verse. Edinburgh, 1735.

HARPER, WILLIAM. A Version of the Song of Solomon. Edinburgh, 1775.

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HAY, PETER. An Heroic Songe. Aberdeen, 1647.

HENDERSON, ANDREW. Tragedies, &c. 1752.

HENRYSON, ROBERT. (Schoolmaster of Dumferling.) Borrowstown Mons and the Landwart Mous, and other Fables. In Scottish Verse. 1575.

HERON, ROBERT. The Schoolmaster—a Play, and other Poems. N. D.

HETRICK, ROBERT. (The Dalmellington Poet.) Craigs of Ness. A Poem and other Poems and Songs. 1826.

HERVEY, JOHN. The Life of Robert Bruce King of Scots. An Heroic Poem, in Three Books. 4to. pp. 232. Edinburgh, 1729.

HOFLAND, MRS. Wallace; or, the Fight of Falkirk. A Metrical Romance. 8vo. pp. 252. London, 1810.

HOGG, JAMES. The Queen’s Wake. A Legendary Poem. 8vo. pp. 356. Edinburgh, 1813.

HOGG, JAMES. Queen Hynde. A Poem, in Six Books. 8vo. pp. 443. London, 1825.

HOGG, JAMES. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; being the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the Adherents to the House of Stuart, collected and illustrated by James Hogg. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 444 and 488. (With Music.) Edinburgh, 1819 and 1821.

HOGG, JAMES. Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, &c., mostly written in the dialect of the South. 8vo. pp. 62. Edinburgh, 1802.

HOGG, JAMES. Jock Johnstone the Tinkler. A Poem. See Blackwood for 1829.

HOGG, JAMES. The Mountain Bard, consisting of Ballads and Songs founded on Facts and Legendary Tales. 8vo. pp. 476. Edinburgh, 1821.

HOGG, JAMES. The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem. 8vo. pp. 148. London, 1818.

HOGG, WILLIAM. Poems, chiefly in the Latin language. 1706.

HOLLAND, SIR RICHARD. The Buke of the Houlate; or, the Danger of Pride. An Allegorical Poem. (In MS.) 1450.

HOME, JOHN. Douglas; or, The Noble Shepherd: a Tragedy, and other Plays. 3 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1822.

HOPE, JOHN. Thoughts, in Prose and Verse. Edinburgh, 1780.

HOY, JOHN. Poems on Various Subjects. Edinburgh, 1781.

HUDSON, THOMAS. Historie of Judeth, and Essays of an Aprentese in the Divine Art of Poesie. 1600.

HUME, ALEXANDER. Epistle to Moncrief; viz., Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Flyting with Montgomery, &c. 1599.

HUME, DAVID. Poems, chiefly Latin. Paris, 1639.

INGLES, HENRY. Marican, and other Poems. 8vo. pp. 144. Edinburgh, 1851.

INGLIS, SIR JAMES. Poems, consisting of Songs, Ballads, Satires, Plays, and Farces. (In MS.) About 1513.

INGLIS, SIR JAMES. The Complaynt of Scotland, written in 1548, with a Preliminary Dissertation and Glossary. 4to. pp. 384. Edinburgh, 1801.

INGRAM, WILLIAM. Poems in the English and Scottish dialects. 8vo. pp. 126. Aberdeen, 1812.

JAMES THE FIFTH. (King of Scotland.) Chryste’s Kirk on the Greene. N. D.

JAMES THE SIXTH. (King of Scotland.) Phœnix; a Metaphorical Invention, Paraphrase on Lucian, Poem on Tyme, &c., &c. 1616.

JAMES THE SIXTH. (King of Scotland.) The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie. With a prefatory Memoir by R. P. Gillies. 4to. Edinburgh, 1814.

JAMES THE SIXTH. (King of Scotland.) His Majestie’s Poetical Exercises at Vacant Hours. 4to. Edinburgh, N. D.

JAMIESON, J. Songs inspired by several occasions. V. D.

JOHNSTON, ARTHUR. Parerga and Epigrammata, and a Latin Version of the Psalms of David. 1632.

JOHNSTON, PATRICK. The Three Death’s Heads. N. D.

KEITH, C. The Farm’s Ha, and other Poems. 1776.

