A collection of Scots poems on several occasions [ESTC T226409]

DMI number:

1237

Publication Date:

1769

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T226409

Shelfmark:

Aberdeen University Library - pi MN 14.253

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS | By the late | Mr ALEXANDER PENNECUIK, Gent. | and OTHERS. | [epigraph] | EDINBURGH : | Printed for J. WOOD Bookseller. | M DCC LXIX.

Epigraph:

Of all the ways that wisest men could find, | To mend the age, and mortify mankind ; | Satyr well wrote has most successful prov'd, | And cures because the remedy is lov'd. | E. of ROSC.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Genres:

Collection of Scottish verse, Collection including prose, and Collection includes verse in other languages

Format:

Unknown

Pagination:

[i-ii], 1-154 pp. p. 30 mispaginated as 40.

Comments:

Latin verses: Polemo-Middinia, Inter Vitarvum et Nebernam. (pp. 148-153) Praelium Gillikrankianum. Cantilena. (pp. 153-154)

Related People

Publisher:

J. Wood

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The powers above on fair Britannia smile

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pp.[1]-7

Poem Title:

The Edinburgh Cuckolds

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On a winters night my gran'am spinning

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pp.7-13

Poem Title:

Merry Tales For The lang Nights of Winter. In Dialogues betwixt the Tinklarian Doctor and his Grandam, &c.

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The authors of romances and novels

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pp.14-17

Poem Title:

The Fair Maid of Dunblane.

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A furlong or so from bonny Dumblain

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pp.18-20

Poem Title:

A Song, to the Tune of Morning O'Geberland.

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Travelling of late in fogs and through thick mist

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pp.21-23

Poem Title:

The Marriage betwixt Scrape, Monarch of the Maunders, and Blubberlips, Queen of the Gypsies.

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Cast our caps and care away

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Beggars Song, out of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays.

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Bless your worships throw us a penny

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p.24

Poem Title:

The Begging Cant.

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Here in peace and love we dwell

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

The Song.

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Beauty is justly termed a divine ray

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pp.25-27

Poem Title:

An Amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell, to Eleonora, a Lady Nun.

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He did not live upon the earth

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Epitaph on George Patterson, who hewed out the subterranean Caves at Gilmerton.

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Stop passenger until my life you read

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Marjory Scott of Dunkeld.

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Upon the earth thrives villainy and woe

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p.28

Poem Title:

Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton.

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Here lies a reverend Givan priest

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p.29

Poem Title:

On John Pettigrew Minister at Givan.

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Here lies interred beside a witch

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Lady Shaw's Epitaph. In Greenock Church-yard.

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I John Bell smith lies under this stain

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p.30

Poem Title:

On John Bell.

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My sledge and hammer both declined

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p.30

Poem Title:

On a Black-smith.

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Reader bid every taylor leave his house

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p.30

Poem Title:

On George Button Taylor.

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Through Christ I'm not inferior

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p.30

Poem Title:

On Thomas Rymour Maltman in Coupar.

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Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney

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p.31

Poem Title:

On George Faichney.

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Edinburgh may say oh hon

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pp.31-33

Poem Title:

On William Lithgow Writer in Edinburgh.

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Here lies More and no more than he

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p.31

Poem Title:

On Mr. William More.

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Kind France gave me my birth and tender life

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pp.33-34

Poem Title:

On Nicol Vilant at Torphichen.

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Here lies a lady who if not belied

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p.34

Poem Title:

On a Lady.

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Here old Sarum lies

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p.34

Poem Title:

On Bishop Burnet.

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Tho. Brown.

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Thomas Brown

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Beneath this stone here lies a man

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p.35

Poem Title:

On a Dwarf at Kilsyth.

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Here lies Boatman West

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p.35

Poem Title:

On West the Boatman.

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Here lies entombed a married man's great woe

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p.35

Poem Title:

On a Scold.

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Here lies interred our good old auntie

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p.35

Poem Title:

On one unknown.

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Here lies John Smith

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pp.35-36

Poem Title:

On John Smith.

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First Line:

Let earth take earth the devil his sins again

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p.35

Poem Title:

On Janet Beatie at Montrose.

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He of drumcarro tenant was

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p.36

Poem Title:

On John Simpson in St. Andrews.

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First Line:

Here lies a ploughman good enough

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p.36

Poem Title:

Over the spade, shovel, yoke, and coffin, within a shield, is written.

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Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

On an Old Woman

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Here lies John Davidson

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p.36

Poem Title:

On John Davidson in Aberdeen.

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Here lies John Spier

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p.36

Poem Title:

On John Spier.

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Here lies the corpse of Laird M'Near

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p.36

Poem Title:

On Laird M'Near.

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A prison is a house of care

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p.37

Poem Title:

The Character of a Prison

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First Line:

That day when Meg fair taste got

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pp.37-46

Poem Title:

The Merry Wives of Musselburgh's Welcome to Meg Dickson.

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The judges me condemned have

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pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Meg Dickson's Loup from the Ladder.

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From ancient nest did spring a droll muir-cock

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

A Tale of a Muir-Cock.

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Judges of old amongst the feathered flock

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p.48

Poem Title:

The Trial of the Muir Cock.

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Muir-cock you stand accused of being a cheat

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Indictment.

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Muir-cock for this high aggravated crime

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p.49

Poem Title:

The Sentence.

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Three times the carlin grained and rifted

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pp.49-51

Poem Title:

Lucky Spence's Last Advice.

