ers, particularly the Learned and the Polite, who C Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ S. 22 prayer, to the IOI The Twa Dogs, a Tale, page 9 Scotch Drink, The Author's earnest cry and representatives in the House of Commons, 29 The Holy Fair, 40 Address to the Deil, 55 The death and dying words of Poor Maillie, 62 Poor Maillie's Elegy, 66 To J.S****, 69 A Dream, 79 The Vision, 87 Halloween, Theauld Farmer's new-year-morning Salu tation to his auld Mare, Maggy, on giving 118 The Cotter's Saturday night, inscribed to R. A. Esq; 124 To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785, 138 Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet, 141 The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a friend's amour, 150 Despondency, an Ode, 156 Man was made to mourn, a Dirge, 160 A Prayer in the prospect of Death, 168 Toa Mountain-Daisy,on turning one down, with the Plough, in April, 1786, 170 On a Scotch Bard gone to the West Indies, 181 To a Louse,on seeing one on a Lady's bon- Epistle to J. L*****k, an old Scotch Bard, 195 to J. R******, enclosing some Poems, 218 Song, It was upon a Lammas night, Song, Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring Τ Η Ε T W A D O G S, A T A L E. 'T" WAS in that place o' Scotland's isle, COIL, A The first I'll name, they ca'd him Cæfar, Was keepet for His Honor's pleasure; His hair, his size, his mouth, his lugs, Shew'd he was nane o' Scotland's dogs, But whalpet some place far abroad, Where sailors gang to fish for Cod. His locked, letter'd, braw brass-collar Shew'd him the gentleman an’ scholar; But tho' he was o' high degree, The fient a pride na pride had he, But wad hae spent an hour caressan, Ev'n wi’ a Tinkler-gipsey's mesan : At Kirk or Market, Mill or Smiddie, Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er fae duddie, But he wad stan't, as glad to see him, An' ftroan't on ftanes an' hillocks wi' him. The tither was a ploughman's collie, A rhyming, ranting, raving billie, Wha for his friend an' comrade had him, And in his freaks had Luath ca'd him, |