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PREFACE Since this Volume was in type, I have received some additional information which I feel constrained to lay before my readers. With reference to the Easy Club, I have been favoured, through the courtesy of the Rev. Dr. A. B. Grosart, with a sight of the complete Minutes of the Club. From them I observe that Ramsay was one of the earliest members admitted, and that his song ' Were I but a Prince or King was formally presented to the Club after his admission not before, though its rough draft must have been shown to the members prior to that event. Next, as regards the Editions of The Gentle Shepherd^ a valued correspondent, Mr. J. W. Scott, Dowanhill, Glasgow, kindly calls my attention to two ' Translations into English of the Poem which appear to have hitherto escaped notice. These are ^ Allan Ramsays Gentle Shepherd^ translated into English by IV. Ward, Zvo, 1785.' Ward, as Mr. Scott states, seems to have been a ' naturalised Englishman residing at Musselburgh. Five years after Ward's pro- duction, appeared another, and in many respects a better Edition, to wit, ' The Gentle Shepherd, a Scotch Pastoral by Alla?i Ramsay, Attejiipted in E7iglish by Margaret Titmer, London, 1790.' It was dedicated to the Prince of Wales, and its list of Subscribers contains the names of most of the nobility of Scotland. Is this not a reliable gauge of the popularity of the Poem ? Edinburgh, March 1896. '
The Family Tree ..... CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE 9 CHAPTER n Ramsay's Apprenticeship ; a Burgess of the Town — 1701-7 23 CHAPTER HI Scotland in the Eighteenth Century ; the Union ; Ramsay's Marriage— 1707-12 . . .28 CHAPTER IV The Easy Club ; Early Poems ; Edinburgh of Last Century— 1712-16 . . . . .41 CHAPTER V The Favourite of the 'Four 'Oors'; from Wigmaker TO Bookseller; the Quarto of 1721 — 1717-21 . . . . . .56 CHAPTER VI Ramsay as an Editor: The Tea-Table Miscellany AND The Evergreen— IT21-2S . . .68
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ALLAN RAMSAY 57 increased. Of cours
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ALLAN RAMSAY 59 week by week, was o
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ALLAN RAMSAY 6i A reliable gauge of
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ALLAN RAMSAY 63 always ready to rec
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ALLAN RAMSAY 65 in his tentative en
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ALLAN RAMSAY 67 and is obviously an
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ALLAN RAMSAY 69 Not he wha whilome
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ALLAN RAMSAY 71 University of Edinb
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ALLAN RAMSAY 73 originality with re
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ALLAN RAMSAY 75 religious life of t
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ALLAN RAMSAY 77 did to dissipate th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 79 But in 1724 our poe
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ALLAN RAMSAY 8i cated to the Duke o
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ALLAN RAMSAY 83 conclusion of Dunba
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CHAPTER VII 'the gentle shepherd';
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ALLAN RAMSAY 87 since the Idylls of
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ALLAN RAMSAY 89 attempt to deprecia
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ALLAN RAMSAY 91 the beauties withou
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ALLAN RAMSAY 93 Marot, with his Com
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ALLAN RAMSAY 95 (great-grandson of
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CHAPTER VIII RESTING ON HIS LAURELS
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ALLAN RAMSAY 99 The year 1728 had v
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ALLAN RAMSAY loi drawing of The Gen
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ALLAN RAMSAY 103 most notable perso
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ALLAN RAMSAY 105 Storemasters of th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 107 idea of becoming a
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ALLAN RAMSAY 109 which day they sha
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ALLAN RAMSAY in to rub salt into th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 113 informed Mr. Rober
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ALLAN RAMSAY 115 should break doon
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ALLAN RAMSAY 117 own, but whose lib
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ALLAN RAMSAY 119 from scurvy in the
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ALLAN RAMSAY 121 represents him in
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ALLAN RAMSAY 123 Wood or of Patie B
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ALLAN RAMSAY 125 poems, however, oc
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ALLAN RAMSAY 127 distinctively nati
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ALLAN RAMSAY 129 The extravagances
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ALLAN RAMSAY 131 The girls then ent
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ALLAN RAMSAY 133 Blyther than Iambs
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ALLAN RAMSAY 135 Patie and Peggy ta
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ALLAN RAMSAY 137 aunt, in the fore
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ALLAN RAMSAY 139 general happiness,
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ALLAN RAMSAY 141 centor in Roman Ca
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ALLAN RAMSAY 143 also the one on th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 145 faults and foibles
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ALLAN RAMSAY 147 of his age. Like R
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ALLAN RAMSAY 149 To a soup^on of di
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— ALLAN RAMSAY 151 Or if you affe
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ALLAN RAMSAY 153 noble panegyric on
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ALLAN RAMSAY 155 But here no beds a
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ALLAN RAMSAY 157 and he asks his co
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ALLAN RAMSAY 159 Not costly things,
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