KENNEDY, JOHN. Fancy’s Tour with the Genius of Cruelty, and Geordie Chalmers, or the Law in Glenbuckie. 1807.

KENNEDY, WALTER. The Flyting between Dunbar and Kennedy, and other Poems. 1508.
KERR, LYON. Scottish Poems, Songs, &c. 18mo. pp. 128. Perth, 1802.
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LAPRAIK, JOHN. (Contemporary and friend of Burns.) Poems on Several Occasions. 8vo. pp. 248. Kilmarnock, 1788.

LEYDEN, JOHN. The Poetical Remains of. With Memoirs of his Life by James Morton. 8vo. pp. 415. Edinburgh, 1819.

LINDESAY, SIR DAVID. The Workis of the famous and worthie Knicht Schir Lyndesny of the Mount, alias Lyoun King of Armes. Newly correctit, and vindicated from the former errouris quhairwith they war befoir corruptit, and augmentit with sundrie Warkis quhilk was not before imprentit. The Contents of the Buke, and quhat Warkis or augmentit, the nixt syde sail schaw. (First collected edition of this author’s works.) 4to. Edinburgh, 1568.

LINDSEY, ANN. Auld Robin Gray, and other Songs. N. D.

LITHGOW, WILLIAM. Pilgrim’s Farewell to his Native Country of Scotland, wherein is contained, in way of Dialogue, the Joyes and Miseries of Peregrination. With his Lamantado in his Second Travels. 4to. Edinburgh, 1618.

LITHGOW, WILLIAM. The Gushing Teares of Godly Sorrow, containing the Causes, Conditions, and Remedies of Sinne, depending mainly upon Contrition and Confession. 4to. Edinburgh, 1640.

LITTLE, JANET. (The Scottish Milkmaid.) Songs, &c. 1784.
LOCHORE, ROBERT. Poems and Songs in the Scottish dialect. 1799.
LOCKHART, SIR MUNGO. Poems, &c. This author’s works are entirely lost. 1530.
LOVE, JAMES. Poems on Several Occasions. 8vo. pp. 115. Edinburgh, 1756.
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MACLAURIN, JOHN. (Lord Dreghorn.) The Works of. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 189 and 391. Edinburgh, 1798.

MACNEIL, HECTOR. The Links of Forth; or, A Parting Peep at the Carse o’ Stirling. A Plaint. 8vo. pp. 60. Edinburgh, 1799.

MACTAGGART, JOHN. The Scottish, Caledonian Encyclopedia; or, the Original, Antiquated, and Natural Curiosities of the South of Scotland—interspersed with Scottish Poetry. 8vo. pp. 504. London, 1824.

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MATHISON, THOMAS. The Golf, an Heroic Poem, in Three Cantos. 1754.

M’COLL, EVAN. The Mountain Minstrel; or, Poems and Songs in English. 18mo. pp. 332. Edinburgh, 1838.

MERCER, JAMES. Lyric Poems, &c. 1804.

MERCER, WILLIAM. England’s Looking-glasse. N.D.

MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS. The Poetical Works. Collected from the best editions by Thomas Park. 24mo. pp. 160. London, 1808.

MITCHELL, JOSEPH. Pinky House, and other Poems and Plays. 2 vols. 1729.
M’KAY, ARCHIBALD. Drouthy Tom, and other Poems, &c. N. D.
MOFFAT, JOHN. The Wife of Auchtermuchty, and other Poems. N. D.
MONTEITH, ROBERT. Fratres Fraterrimi Translated, and Ane Theatre of Mortality. Edinburgh, 1704.
MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER. The Cherry and Sloe, with other Poems and Songs, &c. 1575.

MONTGOMERY, JAMES. The Wanderer of Switzerland, The West Indies, The World before the Flood, Greenland, Songs of Zion, The Pelican Islands, Prison Amusements, Miscellaneous Poems, Lectures on Poetry, Prose by a Poet, &c., &c. V. D.

MOORE, JAMES. Spirit of the Scots and English Rebels in 1745 Characterized, and other Poems. 1750.

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MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, with an Historical Introduction and Notes. 4to. pp. 518. Glasgow, 1827.

MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM. Poems, Narrative and Lyrical. 4to. pp. 232. Glasgow, 1832.
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MYLNE, JAMES. Poems, consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces; and two Tragedies. 8vo. pp. 435. Edinburgh, 1790.

