_O'ercome_, surplus.
_O'erput_,--_ne'er o'erput it_, never get over it.
_Onstead_, the building on a farm, the farm-house.
_Ony_, any.
_Or_, sometimes used for ere, or before. _Or_ day, i. e., before
daybreak.
_Orp_, to weep with a convulsive pant.
_Owk_, week.
_Owrlay_, a cravat.
_Owsen_, oxen.
_Oxter_, the armpit.
P.
_Pat_, did put.
_Paughty_, proud, haughty.
_Pawky_, witty or sly in word or action, without any harm or bad
designs.
_Peets_, turf for fire.
_Pensy_, finical, foppish, conceited.
_Pit_, to put.
_Pith_, strength, might, force.
_Plaiding_, a coarse tweeled woollen cloth.
_Plet_, plaited.
_Plotcock_, the devil.
_Poinds your gear_, distrains your effects.
_Poke_, bag.
_Pople_, or _paple_, the bubbling, purling, or boiling up of water.
_Poortith_, poverty.
_Pou_, pull.
_Poutch_, a pocket.
_Pow_, the poll, the head.
_Prin_, a pin.
_Propine_, gift or present.
_Pu_, pull.
_Pund_, pound.
_Putt a stane_, throw a big stone.
Q.
_Quean_, a young woman.
_Quey_, a young cow.
R.
_Racket rent_, rack-rent.
_Rae_, a roe.
_Rair_, or _rare_, roar.
_Rashes_, rushes.
_Redd_, to rid, unravel; to separate folks that are fighting. It also
signifies clearing of any passage. "I am _redd_," I am apprehensive.
_Red up_, to put in order.
_Reek_, smoke.
_Reest_, to rust, or dry in the smoke.
_Rever_, a robber or pirate.
_Rife_, or _ryfe_, plenty.
_Rigs_ of corn, ridges.
_Rin_, run.
_Rock_, a distaff.
_Roose_, or _ruse_, to commend, extol.
_Roove_, to rivet.
_Roudes_, a wrinkled, ill-natured woman.
_Rousted_, rusted.
_Row_, roll.
_Rowan_, rolling.
_Rowt_, to roar, especially the lowing of bulls and cows.
_Rowth_, plenty.
_Ruck_, a rick or stack of hay or corn.
_Rumple_, the Rump parliament.
S.
_Sae_, so.
_Saebiens_, seeing it is, since.
_Saft_, soft.
_Sair_, or _sare_, sore.
_Sakeless_, or _saikless_, guiltless, innocent, free.
_Sald_, sold.
_Sall_, shall; like _soud_ for should.
_Samen_, same.
_Sang_, song.
_Sark_, a shirt.
_Saugh_, a willow or sallow tree.
_Saul_, soul.
_Saw_, an old saying, or proverbial expression.
_Sawn_, sown.
_Sax_, six.
_Scad_, or _scawd_, scald.
_Scart_, to scratch.
_Scrimp_, narrow, straitened, little.
_Sell_, self.
_Sey_, to try.
_Shaw_, a wood or forest.
_To Shaw_, to show.
_Shellycoat_, a goblin, a spirit who resides in the waters.
_Sheveling-gabit_, having a distorted mouth.
_Shoon_, shoes.
_Shore_, to threaten.
_Sic_, such.
_Siccan_, such kind of.
_Siller_, silver.
_Simmer_, summer.
_Sindle_, or _sinle_, seldom.
_Singand_, singing.
_Sinsyne_, since that time; lang _sinsyne_, long ago.
_Skair_, share.
_Skaith_, hurt, damage, loss.
_Skelf_, shelf.
_Skelp_, to run; to flog the buttocks.
_Skiff_, to move smoothly along.
_Slaw_, slow.
_Sled_, sledge, sleigh.
_Slee_, sly.
_Slid_, smooth, cunning, slippery; as, "he's a _slid_ loun."
_Sma_, small.
_Smoor_, to smother.
_Snaw_, snow.
_Snood_, the band for tying up a woman's hair.
_Snool_, to dispirit by chiding, hard labour, and the like; also, a
pitiful grovelling slave.
_Sonsy_, happy, fortunate, lucky; sometimes used for large and lusty;
plump, thriving.
_Sorn_, to spunge, or hang on others for maintenance.
_Sough_, the sound of wind among trees, or of one sleeping.
_Spae_, to foretell or divine. _Spaemen_ prophets, augurs.
_Spain_, to wean from the breast.
