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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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SANG I. The wawking of the Faulds
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SANG II. Fy gar rub her o'er with Strae
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SANG III. Polwart on the Green.
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SANG IV. O dear Mother, what shall I do?
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SANG V. How can I be sad on my Wedding-Day.
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SANG VI. Nansy's to the Green Wood gane.
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SANG VII. Cald Kale in Aberdeen
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SANG VIII. Mucking of Geordy's Byer.
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SANG X. Winter was cauld, and my Cleathing was thin.
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SANG XII. Happy Clown
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SANG XIII. Leith-Wynd.
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SANG XIV. O'er Bogie.
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SANG XV. Wat ye wha I met Yestreen.
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SANG XVI. Kirk wad let me be.
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SANG XVII. Woes my heart that we shou'd sunder.
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SANG XVIII. Tweed-side.
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SANG XIX. Bush aboon Traquair.
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SANG XX. Bony gray ey'd Morn.
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From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1729]
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From The Evergreen [1724]
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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 XII. Happy Clown

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Sung by Sir William, p. 35. [P. 238, l. 48.]

Hid from himself, now by the dawn
He starts as fresh as roses blawn,
And ranges o'er the heights and lawn,
After his bleeting flocks.
Healthful, and innocently gay
He chants, and whistles out the day;
Untaught to smile, and then betray,
Like courtly weathercocks.
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Life happy from ambition free,
Envy and vile hypocrisie,
Where truth and love with joys agree,
Unsullied with a crime:
Unmov'd with what disturbs the great,
In proping of their pride and state;
He lives, and unafraid of fate,
Contented spends his time.
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