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NASMYTH, ARTHUR. Divine Poems, and The Man’s Looking-glass. Edinburgh, 1665.
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NICOL, ALEXANDER. Nature without Art; or, Nature’s Prayers in Poetry; and a Fourth Canto of Christ’s Kirk on the Green. 1766.

NICOL, ROBERT. Poems and Lyrics. Edinburgh, 1835.

OGILBY, JOHN. Translations of Homer, Æsop, Virgil, and other Poems. 1649.

OGILVIE, JOHN. Poems on Several Subjects. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 296 and 286. Dublin, 1769.

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OSWALD, JOHN. The Virgin’s Dream, and other Poems. N. D.

OSSIAN. The Poems of, in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin by the late Robert Macfarlan; together with A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems by Sir John Sinclair, Bart.; and a Translation from the Italian of the Abbé Cesacotti’s Dissertation on the Controversy respecting the Authenticity of Ossian, with Notes and a Supplementary Essay by John M’Arthur. Published under the sanction of the Highland Society in London. 3 vols. royal 8vo. pp. 500, 390, and 576. Portrait of Ossian. London, 1807.

OSSIAN. The Poems of, &c., containing the Poetical Works of James Macpherson, Esq., in Prose and Rhyme, with Notes and Illustrations by Malcolm Laing. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 579 and 634. Edinburgh, 1805.

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PAGAN, ISABEL. (Author of “Ca the Yowes to the Knowes.”) 1797.
PANTHER, PATRICK, D. D. Valliados, a Poem in Prais of Wallace. 1633.
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PATTERSON, WALTER. The Legend of Iona, with other Poems. 8vo. pp. 342. Edinburgh, 1814.

PENNECUIK, ALEXANDER. The Works of, containing the Description of Tweeddale and Miscellaneous Poems. A new edition, with copious Notes, forming a complete history of the country to the present time. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1815.

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RAMSAY, ANDREW. The Creation—the Happy Condition of Man before the Fall. Edinburgh, 1630.
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ROSS, ALEXANDER. A Picture of the Life of Christ taken from the Georgies of Virgil.

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SCOTT, ALEXANDER. A New Year’s Gift, addressed to Queen Mary, when she came first hame. 1562.

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SCOTT, WALTER. Ancient Chronicles and Traditions of our Fathers. 1688.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Sir Tristram; Lay of the Last Minstrel; Ballads, Translations, and Imitations from the German; Marmion—a Tale of Flodden Field; Lady of the Lake; Rokeby; The Vision of Don Roderick; The Lord of the Isles; Bridle of Tuermain; Harold the Dauntless; The Field of Waterloo; Plays; Miscellaneous and Occasional Poems, Songs, &c. V. Y.

SEMPIL, FRANCIS. The Banishment of Poverty, and she rose and let me in. 1638.

SEMPIL, SIR JAMES. The Packman and the Priest. 1601.

SEMPLE, ROBERT. Philetus, Ballat of Three Female Taverneers, Fleming Borg, Elegy on Habit, Simpson the Piper of Kilmarnock, &c. 1568.

SHAW, QUINTIN. Advice to a Courtier: a Poem. 1560.
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SIMSON, ANDREW. Trepatriarchicon, or the Lives of the three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in Verse; and Doleful Lamentations on the “Hored Murther” of Archbishop Sharp. 1705.

SIMPSON, WILLIAM (of Ochiltree). Songs, &c. 1788.

SMOLLETT, TOBIAS, M. D. Tears of Scotland, Ode to Independence, and other Poems and Plays. 1750.

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STILL, PETER. The Cottar’s Saturday, and other Poems, chiefly in Scottish dialect. 18mo. pp. 216. Philadelphia, 1846.

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SYDSERF, SIR THOMAS. Comedies and Tragedies. 1666.
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THOMAS of ERCILDOUNE. Sir Tristram, a Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century, by Thomas of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer. Edited by Walter Scott, Esquire, Advocate. 8vo. pp. 494. Edinburgh, 1804.

THOMSON, JAMES. The Seasons, Britannia, Liberty, Plays, and Minor Poems. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1736.

TRAIN, JOSEPH. Strains of the Mountain Muse, Funeral of Sir Archibald the Wicked, &c. 1819.

