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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)

VOL. I.—(Poems: 1721)

II.

VOL. II.—(Poems: 1728)

III.

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

IV.

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

POEMS NOT HITHERTO COLLECTED

To Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers, on presenting him with my book.

A Dedication to The Fables

On The Dutches of Marlbrugh's offer of five hundred pounds to the poet that would make the best Elegy on the Duke.

Annother Epigram or Epitaph on the above Subject [The Dutches of Marlbrugh's offer of five hundred pounds to the poet that would make the best Elegy on the Duke].

Epitaph for His Grace the Duke of Marlbrugh.

On the Royal Company of Scottish Archers.

The Roundell to her Health

Fable of the Lost Calf

Epigram

Another Epigram

Songs from The Devil of a Duke or Trappolin's Vagaries (1733).

The merry meeting on The Moor

On false Greatness

An Exchange of Epistles

Bogi-Dow a Sang to the Tune of Jeny Beguild the wobster.

[Verses] To the tune of Over the hills and far away.

On Priests not marrying.

On the Clergy's minding themsells mair than their flock.

[Fragment]

[Fragment of a Song]

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POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO RAMSAY

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Let them censure, what care I?
The Herd of Criticks I defy.
No, no, the Fair, the Gay, the Young
Govern the Numbers of my Song:
All that they approve is sweet,
And all is Sense that they repete.

Prior from Anacreon.