A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [ESTC T167191]

DMI number:

987

Publication Date:

1769

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T167191

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB131286813

Shelfmark:

NLS L.C.76

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASSIONS | By the late | Mr ALEXANDER PENNECUIK, Gent. | and OTHERS. | [epigraph] | EDINBURGH: | Printed for A. ANGUS and SON, Booksellers in | Aberdeen. MDCCLXIX.

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

Pagination:

[1]-154 pp. (p.40 mislabelled as 30)

Comments:

CONTENTS: Verse in Latin pp.148.2-158

Related People

Printer:

A. Angus

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The powers above on fair Britannia smile

Page No:

pp.1-7

Poem Title:

The Edinburgh Cuckolds

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First Line:

On a winters night my gran'am spinning

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pp.7.2-14

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

The authors of romances and novels

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pp.14-17

Poem Title:

The Fair Maid of Dumblane

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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, & Blubberlips, Queen of the Gypsies.

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First Line:

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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Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Bless your worships throw us a penny

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p.24

Poem Title:

The Begging Cant.

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First Line:

Here in peace and love we dwell

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

The Song

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First Line:

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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First Line:

He did not live upon the earth

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Epitaph on George Paterson, who hewed out the subterranean caves at Gilmerton.

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First Line:

Stop passenger until my life you read

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Epitaph of Marjory Scot of Dunkeld

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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 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

First Line:

Beneath this stone here lies a man

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p.35

Poem Title:

On a Dwarf at Kilsyth

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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 an old woman wrapped in her linen

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

On an old Woman

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First Line:

Here lies John Davidson

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p.36

Poem Title:

On John Davidson in Aberdeen

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First Line:

Here lies John Spier

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p.36

Poem Title:

On John Spier

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First Line:

Here lies the corpse of Laird M'Near

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p.36

Poem Title:

On Laird M'Near

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

Three times the carlin grained and rifted

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pp.49-52

Poem Title:

Lucky Spence's Last Advice

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First Line:

Dole dole dear cummers dismal news

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

The Wife's Tears

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

Beneath this sod

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p.56

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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First Line:

Ye sons of Sodom perverse hellish race

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

The Character of a Vintner

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First Line:

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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First Line:

O rare Maggy Johnston

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p.59

Poem Title:

Epitaph

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First Line:

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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First Line:

Great god whose potent arm does drive the sun

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p.60

Poem Title:

Inscription 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-treasurers 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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First Line:

In sonnet slee the man I sing

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pp.64-68

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

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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First Line:

An old bold warrior lies within this clay

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p.70

Poem Title:

Sir John Barleycorn's Epitaph

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First Line:

Kilbarchan now may say alas

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pp.70-73

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 bobbed when he blew his bags

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First Line:

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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First Line:

These fifty years I have been gathering gods

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p.73

Poem Title:

On a Miser

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First Line:

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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First Line:

There is a wretch the greatest wretch alive

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p.74

Poem Title:

The Self-Tormentor

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First Line:

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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First Line:

Since Will and Meg are married

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pp.76-77

Poem Title:

Will. and Meg.

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First Line:

Why should I weep when censured by the law

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p.76

Poem Title:

The Lost Maidenhead

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First Line:

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 nor 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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First Line:

There is a little god called love

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pp.94-101

Poem Title:

The Heathen Heroes; or, Vulcan Cuckolded by Mars.

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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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First Line:

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

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Who prompts the spouse

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p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

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But. Post. Works.

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First Line:

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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pp.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 in 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 and Carpenters Honours

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The ark when crammed with unclean beasts was not

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p.121

Poem Title:

Burnbank's Farewel

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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.124-126

Poem Title:

[no title]

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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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First Line:

Greet a ye bairns and bearded folk

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pp.132-136

Poem Title:

Elegy on Robert Forbes

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First Line:

Here all alone

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p.136

Poem Title:

His Epitaph

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Long have we have two kings I do assure ye

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pp.136.4-137

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.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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Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta fisea

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pp.148-153

Poem Title:

Polemo Middinia Inter Vitarvam et Nebernam

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Grahamius notabilis coegerat montanos

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p.153-158

Poem Title:

Praelium Gillicrankianum Cantilena

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