_Spait_, or _spate_, a torrent, flood, or inundation.
_Speer_, to ask, inquire.
_Spill_, to spoil, abuse.
_Spraings_, stripes of different colours.
_Spring_, a tune on a musical instrument.
_Sta_, stall.
_Stane_, stone; a weight of 16 lbs.
_Stang_, did sting, to sting.
_Stap_, stop.
_Starns_, the stars.
_Staw_, stole.
_Steek_, to shut, close.
_Stegh_, to cram.
_Stend_, or _sten_, to move with a hasty long pace; to spring.
_Stent_, to stretch or extend; to limit or stint.
_Stock-and-horn_, a shepherd's pipe, made by inserting a reed pierced
like a flute into a cow's horn; the mouth-piece is like that of a
hautboy.
_Stown_, stolen.
_Strae_, straw.
_Strak_, struck.
_Strapan_, clever, tall, handsome.
_Sung_, singed.
_Swat_, did sweat.
_Swith_, quickly.
_Syne_, afterwards, then; since.
T.
_Taid_, a toad.
_Tald_, told.
_Tane_, taken.
_Tarrow_, to refuse what we love, from a cross humour.
_Tass_, a little dram-cup.
_Tate_, a small lock of hair, or any little quantity of wool, cotton,
&c.
_Taz_, a whip or scourge.
_Tent_, to attend, to take care of; to observe, to remark.
_Thack_, thatch.
_Thae_, those.
_Than_, then.
_Thievless_, wanting propriety, unmeaning.
_Thirle_, to thrill.
_Thole_, to endure, suffer.
_Thow_, thaw.
_Thrang_, throng.
_Thrawart_, froward, cross, crabbed.
_Thrawin_, stern and cross-grained.
_Thrawn-gabet_, wry-mouthed.
_Tift_, good order. _In tift_, in the mood.
_Till_, to. _Till't_, to it.
_Timmer_,--_turn the timmer_, put round the cup.
_Tine_, or _tyne_, to lose. _Tint_, lost.
_Titty_, sister.
_Tocher_, portion, dowry.
_Tocher_,--_but tocher-good_, without dowry.
_Tod_, a fox.
_Tod Lawrie_, a fox.
_Tooly_, to fight; to scramble; to romp.
_Toom_, empty, applied to a barrel, purse, house, &c.; also, to empty.
_Tot_, a fondling name given to a child.
_Touse_, _tousle_, or _towzle_, to rumple, to handle roughly.
_Towin'd_, tamed.
_Towmond_, a year or twelvemonth.
_Towzle_, to handle roughly.
_Trig_, neat, handsome.
_Triste_, or _tryst_, appointment.
_Tron_, an instrument erected in every burgh in Scotland, for the
weighing of wool and other heavy wares.
_Trow_, to believe.
_Tulzie_, a quarrel or broil.
_Twa three_, two or three.
_Twitch_, touch.
_Tyke_, a dog of one of the larger and common breeds.
U.
_Uneith_, not easy.
_Unfother'd_, not foddered.
_Unko_, or _unco_, unknown, strange; very.
_Unsonsy_, unlucky, ugly.
V.
_Virle_, a ferrule.
_Vissy_, to view with care.
W.
_Wa_, or _waw_, wall.
_Wad_, would.
_Wadna_, would not.
_Wae_, sorrowful; woe.
_Waefu'_, woeful.
_Waff_, wandering by itself; worthless.
_Wale_, to pick and choose; the best.
_Wame_, womb, the belly.
_Wan_, won.
_War_, or _warse_, worse.
_Ware_, wares, merchandise; to expend.
_Wark_, work.
_Warld_, world.
_Warlock_, wizard.
_Warst_, worst.
_Wat_, or _wit_, to know.
_Wather_, a male sheep that has been gelded while a lamb.
_Watna-whats_, know-not-whats.
_Wauk_, or _wawk_, to walk; to watch.
_Wawking_, watching.
_We'an_, or _wee ane_, a child.
_Wear up_, to drive off.
_Wee_, little.
_Ween_, thought, imagined, supposed.
_Weer_, to stop or oppose.
_Westlin_, westerly, westward.
_West-Port_, the sheep market-place of Edinburgh.
_Wha_, who.
_Whase_, whose.
_Whilk_, which.
_Whindging_, whining, whimpering.
_Whins_, furze.
_Whisht_, hush, hold your peace.
_Whop_, whip.
_Will-fire_, wild fire.
