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; MDCCXCVIII. DEDICATION. TO THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CALEDONIAN HUNT. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, A SCOTTISH Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to fing in his Country's Service, where shall be so properly look for patronage as to the illustrious names of his native Land; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Ge nius |