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TYTLER, DR. H. W. Art of Nursing Children: a Poem from the Italian; and Callimachus’ Hymns, translated from the Greek. 1806.

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Footnotes

1 The poet Burns writes of it thus:—“I once, and but once, got a glance of that noble edition of the noblest pastoral in the world; and dear as it was, I mean dear as to my pocket, I would have bought it; but I was told that it was printed and engraved for subscribers only.”
[Burns to Mr. Cunningham, 3d March, 1793.

2 We have before us two editions of the “Tea-table Miscellany;” one in 3 parts or volumes, 9th edition, London, 1733; the other in 4 volumes, 11th edition, London, 1750. Near the end of the second volume this notice occurs in both editions:—
“The following SONGS to be sung in their proper Places on the acting of the Gentle Shepherd, at each the page marked where they come in.”
Then follow the first twenty songs; (Song XXI., which concludes the Pastoral, not being noticed;) at the head of each it is stated by whom sung, and the page where it “comes in” is given. It would seem, therefore, that the songs were mainly intended for “the acting;” and that many copies of the Pastoral were extant without the songs, to the pages of which these references in the “Miscellany” thus formed an index or guide.

3 Allan Ramsay the painter studied his art both at London and Rome. He was the projector and founder of the Select Society of Edinburgh in 1754. In 1767 he was appointed portrait painter to his Majesty. On his return from Italy he died at Dover, on the 10th of August, 1784, leaving a fortune of £40,000. He was twice married, first to Miss Bayne, daughter of Professor Bayne of Edinburgh, and sister of the late gallant Capt. Bayne of the Navy. She brought him one daughter, who died young. His second wife was the eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelich, Baronet, by Emilia, daughter of the Viscount of Stormont, and niece to the great Earl of Mansfield; she was also the sister of the late Sir David and Sir John Lindsay. She died in 1782, and left by Allan Ramsay two daughters and a son. One of his daughters was married to the late General Sir Archibald Campbell, K. B. of Inverneil in Argyleshire, and the other to Colonel Malcolm. His son, John Ramsay, has attained the rank of Lieutenant-General in the army.
Of our Poet’s daughters only two survived him; Christian, who died about the year 1800, and Janet, who died in New-street, Canongate, Edinburgh, on the 14th of January, 1804.

4 A passage in one of those modern cantos of Ramsay’s, describing a husband fascinated homewards from a scene of drunkenness by the gentle persuasions of his wife, has been tastefully selected by Wilkie, and been made the subject of his admirable pencil.
Hogarth dedicated to Ramsay, in 1726, his twelve plates of Hudibras.

5 Cope.

6 To this library Mr. Sibbald succeeded, who greatly augmented it. It is now (1819) in possession of Mr. Mackay, High-street.

7 [“Soon after the first edition, in octavo, of this pastoral was published, and about the time of the publication of his second volume in quarto, the ‘Beggar’s Opera’ made its appearance, with such success that it soon produced a great number of other pieces upon the same musical plan. Amongst the rest, Ramsay, who had always been a great admirer of Gay, especially for his ballads, was so far carried away by the current as to print a new edition of his pastoral, interspersed with songs adapted to the common Scotch tunes, He did not reflect at the time that the ‘Beggar’s Opera’ was only meant as a piece of ironical satire; whereas his ‘Gentle Shepherd’ was a simple imitation of nature, and neither a mimickry nor mockery of any other performance. He was soon, however, sensible of his error, and would have been glad to have retracted those songs; but it was too late; the public was already in possession of them, and as the number of singers is always greater than that of sound critics, the many editions since printed of that pastoral have been almost uniformly in this vitiated taste. He comforted himself, however, with the thought that the contagion had not infected his second volume in quarto, where the ‘Gentle Shepherd’ is still to be found in its original purity.” (General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. XXVI.)

8 [John Smibert, who drew his first breath in the Grass-Market of Edinburgh, was the son of a dyer, and bred a coach painter: but travelling into Italy for instruction, he painted portraits, on his return, at London, till he was induced, by the fascination of Bishop Berkeley, to emigrate with him to Bermuda, and thence to New England. Smibert was born in 1684 and died at Boston, in 1751.
(Life of Ramsay by George Chalmers, in Works, Edition of 1800.)]

