A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [different setting than ESTC N19399] [ESTC T151030] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 982
- Publication Date:
- 1756
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T151030
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB126123785
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO BOD
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | By the late | Mr. ALEXANDER PENNECUIK, Gent. | and OTHERS. | [epigraph] | EDINBURGH, | Printed for JAMES REID Bookseller in LEITH. | M DCC LVI.
- 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 and Collection includes verse in other languages
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: Latin verse pp.150-156.
- Other matter:
- End matter: List of books, plays, poems sold by James Reid pp.157-158.
- Title:
- A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [reissue of ESTC N19399] [ESTC T117061]
- Publication Date:
- 1787
- ESTC No:
- T117061
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Author:
- James Reid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The powers above on fair Britannia smile
- Page No:
- pp.3-9
- Poem Title:
- Scots Poems, &c. The Edinburgh Cuckolds.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On a winters night my gran'am spinning
- Page No:
- pp.9-16
- 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.16-20
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Maid of Dumblane.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A furlong or so from bonny Dumblain
- Page No:
- pp.20-23
- 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.23-26
- 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.26-27
- Poem Title:
- Beggars Song, out of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
- Attribution:
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Attributed To:
- Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher
- First Line:
- Bless your worships throw us a penny
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- The Begging Cant
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here in peace and love we dwell
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- The Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beauty is justly termed a divine ray
- Page No:
- pp.28-30
- 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.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on George Paterson, who hewed out the subterranean Caves at Gilmerton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stop passenger until my life you read
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Marjory Scot of Dunkeld.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Upon the earth thrives villainy and woe
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Inscription on the Cave at Gilmerton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a reverend Givan priest
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- On John Pattigrew Minister at Givan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies interred beside a witch
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Lady Shaw's Epitaph. In Greenock Church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lyes Mess Andrew Gray
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- In Glasgow church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I John Bell smith lies under this stain
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- On John Bell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies More and no more than he
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Mr William More.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sledge and hammer both declined
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On a Black-Smith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader bid every taylor leave his house
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On George Button Taylor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through Christ I'm not inferior
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Thomas Rymour Maltman in Coupar.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On George Faichney.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Edinburgh may say oh hon
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- On William Lithgow Writer in Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a lady who if not belied
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kind France gave me my birth and tender life
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- On Nicol Vilant at Torphichen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here old Sarum lies
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- On Bishop Burnet.
- Attribution:
- Tho.Brown.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone here lies a man
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On a Dwarf at Kilsyth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies Boatman West
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On West the Boatman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies entombed a married man's great woe
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- On a Scold.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let earth take earth the devil his sins again
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On Janet Beatie at Montrose.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He of drumcarro tenant was
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- On John Simpson in St. Andrews
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies interred our good old auntie
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- On One Unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Smith
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- On John Smith
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies old John Hildibroad
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- On a Tomb-stone in Dundee
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- On an Old Woman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Davidson
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- John Davidson in Aberdeen
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Spier
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- On John Spier
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the corpse of Laird M'Near
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- On Laird M'Near
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prison is a house of care
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Prison
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That day when Meg fair taste got
- Page No:
- pp.42-51
- 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.51-52
- 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:
- p,52
- 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.53
- 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.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Indictment
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Muir-cock for this high aggravated crime
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- The Sentence
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Three times the carlin grained and rifted
- Page No:
- pp.54-57
- Poem Title:
- Lukcy Spence's Last Advice
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dole dole dear cummers dismal news
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- The Wife's Tears
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A gauger never can be called a fool
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Gauger
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O cano'gate poor elritch hole
- Page No:
- pp.59-61
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Lucky Wood in the Canongate, May, 1717.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this sod
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race
- Page No:
- pp.61-63
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Vintner
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Auld reeky mourn in sable hue
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Maggy Johnston, who died anno 1711.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A whipman is the greatest prince in nature
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Whipman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O rare Maggy Johnston
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Inscription in the Carters Hall in Leith
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I warn you a' to greet and drone
- Page No:
- pp.66-68
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on John Couper, Kirk-treasurer's Man, Anno 1714.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A zealous brother of the canting crew
- Page No:
- pp.68-70
- Poem Title:
- The Zealous Constable
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of unquhile John to lie or ban
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Postscript
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In sonnet slee the man I sing
- Page No:
- pp.70-73
- 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.73-75
- 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.75
- Poem Title:
- Sir John Barleycorn's Epitaph
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kilbarchan now may say alas
- Page No:
- pp.76-78
- Poem Title:
- The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan; or, The epitaph of Habbie Simson, Who on his drone bore bonny flags; He made his cheeks as red as crimson, And babbled when he blew the bags
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A story reached my ears some days ago
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- A Tale of a Beau and a Barber
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These fifty years I have been gathering gods
- Page No:
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- On a Miser
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- The Self-Tormentor
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Few of the grave and wise delight to go
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- The Edinburgh Maid
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All you that in your beds do lie
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- The Pretend 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'clok in the morning, May 10. 1720.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should I weep when censured by the law
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- The Lost Maidenhead
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Saw not thy seed in sandilands
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the King, 1532.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since Will and Meg are married
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Will. and Meg
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
- Page No:
- pp.82-98
- 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.98-105
- Poem Title:
- The Heathen Heroes; or, Vulcan Cuckolded by Mars.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At Cana once heaven's Lord was pleased
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- On the 28th May, G. I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Datty how goes the honest trade
- Page No:
- pp.106-113
- Poem Title:
- The Presbyterian Pope
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I do believe tis in my power
- Page No:
- p.113
- 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.113-114
- Poem Title:
- The Cameronian Tooth
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When popery was pulled down in days of yore
- Page No:
- pp.114-120
- 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.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Burbank and Faichney's Indictment
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Revrend matrons of assize
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Lady Ballop's Speech to the Jury.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ladies having heard complaint
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- The Interlocutor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ladies of judiciary court
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- Sentence of the Court
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We in the inquest do report
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- Verdict of the Inquest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All ye good people of this city
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- Faichney's Speech on the Ladder.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ark when crammed with unclean beasts was not
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- Burbank's Farewell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On ship board went the church at heaven's command
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- The Seaman and Carpenter's Honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where went the virgin mother of our god
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- The Stablers Honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A new born world the gardener's task began
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- The Gardiners Honours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now lend your lugs ye benders fine
- Page No:
- pp.128-135
- Poem Title:
- The Miller Cuckolded.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk
- Page No:
- pp.135-138
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on Robert Forbes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here all alone
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- His Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tom was sae subtile and sae fu' o greed
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- On the Downfall of Thomas Butter's Nose in the Month of June.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long have we have two kings I do assure ye
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- On the Sign of the Three Kings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wha's dainty bairn are ye my winsome dear
- Page No:
- pp.139-141
- Poem Title:
- A Poem on the Sign of the Mermaid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a man a happy man was he
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- On a poor Frenchman who dyed of joy on hearing he was entitled to a prize of 1000 Livres.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To the worshipful cordiners of the west port
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- Petition of the Shoe-Makers Apprentice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are not the ravens fed great god by thee
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- On Providence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest and finest of the female kind
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady on her Discovering a Spring.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stately stept he east the wa
- Page No:
- pp.142-150
- Poem Title:
- Hardyknute, a Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta fisea
- Page No:
- pp.150-155
- Poem Title:
- Polemo Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Grahamius notabilis coegerat montanos
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- Praelium Gillicrankianum Cantilena.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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