EXTEMPORE. TO MR. S** E, On refusing to dine with him, after having been promised the first of company, and the first of Cookery. 17th December, 1795. No more of your guests, be they titled or not, To MR. S**E, With a present of a dozen of Porter. O HAD the malt thy strength of mind, A gift that e'en for S**e were fit. Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries. THE THE DUMFRIES VOLUNTEERS. Tune-" PUSH ABOUT THE JORUM.' April, 1795. DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat? E'er we permit a foreign foe Fall de rall, &c. O let us not like snarling tykes And wi' a rung decide it. VOL. IV. Cc Be * A high hill at the source of the Nith. † A well-known mountain at the mouth of the same river. Be Britain still to Britain true, For never but by British hands The kettle o' the kirk and state, Our fathers blude the kettle bought, Fall de rall, &c. The wretch that wad a tyrant a own, But, while we sing "God save the king," POEM, POEM, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796. FRIEND of the poet tried and leal, Wi' a' his witches Are at it, skelpin! jig and reel, In my poor pouches. I modestly fu' fain wad hint it, That one pound one, I sairly want it ; If wi' the hizzie down ye sent it, It would be kind; And while my heart wi' life-blood dunted So may the auld year gang out moaning To thee and thine; Domestic peace and comforts crowning The hail design. POSTSCRIPT. Ye've heard this while how I've been licket, And sair me sheuk ; But by gude luck I lap a wicket, And turn'd a neuk. But by that health, I've got a share o't, A tentier way: Then farewell folly, hide and hair o't For ance and ay. Sent |