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The poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell

... Now first collected and edited, with memoir, by Robert Howie Smith

Boswell, Alexander (1775-1822)

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[PART I.] SONGS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT.

THE MAID OF ISLA—SONG.

EAST NUIK O' FIFE—SONG.

JENNY'S BAWBEE—SONG.

JENNY DANG THE WEAVER—SONG.

THE CHANGE OF EDINBURGH—SONG.

TO AN IRISH AIR—SONG.

SHELAH O'NEAL—SONG.

SONG. FREU'T EUCH DES LIBENS.

ON THE FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS IN THE REBELLION, 1745–6.

TO A GERMAN AIR—SONG.

BRAES OF OCHTERTYRE—SONG.

THE EXILE'S RETURN—SONG.

CAPTAIN O'FLYN AND MISS DOLLY O'LYNN—DUET.

THE OLD CHIEFTAIN TO HIS SONS—SONG.

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II.

EDINBURGH; OR, THE ANCIENT ROYALTY:

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CLAN-ALPIN'S VOW:

1.

2.

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L'Argument Prosaique.

THE BENISON; OR P.P.C.

THE SPIRIT OF TINTOC;

EPISTLE TO THE Edinburgh Reviewers.

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SONGS IN THE Justiciary Opera,

(Martial Music.)

(A Grand Procession.)

Skeldon Haughs;

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SCENE, An Inn.
Caliendrosus Maximus and Hystrix.
DUET.
[_]

Air—Saw ye my Father.

Cal.
Saw ye my Trumpeter?
Or saw ye my Macer?
Or saw ye my man John?

Hyst.
I have not seen your Trumpeter,
I have not seen your Macer,
And drunk is your man John.