9 Unwilling.

10 A feeble ill-grown person.

11 Unwilling.

12 Shaking.

13 Stretching.

14 Chambers’ Scottish Biographical Dictionary.

15 Of a dark complexion.

16 Neat.

17 Exchange.

18 “According to Mr. Tytler, this supposition is founded in error; and the estate of New Hall in the parish of Pennycuik, was to a certainty the legitimate parent of the pastoral. This fact has been since farther confirmed, in a dissertation 19 from the elegant pen of Sir David Rae, Lord Justice-Clerk; a descendant of Sir David Forbes, proprietor of New Hall, and contemporary of Ramsay. Even without such respectable evidence, however, we would inevitably be led to the same conclusion, by the poet’s well known acquaintance with the natural beauties of the landscape at New Hall, where he was a constant and welcome visitor; and because within the boundaries of that fine estate, there is actually to be found all the peculiar scenery, so graphically and beautifully described in the drama.” (Gentle Shepherd, edition of 1828.)

19 Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical account of Scotland; Vol. XVII., appendix.

20 Coats.

21 A sort of bridle.

22 A stout staff.

23 Great.

24 Dangled.

25 Thigh.

26 Shining

27 Strong.

28 Over.

29 Shoulder.

30 White.

31 Waving locks of hair.

32 Climbed.

33 Started up from bed.

34 Breeches.

35 Stallions.

36 Written in 1800.

37 To the last three of these we owe the words of some of the best of the Scotish songs, which are to be found in the collection published by Ramsay, called The Tea-table Miscellany.

38 See Observations on The Vision, by William Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee, in the first volume of the Transactions of Scotish Antiquaries; where that poem, and The Eagle and Robin Redbreast, are proved to be both written by Allan Ramsay.

39 I am convinced, however, from a comparison of many of Ramsay’s interpretations, both in the Glossary to the Evergreen, printed in 1724, and in that, which is subjoined to his Poems, with the interpretations given by Ruddiman in the Glossary to G. Douglas’s Virgil, that Ramsay had made frequent use of the latter for the explanation of the most antiquated words; though he does not seem to have studied it with that care, which his duty as an editor of ancient Scotish poetry certainly required. In proof of this, his obligations to Ruddiman’s Glossary, the reader has only to compare, with the interpretations in that work, the following, given by Ramsay in the Glossary to his Poems: Bodin, Brankan, Camschough, Dern, Douks, Dynles, Elritch, Ettle, Freck, Gousty, Moup, Pawky, Withershins; and the following, in the Glossary to the Evergreen: Crawdon, Galziart, Ithandly, Ourefret, Ruse, Schent, &c.

40 See “A Yorkshire Dialogue in its pure natural dialect;” printed at York, 1684.

41 A learned writer has published, in the Transactions of the Society of Scotish Antiquaries, a Dissertation on the Scoto-Saxon Dialect; of which, as the work is not in every body’s hands, the reader may not be displeased with a short account. The author maintains this proposition; that the Scoto-Saxon dialect was, at the time of the union of the two nations, equal in every respect, and in some respects superior, to the Anglo-Saxon dialect. He lays it down as a principle, that three things constitute the perfection, or rather the relative superiority, of a language: richness, energy, and harmony. He observes, that a language is rich in proportion to the copiousness of its vocabulary, which will principally depend, 1. on the number of its primitive or radical words; 2. on the multiplicity of its derivations and compounds; and, 3. on the variety of its inflections. In all, or almost all of these respects, he shows the superiority of the Scotish dialect of the Saxon to the English. The Scots have all the English primitives, and many hundreds besides. The Scots have derivatives from diminution, which the English entirely want: e. g. hat, hatty, hattiky; lass, lassie, lassiky. The degrees of diminution are almost unlimited: wife, wifie, wifiky, wee wifiky, wee wee wifiky, &c. Both the English, and Scots, dialects are poor in the inflections; but the Glossary to Douglas’s Virgil will shew that the Scotish inflections are both more various, and less anomalous, than the English. Energy is the boast both of the English, and the Scotish, dialects; but, in this author’s opinion, the Scotish poetry can furnish some compositions of far superior energy to any cotemporary English production. With respect to harmony, he gives his suffrage likewise in favour of the Scotish dialect. He observes, that the sh rarely occurs; its place being supplied by the simple s, as in polis, punis, sal, &c. The s itself is often supplied by the liquids m or n; as in expreme, depreme; compone, depone. Harsh combinations of consonants are avoided: as in using sel, twal, neglek, temp, stown or stawn, for self, twelve, neglect, tempt, stolen. Even the vowel sounds are, in this author’s opinion, more harmonious, in the Scots, than in the English, dialect; as the open a, and the proper Italic sound of i. For further elucidation of this curious subject, the Dissertation itself must be referred to, which will abundantly gratify the critical reader. It is proper here to observe, that the remarks of this writer are the more worthy of attention, that he is himself an excellent Scotish poet, as the compositions subjoined to his Dissertation clearly evince. Three Scotish Poems, with a previous Dissertation on the Scoto-Saxon Dialect, by the Rev. Alexander Geddes, LL.D., Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. i., p. 402.