_Wimpling_, a turning backward and forward, winding like the meanders
of a river.
_Win_, or _won_, to reside, dwell.
_Winna_, will not.
_Winsom_, gaining, desirable, agreeable, complete, large, handsome,
charming.
_Withershins_, motion against the sun.
_Wobster_,--_the deel gaes o'er John Wobster_, the devil's to pay.
_To Won_, to dry by exposing to the sun and air.
_Wond_, wound, wrapped around.
_Woo_, or _w_, wool.
_Wood_, mad.
_Woody_, the gallows: for, a withy was formerly used as a rope for
hanging criminals.
_Wordy_, worthy.
_Wow_, wonderful, strange.
_Wrang_, wrong.
_Wreaths_ of snow, when heaps of it are blown together by the wind.
_Wyle_, or _wile_, to entice.
_Wyte_, or _wite_, to blame, blame.
Y.
_Yestreen_, yesternight.
_Yont_, beyond.
_Youdith_, youthfulness.
_Youl_, to yell.
_Yule_, Christmas.
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A
CATALOGUE
OF THE
SCOTTISH POETS,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD.
_Sages and chiefs long since had birth,
Ere Cæsar was, or Newton nam'd;
These rais'd new empires o'er the earth,--
And those, new heav'ns and systems fram'd;
Vain was the chiefs', the sages' pride!
They had no poet, and they died.
In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled!
They had no poet, and are dead._
A. POPE.
Book Catalogues are to men of letters what the compass and the
lighthouse are to the mariner, the railroad to the merchant, the
telegraph wires to the editor, the digested index to the lawyer, the
pharmacop[oe]ia and the dispensatory to the physician, the sign-post
to the traveller, the screw, the wedge, and the lever to the mechanic;
in short, they are the labour-saving machines, the concordances, of
literature WESTERN MEMORABILIA.
[Illustration]
NEW YORK:
WILLIAM GOWANS.
1852.
CATALOGUE
OF THE
SCOTTISH POETS,
AND OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THEIR WORKS.
* * * * *
ADAMSON, H. The Muse's Threnodie, or, Mirthful Mournings; and a
Poetical Description of Perth. Map. 8vo. Perth, 1774.
ADAMSON, JOHN. The Muse's Welcome to the high and mighty prince
James, king of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, after his
happy return to his old and native kingdome of Scotland, after
XIII years absence. Folio. Edinburgh, 1618.
ADAMSON, PATRICK. (_Archbishop of St. Andrews._) Paraphrase of the
Book of Job. 1597.
ANDERSON, PATRICK. The Picture of a Scotish Baron Court: a Dramatic
Poem. 12mo. pp. 48. Edinburgh, 1821.
AINSLIE, HEW. A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, interspersed with
Poems and Songs. 12mo. 1820.
ALLAN, EDWARD. Original Poems. 12mo. pp. 108. Glasgow, 1836.
ALLAN, ROBERT. Evening Hours: Poems and Songs. 12mo. pp. 237.
Glasgow, 1836.
ALVES, ROBERT. The Weeping Bard, and other Miscellaneous Poems.
1789.
ANE PLEASANT GARLAND of Sweet Scented Flowers. 4to. pp. 31. 1835.
ANSTRUTHER, SIR WILLIAM. Essays, Moral and Divine; interspersed with
Poetry. 1701.
ARBUTHNOT, ALEXANDER. Miseries of a Poor Scholar, Praise of Women,
Love, &c., &c. 1583.
ARBUTHNOT, JOHN, M. D. _Aye_ and _No_: a Poem. N. D.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Art of Preserving Health, and other Poems and
Plays. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1770.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Juvenile Poems, with Remarks on Poetry. 1791.
AYTON, SIR ROBERT. Poems on Woman's Inconstancy. 1600.
BAILLIE, JOANNA. Poems, Songs, and Plays. 8vo. pp. 847. $4.00.
London, 1851.
BALFOUR, ALEXANDER. Characters omitted in Crabbe's Parish Register,
with other Tales. 12mo. pp. 277. Edinburgh, 1825.
BALFOUR, SIR JAMES. (Ballads, and other Fugitive Poetical Pieces,
chiefly Scottish, from the collection of) 4to. Edinburgh, 1834.
BALNAVES, HENRY. A Poetical Rhapsody. N. D.
BANNATYNE, GEORGE. (Ane Ballet Book, written in the year of God
1558; and Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the MS. of) N.
D.
