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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]
  
DEDICATION
  
A Scots Cantata
  
The TOAST.
  
A South-Sea Sang.
  
Hap me with thy Petticoat.
  
Fy gar rub her o'er wi' Strae.
  
THE CORDIAL
  
ALLAN-WATER:
  
To L. M. M.
  
This is not mine ain House.
  
My Dady forbad, my Minny forbad.
  
[O steer her up, and had her gawn]
  
Clout the Caldron.
  
The Malt-Man.
  
Bonny BESSY.
  
The Quadruple Alliance.
  
The Complaint
  
The young Lass contra auld Man.
  
SONG
  
Sleepy Body, drowsy Body.
  
SONG
  
The Highland Lassie.
  
The Auld Man's Best Argument.
  
SONG
  
On the Marriage of the R. H. L. G--- and L. K--- C---.
  
Jenny Nettles.
  
For the Sake of Some-body.
  
THE GENEROUS GENTLEMAN.
  
The Cock Laird
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SONGS INSERTED IN THE GENTLE SHEPHERD [1725–34]
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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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Song 1.

[I have a soft spirit & do what I dou]

I have a soft spirit & do what I dou
Dear Trapolin will have the guiding o't
While he talks & he smiles my hearts in a low
and now ther is no longer hiding o't
he hugs me & Jugs me and calls me his sweet
he ralles & Raves while he falls at my feet
by his constant adress his love seems complete
yet still I'm afraid of the abiding o't
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