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)
- Publisher:
- J. Wood
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The powers above on fair Britannia smile
- Page No:
- pp.[1]-7
- Poem Title:
- The Edinburgh Cuckolds
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On a winters night my gran'am spinning
- Page No:
- pp.7-13
- Poem Title:
- Merry Tales For The lang Nights of Winter. In Dialogues betwixt the Tinklarian Doctor and his Grandam, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The authors of romances and novels
- Page No:
- pp.14-17
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Maid of Dunblane.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A furlong or so from bonny Dumblain
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- A Song, to the Tune of Morning O'Geberland.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Travelling of late in fogs and through thick mist
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- The Marriage betwixt Scrape, Monarch of the Maunders, and Blubberlips, Queen of the Gypsies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cast our caps and care away
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Beggars Song, out of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bless your worships throw us a penny
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Begging Cant.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here in peace and love we dwell
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- The Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beauty is justly termed a divine ray
- Page No:
- pp.25-27
- Poem Title:
- An Amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell, to Eleonora, a Lady Nun.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He did not live upon the earth
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on George Patterson, who hewed out the subterranean Caves at Gilmerton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stop passenger until my life you read
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Marjory Scott of Dunkeld.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Upon the earth thrives villainy and woe
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a reverend Givan priest
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- On John Pettigrew Minister at Givan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies interred beside a witch
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- Lady Shaw's Epitaph. In Greenock Church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I John Bell smith lies under this stain
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- On John Bell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sledge and hammer both declined
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- On a Black-smith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader bid every taylor leave his house
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- On George Button Taylor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through Christ I'm not inferior
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- On Thomas Rymour Maltman in Coupar.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- On George Faichney.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Edinburgh may say oh hon
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- On William Lithgow Writer in Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies More and no more than he
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. William More.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kind France gave me my birth and tender life
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- On Nicol Vilant at Torphichen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a lady who if not belied
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here old Sarum lies
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Bishop Burnet.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Brown.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone here lies a man
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On a Dwarf at Kilsyth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies Boatman West
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On West the Boatman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies entombed a married man's great woe
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On a Scold.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies interred our good old auntie
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On one unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Smith
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- On John Smith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let earth take earth the devil his sins again
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On Janet Beatie at Montrose.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He of drumcarro tenant was
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On John Simpson in St. Andrews.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a ploughman good enough
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- Over the spade, shovel, yoke, and coffin, within a shield, is written.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- On an Old Woman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Davidson
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On John Davidson in Aberdeen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Spier
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On John Spier.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the corpse of Laird M'Near
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On Laird M'Near.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A prison is a house of care
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Prison
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That day when Meg fair taste got
- Page No:
- pp.37-46
- Poem Title:
- The Merry Wives of Musselburgh's Welcome to Meg Dickson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The judges me condemned have
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Meg Dickson's Loup from the Ladder.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From ancient nest did spring a droll muir-cock
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- A Tale of a Muir-Cock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Judges of old amongst the feathered flock
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- The Trial of the Muir Cock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muir-cock you stand accused of being a cheat
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Indictment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muir-cock for this high aggravated crime
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- The Sentence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Three times the carlin grained and rifted
- Page No:
- pp.49-51
- Poem Title:
- Lucky Spence's Last Advice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dole dole dear cummers dismal news
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- The Wife's Tears.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A gauger never can be called a fool
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Gauger.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O cano'gate poor elritch hole
- Page No:
- pp.54-56
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May 1717.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this sod
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Vintnee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Auld reeky mourn in sable hue
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Maggy Johnston, who died anno 1711.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A whipman is the greatest prince of nature
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Whipman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Inscriptions in the Carters Hall in Leith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I warn you a' to greet and drone
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on John Couper, Kirk-treasurer's Man, Anno 1714.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of unquhile John to lie or ban
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A zealous brother of the canting crew
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- The Zealous Constable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thee famous fidler of Kinghorn
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on Patie Birnie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Hab Simpson
- First Line:
- In sonnet flee the man I sing
- Page No:
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- The Life and Acts of, or an Elegy on Patie Birnie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Flushed with a double draught of double strong
- Page No:
- pp.68-70
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue betwixt a Malt-Man and an Excise-Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An old bold warrior lies within this clay
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Sir John Barlycorn's Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kilbarchan now may say alas
- Page No:
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These fifty years I have been gathering gods
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- On a Miser.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A story reached my ears some days ago
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- A Tale of a Beau and a Barber.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive
- Page No:
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- The Self-Tormentor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Few of the grave and wise delight to go
- Page No:
- pp.74-76
- Poem Title:
- The Edinburgh Maid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All you that in your beds do lie
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- The Pretended Town-Cryer.
- Attribution:
- 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.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since Will and Meg are married
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Will. and Meg.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should I weep why censured by the law
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- The Lost Maidenhead.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Saw not thy seed in sandilands
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the King, 1532.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Was never in Scotland heard or seen
- Page No:
- pp.77-93
- Poem Title:
- The Country Wake, At Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There is a little god called love
- Page No:
- pp.94-101
- Poem Title:
- The Heathen Heroes; or, Vulcan Cuckolded by a Mare.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At Cana once heaven's Lord was pleased
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- On the 28th May, G.I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Datty how goes the honest trade
- Page No:
- pp.102-109
- Poem Title:
- The Presbyterian Pope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The zealot
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who prompts the spouse
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- But. Posth. Works.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I do believe tis in my power
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- The Kirk-Treasurer's Creed.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Papists ye'er fairly foiled think shame and blush
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- The Cameronian Tooth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When popery was pulled down in days of yore
- Page No:
- pp.111-117
- Poem Title:
- Rome's Legacy to the Kirk of Scotland; A Satyr on the Stool of Repentance.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pannels you are indicted as rascals
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Burnbank and Faichney's Indictment/
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Revrend matrons of assize
- Page No:
- p.119-120
- Poem Title:
- Lady Ballop's Speech to the Jury.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ladies having heard complaint
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- Interlocutor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ladies of judiciary court
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- Sentence of the Court.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We the inquest do report
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- Verdict of the Inquest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All ye good people of this city
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- Faichney's Speech on the Ladder.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On ship board went the church at heaven's command
- Page No:
- pp.121-123
- Poem Title:
- The Seaman & Carpenter's honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ark when crammed with unclean beasts was not
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- Burnbacnk's Fairwel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where went the virgin mother of our god
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- The Stablers Honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A new born world the gardener's task began
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- The Gardeners Honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now lend your lugs ye benders fine
- Page No:
- pp.126-132
- Poem Title:
- The Miller Cuckolded.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk
- Page No:
- pp.132-136
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Robert Forbes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here all alone
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- His Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long have we had two kings I do assure you
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- On the Sign of the Three Kings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tom was sae subtile and sae fu' o greed
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- On the Downfall of Thomas Butter's Nose in the Month of June.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wha's dainty bairn are ye my winsome dear
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- A Poem on the Sign of the Mermaid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To the worshipful cordiners of the west port
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- Petition of the Shoe-maker Apprentices.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest and finest of the female kind
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady on her discovering a Spring.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a man a happy man was he
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- On a poor Frenchman who died of joy on hearing he was entitled to a prize of 1000 livres.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are not the ravens fed great god by thee
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- On Providence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stately stept he east the wa
- Page No:
- pp.140-148
- Poem Title:
- Hardyknute, a Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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