BARBOUR, JOHN. The Bruce and Wallace; or, the Metrical History of
Robert I. King of Scots, and Sir William Wallace. Published from
a manuscript dated 1489, as preserved in the Advocate's Library,
with Notes, Glossary, and a Memoir of the Life of the Author. By
John Jamieson. 2 vols. 4to. pp. 625 and 664. Edinburgh, 1820.
BARCLAY, ALEXANDER. Here begynneth the Eglogues, whereof the fyrst
thre conteyneth the Myseryes of Courters and Courts of all
Prynces in general. The fourth conteyning the Manners of Rich
Men anenst Poets and other Clerks. N. D.
BARCLAY, JOHN. A Description, in verse, of the Roman Catholic
Church. 1679.
BARCLAY, L. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish idiom. 12mo. pp. 185.
Glasgow, 1832.
BARRY, THOMAS. (_Provost of Bothwell._) The Battle of Otterburn
Bower. M.S. 1338.
BEATTIE, JAMES. Original Poems and Translations. 8vo. pp. 198.
London, 1760.
BEATTIE, JAMES HAY. Literary and Poetical Remains. 1800.
BELL, JOHN. Cartlane Craigs: a Poem. 12mo. pp. 73. Edinburgh, 1816.
BELLENDEN, JOHN. (_Translator of Hector B[oe]ce._) The Proheme of
the Cosmographe. Folio. 1556.
BINNEY, JAMES. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 18mo. Kelso,
1815.
BLACK, R. JOHN. The Falls of Clyde; or, the Fairies. A Scottish
Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts, with Three Preliminary
Dissertations. 8vo. pp. 241. Edinburgh, 1806.
BLACKLOCK, THOMAS. A Collection of Original Poems. 2 vols. 12mo. pp.
239 and 260. Edinburgh, 1760.
BLACKWOOD, ADAM. De Jure Regni. 1644.
BLAIR, JOHN. (_Chaplain to Sir William Wallace._) A History of
Wallace, in verse; written jointly by him and Thomas Gray. N. D.
BLAIR, ROBERT. The Grave, and other Poems. Edinburgh, 1731.
BLAMIRE, MISS. Songs in the Scottish dialect. N. D.
BOSWELL, SIR ALEXANDER. Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 8vo.
pp. 34. Edinburgh, 1803.
BOYD, MARK ALEXANDER. Poems--Latin, English, and Scottish. 1601.
BOYD, ZACHARIAH. A Poetical Version of the Bible, and other Poems.
1643.
BROWN, HUGH. The Covenanters, and other Poems. 1825.
BRUCE, MICHAEL. Poems on Several Occasions. 12mo. pp. 176.
Edinburgh, 1807.
BRUCE, GEORGE. Poems and Songs on Various Occasions. 8vo. pp. 203.
Edinburgh, 1811.
BUCHAN, P. The Recreation of Leisure Hours; being original Songs and
Verses, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 18mo. pp. 138.
Edinburgh, N. D.
BUCHANAN, ANDREW. Rural Poetry. 12mo. pp. 148. Stirling, 1817.
BUCHANAN, DUGALD. (_Schoolmaster at Rannoch._) Poems in the Gaelic
language. 1770.
BUCHANAN, GEORGE. A Latin Version of the Psalms of David, Satires,
Epigrams, and Plays. 1600.
BUREL, JOHN. The Description of the Queen's Majesties Maist
Honorable Entree into the Town of Edinburgh, upon the 19th day
of May, 1590. 1590.
BURNE, NICOL. The Disputation concerning the controverted Heads of
Religion holden in the realme of Scotland. (_A poetical satire
against the Reformers._) An Admonition to the Antichristian
Ministers of the Deformed Kirk of Scotland. 1581.
BURNES, JOHN. Plays, Poems, Tales, and other Pieces. 12mo. pp. 317.
Montrose, 1819.
BURNS, ROBERT (of Hamilton). Poems and Songs, chiefly in the
Scottish dialect. 1798.
BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Original
edition. 8vo. Kilmarnock, 1786.
BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 8vo. pp. 368.
Portrait (_original Edinburgh edition_). Edinburgh, 1787.
BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 2 vols. Small
8vo. pp. 249 and 283. Second edition. Edinburgh, 1793.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with an account of his Life, and a
criticism on his Writings. To which is added Some Observations
on the Character of the Scotish Peasantry, with a copious
Glossary. By _Dr. J. Currie_. 4 vols. 8vo. pp. 395, 469, 425,
and 414. London, 1802.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with his Life, _and numerous wood-cuts
by Bewick, after Thurston_. 2 vols. 12mo. Newcastle, 1808.
BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, with an account of his Life and Miscellaneous
Remarks on his Writings, containing also many Poems and Letters
not printed in Dr. Currie's edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 320 and
379. Edinburgh, 1811.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, edited by the Ettrick Shepherd and
William Motherwell. 5 vols. 12mo. pp. 344, 328, 348, 383, and
425. Fifteen engravings. Glasgow, 1830.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with a Life by Allan Cunningham. 8
vols. 12mo. pp. 384, 345, 346, 377, 336, 329, 344, and 384.
(_Sixteen engravings._) London, 1834.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, containing his Life by John Lockhart;
the Poetry and Correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition;
Biographical Sketches of the Poet by himself, Gilbert Burns,
Professor Stuart, and others; Essay on Scottish Poetry; Burns's
Songs from Johnson's Musical Museum and Thompson's Select
Melodies; Select Scottish Songs by other Poets, from the best
collections, with Burns's Remarks. 8vo. pp. 591. Edinburgh,
1837.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Poems of. A new edition, with additional Poems, a
new Life of the Author and Notes, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas.
3 vols. 12mo. London, 1839.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of, with a Life by Allan Cunningham, and
Notes by Gilbert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Thomas
Carlyle, Robert Chambers, Wm. Cowper, Cromek, Allan Cunningham,
Dr. Currie, Wm. Hazlitt, James Hogg, Lord Francis Jeffrey, T.
Landseer, J. Lockhart, W. Motherwell, Sir Walter Scott,
Professor John Wilson, and Wm. Wordsworth. Royal 8vo. pp. 820.
London, 1846.
BURNS, ROBERT. The Life and Works of, edited by Robert Chambers. 4
vols. 12mo. Edinburgh, 1852.
BURT, JOHN. Horæ Poeticæ; or, the Transient Musings of a solitary
Lyre, consisting of Poems and Songs in English and Scotch. 18mo.
pp. 194. Burlington, N. J., 1819.
CAMERON, WILLIAM. A Poetical Dialogue on Religion, in the Scottish
dialect, between two Gentlemen and two Ploughmen; and, two
additional Cantos to Dr. Beattie's Minstrel. Edinburgh, 1788.
CAMPBELL, GEORGE. Poems and Songs, &c. Born 1761.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS. The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming,
Theodoric, Pilgrims of Glencoe, and other Poems and Songs. V. Y.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT. Poems by. 4to. pp. 48. Edinburgh, 1835.
CRICHTON, JAMES. (_The Admirable._) Latin Poems. _Sine loco, sine
anno._
CHURCHYARD, THOMAS. Chips concerning Scotland, being a collection of
his Pieces relative to that country; with Historical Notes, and
a Life of the Author. (Edited by George Chalmers.) 12mo. pp.
221. London, 1817.
CLAPPERTON, --. Wa Worth Maryage! N. D.
CLARKE, WILLIAM. The Grand Tryal; or, Poetical Exercitations upon
the Book of Job. 1685.
CLELAND, WILLIAM. A collection of several Poems and Verses composed
upon various occasions. 12mo. pp. 140. 1697.
COCHRAN, WILLIAM. The Seasons, in Four Descriptive Poems, with Moral
Reflections and Hymns. 1780.
COCKBURN, MRS. The Flowers of the Forest, and other Songs. N. D.
COLVIL, R. The Caledonian Hero, and other Poems. 8vo. 1788.
COLVIL, SAMUEL. The Whigs' Supplication; or, the Scotch Hudibras: a
mock Poem, in two parts. 18mo. pp. 148. St. Andrews, 1796.
COWPER, ROBERT. Poetry, chiefly in the Scottish language. 2 vols.
12mo. pp. 285. Inverness, Scotland, 1808.
CRAWFORD, ARCHIBALD. The Rash Vow, Bonnie Mary Hay, and other Songs
and Poems. 1825.
CRAWFORD, DAVID. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect; and two
Comedies, namely, Courtship à la Mode, Love at First Sight, and
Love Epistles in Verse. Edinburgh, 1798.
CRAWFORD, ROBERT. The Bush aboon Traquair, and other Songs. 1732.
CRAIG, ALEXANDER. Amorous Songs, Sonnets, and Elegies. 4to. London,
1604.
CRAIG, JOHN. Poems. 12mo. pp. 147. Edinburgh, 1827.
