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A collection of scots poems on several occasions

by the late Mr. Alexander Pennecuik, Gent. And Others

Pennecuik, Alexander

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SCOTS POEMS, &c.

MERRY TALES For the lang Nights of Winter.

Inscription in the Carters Hall in Leith.

The Self-tormentor.

The Pretended Town-cryer.

The Lost Maidenhead.

On the 28th May, G. I.

The Presbyterian Pope.

The Kirk-Treasurer's Creed.

The Cameronian Tooth.

Rome's Legacy to the Kirk of Scotland; A Satyr on the Stool of Repentance.

The Stablers Honours.

The Gardeners Honours.

Elegy on ROBERT FORBES.

On the Downfal of Thomas Butter's Nose in the Month of June.

On the Sign of the Three Kings.

A Poem on the Sign of the Mermaid.

Petition of the Shoemaker Apprentices.

Lucky SPENCE's Last Advice.

Elegy on Lucky WOOD in the Canon gate, May 1717.

Elegy on MAGGY JOHNSTON who died anno 1711.

Elegy on JOHN COUPER, Kirk-treasurer's Man, Anno 1714.

The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on PATIE BIRNIE.

Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton.

On JOHN PETTIGREW Minister at Givan.

Lady SHAW's Epitaph.

On THOMAS RYMOUR Maltman in Coupar.

On a Blacksmith.

On GEORGE FAICHNEY.

On JANET BEATIE at Montrose.

On WEST the Boatman.

On a Dwarf at Kilsyth.

On one unknown.

On JOHN SIMPSON in St. Andrews.

On an Old Woman.

The Character of a Prison

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Lady SHAW's Epitaph.

Here lies interr'd beside a witch,
Th'oppressor both of poor and rich:

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How she sends, and how she fares,
De'il ane kens, and as few cares.