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Dole dole dear cummers dismal news

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

The Wife's Tears.

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A gauger never can be called a fool

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pp.53-54

Poem Title:

The Character of a Gauger.

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O cano'gate poor elritch hole

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pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May 1717.

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Beneath this sod

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p.56

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

The Character of a Vintnee.

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Auld reeky mourn in sable hue

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pp.57-59

Poem Title:

Elegy on Maggy Johnston, who died anno 1711.

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A whipman is the greatest prince of nature

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p.60

Poem Title:

The Character of a Whipman.

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Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun

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p.60

Poem Title:

Inscriptions in the Carters Hall in Leith.

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First Line:

I warn you a' to greet and drone

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Elegy on John Couper, Kirk-treasurer's Man, Anno 1714.

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Of unquhile John to lie or ban

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Postscript.

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A zealous brother of the canting crew

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

The Zealous Constable.

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Thee famous fidler of Kinghorn

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on Patie Birnie.

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Hab Simpson

First Line:

In sonnet flee the man I sing

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pp.65-68

Poem Title:

The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on Patie Birnie.

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Flushed with a double draught of double strong

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pp.68-70

Poem Title:

A Dialogue betwixt a Malt-Man and an Excise-Man.

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An old bold warrior lies within this clay

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p.70

Poem Title:

Sir John Barlycorn's Epitaph.

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First Line:

Kilbarchan now may say alas

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pp.70-72

Poem Title:

The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan; or, | The Epitaph of Habbie Simpson, | Wha on his drone bore bonny flags, | He made his cheeks as red as crimson, | And bobbed when he blew his bags.

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These fifty years I have been gathering gods

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p.73

Poem Title:

On a Miser.

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A story reached my ears some days ago

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p.73

Poem Title:

A Tale of a Beau and a Barber.

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There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive

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p.74

Poem Title:

The Self-Tormentor.

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Few of the grave and wise delight to go

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pp.74-76

Poem Title:

The Edinburgh Maid.

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All you that in your beds do lie

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p.76

Poem Title:

The Pretended Town-Cryer.

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By a gentleman who borrowed the bell man's cloak and bell, and rung, and repeated the verses as under, thro' the streets of Edinburgh, at four o'clock in the morning, May 10 1720.

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Since Will and Meg are married

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pp.76-77

Poem Title:

Will. and Meg.

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Why should I weep why censured by the law

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p.76

Poem Title:

The Lost Maidenhead.

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Saw not thy seed in sandilands

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p.77

Poem Title:

Advice to the King, 1532.

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Was never in Scotland heard or seen

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pp.77-93

Poem Title:

The Country Wake, At Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.

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There is a little god called love

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pp.94-101

Poem Title:

The Heathen Heroes; or, Vulcan Cuckolded by a Mare.

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At Cana once heaven's Lord was pleased

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p.101

Poem Title:

On the 28th May, G.I.

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Datty how goes the honest trade

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pp.102-109

Poem Title:

The Presbyterian Pope.

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The zealot

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p.102

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Who prompts the spouse

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p.102

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But. Posth. Works.

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I do believe tis in my power

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pp.109-110

Poem Title:

The Kirk-Treasurer's Creed.

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Papists ye'er fairly foiled think shame and blush

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The Cameronian Tooth.

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When popery was pulled down in days of yore

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pp.111-117

Poem Title:

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

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Pannels you are indicted as rascals

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pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Burnbank and Faichney's Indictment/

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Revrend matrons of assize

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p.119-120

Poem Title:

Lady Ballop's Speech to the Jury.

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The ladies having heard complaint

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p.119

Poem Title:

Interlocutor.

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The ladies of judiciary court

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p.120

Poem Title:

Sentence of the Court.

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We the inquest do report

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p.120

Poem Title:

Verdict of the Inquest.

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All ye good people of this city

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p.121

Poem Title:

Faichney's Speech on the Ladder.

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On ship board went the church at heaven's command

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pp.121-123

Poem Title:

The Seaman & Carpenter's honours.

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The ark when crammed with unclean beasts was not

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p.121

Poem Title:

Burnbacnk's Fairwel.

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Where went the virgin mother of our god

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pp.123-124

Poem Title:

The Stablers Honours.

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A new born world the gardener's task began

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pp.124-125

Poem Title:

The Gardeners Honours.

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Now lend your lugs ye benders fine

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pp.126-132

Poem Title:

The Miller Cuckolded.

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Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk

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pp.132-136

Poem Title:

Elegy on Robert Forbes.

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Here all alone

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p.136

Poem Title:

His Epitaph.

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Long have we had two kings I do assure you

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pp.136-137

Poem Title:

On the Sign of the Three Kings.

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Tom was sae subtile and sae fu' o greed

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p.136

Poem Title:

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

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Wha's dainty bairn are ye my winsome dear

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pp.137-138

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Sign of the Mermaid.

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To the worshipful cordiners of the west port

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pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Petition of the Shoe-maker Apprentices.

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Fairest and finest of the female kind

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pp.139-140

Poem Title:

To a Lady on her discovering a Spring.

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Here lies a man a happy man was he

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p.139

Poem Title:

On a poor Frenchman who died of joy on hearing he was entitled to a prize of 1000 livres.

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Are not the ravens fed great god by thee

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p.140

Poem Title:

On Providence.

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Stately stept he east the wa

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pp.140-148

Poem Title:

Hardyknute, a Fragment.

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