CUNNINGHAM, A. (_Earl of Glencairn._) Epistles, and other Poems.
1542.
CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN. Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a Dramatic Poem; the
Mermaid of Galloway; the Legend of Richard Foulder; and twenty
Scottish Songs. 12mo. pp. 210. London, 1822.
CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN. The Maid of Elvar. A Poem, in Twelve Parts. 12mo.
London, 1832.
CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS M. _Har'st Kirn_, and other Poems and Songs.
1797.
DALRYMPLE, JAMES. A Collection of Songs. 1756.
DALYELL, JOHN. Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century. 2 vols.
12mo. pp. 161 and 380. Edinburgh, 1802.
DALZIEL, GAVIN. John and Saunders, a Pastoral; and the Downfall of
Napoleon, with other Poems. 1792.
DAVIDSON, JOHN. The Poetical Remains of, with a Biographical Account
of the Author. 12mo. pp. 73. Edinburgh, 1829.
DEMPSTER, THOMAS. Poems and Plays. N. D.
DIXON, JAMES H. Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads.
12mo. London, 1845.
DOIG, DAVID, LL.D. Panoramic Poems. N. D.
DONALDSON, JAMES. (_Farmer._) A Pick Tooth for Swearers; or, a
Looking-glass for Atheists and Profane Persons: and Husbandry,
Anatomized. 1698.
DONALD, ANDREW. Plays, Poems, and Songs. London, 1787.
DOW, ALEXANDER. Plays and Poems. 1769.
DOUGLAS, FRANCIS. (_Baker._) Rural Love, a Tale in the Scottish
dialect, and the Birth Day. 1741.
DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (_Bishop of Dunkeld._) Satire on the Times; quharin
the Author schawes the Staet of thys Fals Warld, quhere all
Thyngs is turnit fra Vertue tye Vyce. N. D.
DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (_Bishop of Dunkeld._) The Palice of Honour. 1553.
DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (_Bishop of Dunkeld._) _The thirteen Bukes of_
Eneados, of the Famous Poet Virgill. Translated out of Latyne
verses into Scottish metir. _Every Buke_ having hys perticular
Prologue. 4to. London, 1553.
DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (_Bishop of Dunkeld._) Virgil's Æneis, translated
into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas, Bishop of
Dunkeld. A new edition, wherein many of the errors of the former
are corrected, and the defects supplied from an excellent
_Manuscript_. To which is added a large Glossary, explaining the
difficult words, which may serve for a Dictionary to the old
Scottish language. To which is prefixed, an Account of the
Author's Life and Writings, from the best historical records.
Folio. pp. 468, and a Glossary. Edinburgh, 1710.
DOUGLAS, GAWIN. (_Bishop of Dunkeld._) A Description of Winter, with
his Great Storms and Tempests, and a Description of May. N. D.
DOUGLAS, R. K. Poems and Songs, chiefly Scottish. 12mo. pp. 168.
Edinburgh, 1824.
DOUN, ROBERT. Poems in the Gaelic language. N. D.
DRUMMOND, SIR WILLIAM (_of Hawthornden_). The Poems of, with the
Life of the Author, by Peter Cunningham. 12mo. pp. 336. London,
1833.
DRUMMOND, THOMAS, LL.D. Poems Sacred to Religion. 1756.
DUDGEON, M. Songs, Poems, &c. N. D.
DUNBAR, JOHN. Epigrams and Elegies. 1616.
DUNBAR, WILLIAM. The Poems of, now first collected, with Notes, and
a Memoir of his Life, by David Laing. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 326 and
498. $5.50. Edinburgh, 1834.
EGLISHAM, D. (_The Detractor of Buchanan._) Latin Poems, &c.
ELLIOT, SIR GEORGE. Amynta, and other Poems. 1725.
ERSKINE, ANDREW. Plays, Eclogues, and Songs. 1670.
ERSKINE, HENRY. The Emigrant, a Poem; the Sensitive Plant and the
Nettle; Songs, &c.
ERSKINE, REV. RALPH. Gospel Sonnets, and other Poems. 1740.
ERSKINE, SIR DAVID. King James the First of _Scotland_, a Tragedy in
Five Acts. 12mo. pp. 114. Kelso, 1827.
ERSKINE, SIR DAVID. King James the Fifth of _Scotland_, a Tragedy in
Five Acts. 12mo. pp. 145. Kelso, 1828.
EWEN, REV. JOHN. The Boatic Rows, and other Songs. N. D.
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