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CONTENTS.
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To John Taylor
167
To ———
167
There's Naethin' like the Honest Nappy
167
Fragment
167
Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb
167
'In Vain Would Prudence'
168
'Though Fickle Fortune'
168
The Loyal Natives' Verses
168
Burns—Extempore
168
'I Burn, I Burn'
169
Tam the Chapman
169
To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's Recovery
169
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods, on his benefit night
170
Nature's Law. A Poem humbly inscribed to G. H. Esq.
171
The Cats Like Kitchen
171
Poverty
171
Tragic Fragment
172
Extempore. Pinned to a Lady's Coach
172
Lines on being asked why God had made Miss Davies so little and Mrs. — so large
172
Fragments
173
Verses written on a Window of the Inn at Carron
174
Epigram. Written at Inverary
174
Verses addressed to J. Rankine
174
Lines said to have been written by Burns, while on his Death-bed, to John Rankine
175
Lines written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket Book
175
The Henpeck'd Husband
175
Extempore Lines, in answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns
175
Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent the Author by a Tailor
176
A Toast. Given at a meeting of the Dumfriesshire Volunteers
177
On seeing the beautiful seat of Lord Galloway
177
On the Same
177
On the Same
177
To the Same, on the Author being threatened with his Resentment
177
Epitaph on a Henpeck'd Country Squire
178
Epigram on said occasion
178
Another
178
On hearing that there was Falsehood in the Rev. Dr. B———'s very Looks
178
Extemporaneous Effusion, on being appointed to the Excise
178
Lines written on a Window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries
179
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire
179
Lines written and presented to Mrs. Kemble
179
Epitaph on William Nicol
179
Verses to J. Rankine
180
Extempore in the Court of Session
180
Epitaph on John Dove
180
Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
180
Lines written on the Window of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
181
Epigram on Captain Francis Grose
181
Lines written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns
181
On Miss J. Scott of Ayr
181
Epitaph on John Bushby
181
Epigram on Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams
182
Epitaph on a Country Laird
182
Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
182
Epitaph on Wee Johnny
182
Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder
182
Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
183
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
183
Epitaph on my Father
183
Epitaph on a Person nicknamed "The Marquis"
183
On Himself
183
Epitaph on Walter S———
184
Grace before Meat
184
On Commissary Goldie's Brains
184
Impromptu
184
Impromptu
184
Epigram
184
A Bard's Epitaph
185
Addressed to a Lady whom the Author feared he had offended
185
Lines inscribed on a platter
185
To a Painter
185
On Mr. M'Murdo
186
To ———
186
To a Lady who was looking up the Text during Sermon
186
To ———
186
Lines written on a Tumbler
187
On Mr. W. Cruikshank, of the High School, Edinburgh
187

SONGS.

The Lass o' Ballochmyle
188
Naebody
188
Song of Death
189
Auld Rob Morris
189
My ain kind Dearie O
190
My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
190
Duncan Gray
190
O Poortith
191
Lord Gregory
191
Galla Water
192
There was a Lass
192
Logan Braes
193
Phillis the Fair
193
Open the Door to me, Oh!
194
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