42 In the quarto of 1728, the following note is subjoined to the first scene of the Gentle Shepherd:—“This first scene is the only piece in this volume that was printed in the first: having carried the pastoral the length of five acts, at the desire of some persons of distinction, I was obliged to print this preluding scene with the rest.”

43
When the sentiments are drawn from nature, it is not surprising
that, where the subject is similar, there should be a concurrence
of thought between two genuine poets, who never saw each other’s
works. How similar is the following passage of the 10th satire of
Boileau to the imagery of this beautiful family picture!
Quelle joie en effet, quelle douceur extreme
De se voir caresser d’une epouse qu’on aime;—
De voir autour de soi croitre dans la maison,
Sous les paisibles loix d’une agréable mere
De petits citoyens dont on croit être pere!
Quel charme au moindre mal qui nous vient menacer
De la voir aussitot accourir, s’empresser, &c.

44 So little has Ramsay borrowed from the ordinary language of pastoral, which is generally a tame imitation of the dialogue of Virgil and. Theocritus, that in the whole of the Scotish poem there are (I think) only three passages that bring to mind those common-places which, in the eclogues of Pope, we find almost in every line:
The bees shall loath the flower, and quit the hive,
The saughs on boggie-ground shall cease to thrive,
Ere scornful queans, &c. Act 1, Scene 1.
I’ve seen with shining fair the morning rise,
And soon the sleety clouds mirk a’ the skies.
I’ve seen the silver spring a while rin clear,
And soon in mossy puddles disappear.
The bridegroom may rejoice, &c. Act 3, Scene 3.
See yon twa elms that grow up side by side,
Suppose them, some years syne, bridegroom and bride; &c.
Act 1, Scene 2.

45 Aikin’s Essays on Song-Writing, p. 33.

46 Beattie’s Essays, p. 652. Ed. 1776.

47 Poetical Remains of James 1st of Scotland; p. 189.

48 Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric, vol. iii. p. 126.

49 Ancient Scotish Poems. Vol. I. London, 1786.

50 Ritson’s Hist. Essay on Scotish Song, p. lxiii.

51 Roscoe’s Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, vol. i. p. 296.

52 Campbell’s British Poetry, vol. v. pp. 344-346.

53 A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, by L. Hunt, p. 106. London, 1848.

54 Lives of Eminent Scotsmen. London, 1821.

55 We are indebted for this anecdote to the venerable George Thomson, Esq., the correspondent of Burns and publisher of his finest songs, now living and in the 93d year of his age, who had it from—Macgowan, Esq., a gentleman formerly well known in this city, as having been told him by Lady Strange herself. [Ramsay’s Poems. Ed. 1850

56 “This is the same dignified lady, to whom, at the age of eighty-five, Johnson, and Boswell, offered their homage; whose powers of pleasing continued so resplendent as to charm the fastidious sage into a declaration that, in visiting such a woman, he had spent his day well. This celebrated patroness of poets was the accomplished daughter of the noble house of Kennedy, who having married, in 1708, Alexander the Earl of Eglinton, by whom she had three sons, two of whom succeeded to the earldom, and seven daughters who married into honourable families, died on the 18th of March, 1780, at the patriarchal age of ninety-one.”—Geo. Chalmers’ Life of Ramsay, page xxxiv., edition of 1800.

57 To weaker sight, set these, &c.
Having done me the honour of turning some of my pastoral poems into English, justly and elegantly.

58 Frae his pen.
His valuable Naval History.]

59 In some editions, Madge.

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