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Late CAPTAIN GROSE'S PEREGRINATIONS thro' SCOTLAND, collecting the ANTIQUITIES of that KINGDOM.

HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,

Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groats!

If there's a hole in a' your coats,

I rede you tent it :)

A chield's amang you, taking notes,

And, faith, he'll prent it.

If in your bounds ye chance to light

Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight,

O' ftature fhort, but genius bright,

That's he, mark weel

And vow! he has an unco flight

O' cauk and keel.

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By fome auld, houlet-haunted, higgin*,
Or kirk deferted by its riggin,

It's ten to ane ye'll find him fnug in

Some eldritch part,

Wi' deils, they fay, L- d fafe's! colleaguin
At fome black art.-

Ilk ghaift that haunts auld ha' or chamer,
Ye gipfy-gang that deal in glamor,

And you, deep-read in hell's black grammar,

Warlocks and witches;

Ye'll quake at his conjuring hammer,

Ye midnight bes2

It's tauld he was a fodger bred,
And ane wad rather fa'n than fled;
But now he's quat the fpurtle-blade,

And dog-fkin wallet,

And taen the ntiquarian trade,

I think they call it.

He has a fouth o' auld nick-nackets :
Rufty airn caps and jinglin jackets †,
Wad haud the Lothiars three in tackets,

A towmont gude;

And parritch-pats, and auld faut-backets,

Before the Flood.

* Vide his Antiquities of Scotland.

Vide his treatife on the ancient amour and weapons.

Of Eve's first fire he has a cinder; Auld Tubalcain's fire-fhool and fender; That which diftinguished the gender

O' Balaam's afs;

A broom-ftick o' the witch of Endor,

Weel fhod wi' brass.

Forbye, he'll shape you aff fu' gleg,

The cut of Adam's philibeg;

The knife that nicket Abel's craig

He'll prove you fully,

It was a faulding jocteleg,

Or lang-kail gullie.—

But wad ye fee him in his glee,
For meikle glee and fun has he,
Then set him down, and twa or three

Gude fellows wi' him;'

And, port, Ọ port! fhine thou a wee,

And THEN ye'll see him!

Now, by the powers o' Verfe and Profe!

Thou art a dainty chield, O Grofe !-
Whae'er o' thee fhall ill fuppose,

They fair mifca' thee;

I'd take the rascal by the nose,

Wad fay, Shame fa' thee;

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Written on the blank Leaf of a Book, prefented to

her by the Author.

BEAUTEOUS

AUTEOUS rofe-bud, young and gay,

Blooming on thy early May,

Never may't thou, lovely Flower,

Chilly fhrink in fleety shower!

Never Boreas' hoary path,

Never Eurus' pois'nous breath,

Never baleful stellar lights,

Taint thee with untimely blights!

Never, never reptile thief

Riot on thy virgin leaf!

Nor even Sol too fiercely view

Thy bofom blufhing ftill with dew!

May't thou long, fweet crimfon gem,
Richly deck thy native ftem;

Till fome evening, fober, calm,
Dropping dews, and breathing balı
While all around the woodland rings,
And every bird thy requiem fings;
Thou, amid the dirgeful found,
Shed thy dying honours round,
And refign to parent Earth

The lovelieft form the e'er gave

birth.

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