CHIEFLY IN THE

SCOTTISH DIALECT.

BY

ROBERT BURNS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

A NEW EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL jun. AND W. DAVIES, LONDON;

AND WILLIAM CREECH, EDINBURGH.

MDCCXCVIII,

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

A SCOTTISH Bard, proud of the name, and whofe highest ambition is to fing in his Country's Jervice, where shall be so properly look for patronage as to the illuftrious names of his native Land; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Anceflors? The Poetic Ge