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The works of Allan Ramsay

edited by Burns Martin ... and John W. Oliver [... and Alexander M. Kinghorn ... and Alexander Law]

Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)

I.

VOL. I.—(Poems: 1721)

II.

VOL. II.—(Poems: 1728)

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III.

VOL. III.—(Poems: Miscellaneous and Uncollected)

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I.

PART I. Poems published during Ramsay's Lifetime.

TO MR. LAW. [1720]

A Tale of Three Bonnets: 1722

From Fables and Tales [1722]

From The British Journal: March 9, 1723

From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1724–29]

SONGS INSERTED IN THE GENTLE SHEPHERD [1725–34]

From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1729]

From The Evergreen [1724]

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From Poems in English and Latin on the Archers and Royal Company of Archers [1726]

The POET'S Thanks to the ARCHERS, on being admitted into their Royal Company.

The ARCHERS March.

From The Caledonian Mercury: July 12, 1726.

From Poems [1729]

From The Echo, or Edinburgh Weekly Journal: 29th January, 1729

From The Scarborough Miscellany: 1732.

ADDRESS of Thanks from the Society of Rakes. [1735]

EPISTLE to the Reverend Philosarchus Minister of the Kirk of Scotland, occasioned by his late Essay, proving the Lawfulness of FORNICATION.

From The Caledonian Mercury, August 2, 1736

From The Caledonian Mercury, November 8, 1736

From The Scots Magazine, October, 1741

II.

PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.

IV.

VOL. IV.—(Poems not hitherto collected: Poems attributed to Ramsay)

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Fy gar rub her o'er wi' Strae.

Gin ye meet a bonny Lassie,
Gie 'er a Kiss and let her gae,
But if ye meet a dirty Hussy,
Fy gar rub her o'er wi' Strae.

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[The rest is, with slight differences of spelling and punctuation, identical with lines 33–60 of To the Ph--- an Ode (S.T.S., Vol. I, pp. 224–225).]