ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF WHAT dost thou in that mansion fair? Flit, Galloway, and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, ON THE SAME. No Stewart art thou, Galloway, ON THE SAME. BRIGHT ran thy line, O Galloway, John Stewart, Eighth Earl of Galloway, K. T. who succeeded to the title in 1773, and died in 1796. These four Epigrams were printed in Cromek's Reliques. TO THE SAME, ON THE AUTHOR BEING THREATENED WITH HIS RESENTMENT. SPARE me thy vengeance, Galloway, I ask no kindness at thy hand, VERSES TO J. RANKINE. AE day, as Death, that grusome carl, 66 By God I'll not be seen behint them, Nor 'mang the sp'ritual core present them, Printed in the Glasgow Collection in 1801. VOL. III. Without, at least, ae honest man, EXTEMPORANEOUS EFFUSION, ON BEING APPOINTED TO THE EXCISE.* SEARCHING auld wives' barrels, Och, hon! the day! That clarty barm should stain my laurels ; These movin' things, ca'd wives and weans, ON HEARING THAT THERE WAS FALSEHOOD IN THE REV. DR. B-'S VERY LOOKS.* THAT there is falsehood in his looks They say their master is a knave— * Printed in Cromek's Reliques. POVERTY. In politics if thou would'st mix, ON A SCHOOLMASTER IN CLEISH PARISH, FIFESHIRE.+ HERE lie Willie Michie's banes; LINES WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO MRS. KEMBLE, ON SEEING HER IN THE CHARACTER OF YARICO. Dumfries Theatre, 1794. KEMBLE, thou cur'st my unbelief + Printed in Cromek's Reliques. + Printed in the Glasgow Collection in 1801. I MURDER hate by field or flood, The deities that I adore Are social Peace and Plenty, LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW, AT THE KING'S ARMS' TAVERN, DUMFRIES. Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering 'Gainst poor Excisemen? give the cause a hearing; What are your landlords' rent-rolls? taxing ledgers: What premiers, what? even Monarchs' mighty gaugers: Nay, what are priests, those seeming godly wise men ? What are they, pray, but spiritual Excisemen ? |