THE

WORKS

UNIV. OF

OF

ROBERT BURNS.

EDITED BY

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD,

AND

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, ESQ.

VOL. II.

GLASGOW:

ARCHIBALD FULLARTON, AND CO.

34, HUTCHESON STREET;

AND 31, SOUTH BRIDGE, Edinburgh.

1834.

GLASGOW:

FULLARTON AND CO., PRINTERS, VILLAFIELD.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND.

The pieces marked thus † are not contained in Dr Currie's edi-
tion; and a considerable proportion of them have not appeared in
any of the old editions of Burns' Works-while others have appeared
only in un imperfect form.

EPISTLE to Hugh Parker

The Guidwife of Wauchope-house to Robert Burns

To the Guidwife of Wauchope House

Lament, written at a time when the Poet was about to leave

On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair

Prologue, spoken by Mr Woods on his benefit night

The Poet's welcome to his Illegitimate Child

Elegy on the late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo

Letter to James Tait, Glenconnar

Fragment, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox

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Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Ellisland, on New-year's day

Lines written to a Gentleman who had sent him a News-

To the Right Honourable, the Earl of Braidalbyne

paper, and offered to continue it free of expense

Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer

Epistle to R. Graham, Esq.

The Rights of Woman

On the Death of the late Lord President

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Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle

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Poem on Pastoral Poetry

Lines written on the blank leaf of a copy of his Poems

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To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with a present of Books

Jessy Lewars

†The Toast

† On Miss Jessy Lewars' Sickness

On the recovery of Jessy Lewars

Inscription for an Altar to Independence

The Henpecked Husband

Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended

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Verses to Miss Graham of Fintry, with a present of Songs

Verses written on the blank leaf of a copy of his Poems

Verses to the Landlady of the Inn at Roslin

+ Lines written on a Pew, in the Kirk of Lamington

+ Lines written on a Bank Note

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