A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [reissue of ESTC N19399] [ESTC T117061]

DMI number:

991

Publication Date:

1787

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T117061

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111162849

Shelfmark:

BL 1078.g.19

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASSIONS, | BY THE LATE | Mr ALEXANDER PENNECUIK, Gent. | And OTHERS. | [epigraph] | [i] GLASGOW: [/i] | Printed for ALEX. BUCHANAN, Book- | seller, above the Cross. | M DCC LXXXVII.

Epigraph:

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

Place of Publication:

Glasgow

Genres:

Collection of Scottish verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Related Miscellanies

Title:

A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [different setting than ESTC N19399] [ESTC T151030] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1756

ESTC No:

T151030

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

A Collection of Scots poems on several occasions [N19399] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1756

ESTC No:

N19399

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

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Related People

Printer:

Alexander Buchanan

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

On a winters night my gran'am spinning

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pp.3-9

Poem Title:

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

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That day when Meg fair taste got

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pp.10-17

Poem Title:

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

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Dole dole dear cummers dismal news

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The Wife's Tears

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First Line:

The judges me condemned have

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p.17

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Meg Dickson's Loup from the Ladder

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First Line:

A gauger never can be called a fool

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p.19

Poem Title:

The Character of a Gauger

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A whipman is the greatest prince in nature

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

The Character of a Whipmam

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First Line:

Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun

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p.20

Poem Title:

Inscription in the Carters Hall in Leith

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First Line:

Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

The Character of a Vintner

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A zealous brother of the canting crew

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pp.22-23

Poem Title:

The Zealous Constable

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First Line:

A story reached my ears some days ago

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p.23

Poem Title:

A Tale of a Beau and Barber

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First Line:

There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

The Self-Tormentor

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First Line:

All you that in your beds do lie

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p.24

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, through all the streets of Edinburgh, at four o'clock in the morning, May 10. 1720.

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First Line:

Why should I weep when censured by the law

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

The Lost Maidenhead

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First Line:

At Cana once heaven's Lord was pleased

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p.25

Poem Title:

On the 28th May, G. I.

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Since Will and Meg are married

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p.25

Poem Title:

Will. and Meg.

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Datty how goes the honest trade

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pp.26-33

Poem Title:

The Presbyterian Pope

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I do believe tis in my power

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p.33

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.33-34

Poem Title:

The Cameronian Tooth

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First Line:

When popery was pulled down in days of yore

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pp.34-40

Poem Title:

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

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Where went the virgin mother of our god

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

The Stablers Honours

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A new born world the gardener's task began

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

The Gardeners Honours

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Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk

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pp.42-46

Poem Title:

Elegy on Robert Forbes

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First Line:

Here all alone

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p.46

Poem Title:

His Epitaph

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First Line:

Long have we had two kings I do assure you

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pp.46-47

Poem Title:

On the Sign of the Three Kings

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First Line:

Tom was sae subtile and sae fu' o greed

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p.46

Poem Title:

On the Downfal 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.47-48

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.48-49

Poem Title:

Petition of the Shoemaker Apprentices

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First Line:

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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First Line:

O cano'gate poor elritch hole

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pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May 1717.

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First Line:

Auld reeky mourn in sable hue

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pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Elegy on Maggy Johnston who died anno 1711.

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First Line:

Beneath this sod

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p.53

Poem Title:

Epitaph

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First Line:

O rare Maggy Johnston

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p.55

Poem Title:

Epitaph

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First Line:

I warn you a' to greet and drone

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pp.56-57

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.57-58

Poem Title:

Postscript

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In soonet flee the man I sing

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pp.58-61

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

Here lies a reverend Givan priest

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p.61

Poem Title:

On John Pettigrew Minister at Givan

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First Line:

Here lies interred beside a witch

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Lady Shaw's Epitaph

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First Line:

Upon the earth thrives villainy and woe

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p.61

Poem Title:

Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton

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Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

On George Faichney

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First Line:

Here lies More and no more than he

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p.62

Poem Title:

On Mr William More

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First Line:

I John Bell smith lies under this stain

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p.62

Poem Title:

On John Bell

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First Line:

My sledge and hammer both declined

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p.62

Poem Title:

On a Blacksmith

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First Line:

Reader bid every taylor leave his house

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p.62

Poem Title:

On George Button Taylor

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First Line:

Through Christ I'm not inferior

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p.62

Poem Title:

On Thomas Rymour Maltman in Coupar

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First Line:

Beneath this stone here lies a man

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p.63

Poem Title:

On a Dwarf at Kilsyth

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First Line:

Here lies a lady who if not belied

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p.63

Poem Title:

On a Lady

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First Line:

Here lies Boatman West

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p.63

Poem Title:

On West the Boatman

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First Line:

Here lies entombed a married man's great woe

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

On a Scold

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First Line:

Let earth take earth the devil his sins again

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p.63

Poem Title:

On Janet Beatie at Montrose

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First Line:

He of drumcarro tenant was

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p.64

Poem Title:

On John Simpson in St Andrews

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First Line:

Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen

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p.64

Poem Title:

On an Old Woman

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First Line:

Here lies interred our good old auntie

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p.64

Poem Title:

On one Unknown

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First Line:

Here lies John Smith

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p.64

Poem Title:

On John Smith

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First Line:

Prison is a house of care

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p.64

Poem Title:

The Character of a Prison

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