1724 1727.

THE

DEDICATION

PREFIXED TO

THE TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY;

A COLLECTION OF SONGS,

FROM WHICH

THE FOLLOWING, COMPOSED BY ALLAN RAMSAY,

ARE EXTRACTED.

Behold, and liften, while the Fair
Breaks in sweet founds the willing air,
And with her own breath fans the fire

Which her bright eyes do first inspire:
What reafon can that love controul,
Which more than one way courts the foul?

E. W.

ΤΟ

Ilka lovely British lass,

Frae ladies Charlotte, Anne, and Jean,
Down to ilk bonny finging Befs
Wha dances barefoot on the green.

DEAR LASSES,

YOUR most humble flave,

Wha ne'er to serve you shall decline, Kneeling wad your acceptance crave, When he presents this fma' propine:

Then take it kindly to your care,

Revive it with your tunefu' notes;
Its beauties will look fweet and fair,
Arifing faftly thro' your throats.

The wanton wee thing will rejoice,
When tented by a sparkling eye,
The spinnet tinkling with her voice,
It lying on her lovely knee.

While kettles dringe on ingles dour,

Or clashes stay the lazy lass,

Their fangs may ward ye frae the four,

And gayly vacant minutes pafs.

E'en

E'en while the tea 's fill'd reeking round,

Rather than plot a tender tongue,
Treat a' the circling lugs wi' found,
Syne fafely fip when ye have fung.

May happiness had up your hearts,

And warm ye lang with loving fires!
May powers propitious play their parts,
In matching you to your defires!

DINBURGH, January 1, 1724.

A. RAMSAY.

1721.

WINE AND MUSIC.

SYMON.

COLIN! how dull is 't to be,
When a foul is finking wi' pain,
To one who is pained like me;
My life's grown a load,

And my faculties nod,

While I figh for cold Jeanie in vain,

By beauty and scorn I am flain,

The wound it is mortal and deep,

My pulfes beat low in each vein,
And threaten eternal fleep.

COLIN.

Come, here are the best cures for thy wounds; O boy, the cordial bowl!

With foft harmonious founds; Wounds! thefe can cure all wounds, With foft harmonious founds,

And pull of the cordial bowl.

O Symon! fink thy care, and tune up thy droop.

ing foul.