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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)

I.

PART I. Poems published during Ramsay's Lifetime.

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II.

PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.

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1.

(1) Poems for which dates can be assigned.

To the Most Happy Members of the Easy Club, 1712

On Andrew Brown Hanging Himself

A Rebuke to Antony Uneasy

THE LAMENTATION

To the Right Honourable George, Lord Ramsay

[To Mr. Jo. Kerr of King's College, Aberdeen]

ON THE MARRIAGE OF URBAN AND BELLA. JULY 10th, 1721.

To His Grace John Duke Of Roxburgh,

TO THE MEMORY OF MARY, DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BEAUFORT AND COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DUNDONALD

SILVIA TO A--- R---

ANSWER Octr 1722

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The Pleasures of Improv[e]ments in Agriculture

[To the Duke of Queensberry]

A Pastoral Welcome To her Grace Cathrine Dutches of Queensbery on her coming first to Scotland June 1723

[To the Duchess of Queensberry]

[Another Poem to the Duchess of Queensberry]

On the B[ritish] P[arliament's] design of Taking The Bounty off the Victual exported. Decemr 1724

[A Dedication for the Evergreen]

SOME FEW OF THE CONTENTS [of The Evergreen]

[FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE]

Allan Ramsay Bard to the Royall Company July 13 1724

[The Men of Totness Town]

[A Poem to Mr. Drummond]

[A Jacobite Poem]

Again the Royal Band in fair array

[To the Royal Company of Archers]

[A Marching Song]

[To a Gentleman in Ireland]

To my unknown Corospondent in Irland

On the Ever Green's being gathered out of this Manuscript By Allan Ramsay who had the Loan of it from the Honourable Mr William Carmichaell Advocat Brother german to the Earl of Hynford

ANSWER [TO LADY SOMERVILLE'S POEM]

[To William Somerville]

THE MILLER AND HIS MAN:

THE CLEVER OFFCOME

[A Prologue for Julius Caesar]

[A Prologue to The Gentle Shepherd]

[An Epilogue for a Schoolplay]

[An Elegy in Memory of William Aikman]

[A Second Elegy on William Aikman]

[In Memory of a Youth]

[Reversal of Situation]

[A Prologue to Macbeth]

KATE AND SUSAN,

TO THE Rt HONble SUSANA, COUNTESS OF EGLINTOUN.

To Dr Robinson when at Edinburgh July 30th 1734

[AN ELEGY ON THE COUNTESS OF MORAY]

[In Praise of Caroline]

To the Countes of Eglingtoun with the bass-relief Bustos of the 12 Cesars

Dalkieths Welcome to Her prince

Epistle to John Wardlaw

UPON THE RIGHT REV(EREN)D RALPH ERSKIN

MR. EBENEZER ERSKINS PROTEST

[On Church Patronage]

THE MARROW BALLAD

TO MR. JAMES HOME

EPISTLE TO MR. H. S. AT LONDON NOVr 1738

ON GEORGE WHITEFIELD THE STROLLING PREACHER

To Dr Cunninghame

'TIS WELL THATS NOT WARSE

[A POEM OF CIVIC REJOICING]

TO L[ADY] D[ICK]

TO DOCTOR BOSWELL With the Two Vols. of my Poems.

[EPITAPH ON ROBERT MYLNE]

AN EPISTLE WROTE FROM MAVISBANK MARCH 1748 TO A FRIEND IN EDR.

To the Lairds of Annandale Conjunctly & Severaly A. R. not Greeting, wishes them all a good Bridle-Hand

[To George Clerk of Drumcrieff)

[THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF RALPH ERSKINE]

VERSES ADDRESST TO THE MAVIS WELL WHICH FLOWS IN THE GARDENS OF MAVIS BANK

TO Sir ALEXander DICK OF PRESTONFIELD, BARONET, WITH MR. RAMSAY'S POEMS IN THIS AND SECOND VOLUME

AN EPISTLE TO JAMES CLERK, ESQ. OF PENNYCUIK

2.

(2) Poems for which dates have not been established.

IV.

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

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To Dr Robinson when at Edinburgh July 30th 1734

Now troth dear Doctor it is kind
and shaws a Cowthie Aefauld mind
in you wha live sae far away
on Brittain's sunny side of the Brae
to dawt and clap a Northern pow
owning his roundels easy row
I own I like the scawpy height
where men maist sib to Gods delight
yet pay my debts and school my Weans
by canny conduct of my gains
and fowk think that ane unko ferly
'cause poets play that part sae rarely

232

Thanks to Queensberry and the rest
wha gave what biggit up my nest
when Quarto volume chancd to get in
five hundreds frae the best in Brittain
for which I'll chant and shaw I'm gratefull
'till canker'd Eild make singing hatefull