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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)

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VOL. I.—(Poems: 1721)
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VOL. II.—(Poems: 1728)
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VOL. III.—(Poems: Miscellaneous and Uncollected)
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PART I. Poems published during Ramsay's Lifetime.
  
TO MR. LAW. [1720]
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A Tale of Three Bonnets: 1722
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From Fables and Tales [1722]
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From The British Journal: March 9, 1723
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From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1724–29]
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SONGS INSERTED IN THE GENTLE SHEPHERD [1725–34]
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From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1729]
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From The Evergreen [1724]
  
THE VISION
  
THE Eagle and Robin Red-breist
  
POSTSCRIPT
  
AN ODE Sacred to the MEMORY Of Her Grace ANNE Dutchess of HAMILTON .
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From Poems in English and Latin on the Archers and Royal Company of Archers [1726]
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From The Caledonian Mercury: July 12, 1726.
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From Poems [1729]
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From The Echo, or Edinburgh Weekly Journal: 29th January, 1729
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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.
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From The Caledonian Mercury, August 2, 1736
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From The Caledonian Mercury, November 8, 1736
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From The Scots Magazine, October, 1741
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PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.
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VOL. IV.—(Poems not hitherto collected: Poems attributed to Ramsay)

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SANG IV. O dear Mother, what shall I do?

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Sung by Jenny p. 11. [P. 220, l. 71.]

O dear Peggy love's beguiling,
We ought not to trust his smiling.
Better far to do as I do,
Lest a harder luck betyde you.
Lasses when their fancy's carried,
Think of nought but to be married;
Running to a life destroys
Heartsome, free, and youthfu' joys.
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