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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]

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SONGS INSERTED IN THE GENTLE SHEPHERD [1725–34]

I.

SANG I. The wawking of the Faulds

II.

SANG II. Fy gar rub her o'er with Strae

III.

SANG III. Polwart on the Green.

IV.

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

V.

SANG V. How can I be sad on my Wedding-Day.

VI.

SANG VI. Nansy's to the Green Wood gane.

VII.

SANG VII. Cald Kale in Aberdeen

VIII.

SANG VIII. Mucking of Geordy's Byer.

X.

SANG X. Winter was cauld, and my Cleathing was thin.

XII.

SANG XII. Happy Clown

XIII.

SANG XIII. Leith-Wynd.

XIV.

SANG XIV. O'er Bogie.

XV.

SANG XV. Wat ye wha I met Yestreen.

XVI.

SANG XVI. Kirk wad let me be.

XVII.

SANG XVII. Woes my heart that we shou'd sunder.

XVIII.

SANG XVIII. Tweed-side.

XIX.

SANG XIX. Bush aboon Traquair.

XX.

SANG XX. Bony gray ey'd Morn.

From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1729]

From The Evergreen [1724]

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

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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SANG X. Winter was cauld, and my Cleathing was thin.

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Sung by Peggy and Patie, p. 30. [P. 235, l. 76.]

PEGGY.
When first my dear laddie gade to the green hill,
And I at ew-milking first seyd my young skill,
To bear the milk-bowie, nae pain was to me,
When I at the bughting forgather'd with thee.

PATIE.
When corn-riggs wav'd yellow, and blew hether-bells
Bloom'd bonny on moorland and sweet rising fells,
Nae birns, brier, or breckens, gave trouble to me,
If I found the berries right ripen'd for thee.

PEGGY.
When thou ran, or wrestled, or putted the stane,
And came aff the victor, my heart was ay fain:
Thy ilka sport manly, gave pleasure to me;
For nane can put, wrestle or run swift as thee.

PATIE.
Our Jenny sings saftly the Cowden Broom-Knows,
And Rosie lilts sweetly the milking the ews;

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There's few Jenny Nettles like Nansy can sing,
At throw the wood laddie, Bess gars our lugs ring:
But when my dear Peggy sings with better skill,
The boat-man, tweed-side, or the lass of the mill,
'Tis many times sweeter and pleasing to me;
For tho' they sing nicely, they cannot like thee.

PEGGY.
How easy can lasses trow what they desire?
And praises sae kindly increases love's fire;
Give me still this pleasure, my study shall be
To make my self better and sweeter for thee.

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Omitted here is SANG XI. By the delicious warmness of thy mouth. Sung by Patie and Peggy, p. 32, printed in the Pastoral; and in Tea-Table Miscellany, Vol. I. p. 151. [In S.T.S. Edition. Vol. I: pp. 183–4 and Vol. II: p. 236.]