beauty,

PAGE

O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet, iv. 67
O May, thy morn was ne'er so sweet, iii. 209
O meikle thinks my luve o' my
iii. 230
O mirk, mirk is this midnight hour, iii. 278
O my luve's like a red, red rose, iv. 59
On a bank of flowers, in a summer
day,
iii. 103
On Cessnock Banks there lives a lass, i. 48
O open the door, some pity to shew, iii. 285
O Philly, happy be that day,

iv. 110

Long, long the night,

iv. 158

Loud blaw the frosty breezes,

ii. 215

Louis, what reck I by thee?

iv. 62

O poortith cauld, and restless love,
O sad and heavy should I part, .
O saw ye bonny Lesley,

iii. 273

iv. 272

iii. 222

ii. 216

i. 179

Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion, iv. 160
Musing on the roaring ocean,
My bonny lass, I work in brass,
My Chloris, mark how green the
groves,

My father was a farmer upon the
Carrick border, O,

My Harry was a gallant gay,

My heart is a breaking, dear tittie,
My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is wae, and unco wae,
My heart's in the Highlands, my
heart is not here,
iii. 104
My Peggy's face, my Peggy's form, ii. 163
Nae gentle dames, though e'er sae
fair,

O stay, sweet warbling woodlark,

iv. 157

iv. 275

iv. 136

iv. 278

iv. 167

the

iv. 61

Out ower yon muir, out ower

yon

moss,

iv. 66

O wat ye wha's in yon town,

iv. 135

O wha is she that lo'es me,

iv. 250

O whare did you get that hauver
meal bannock?

iv. 252

Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn,
Sweetest May, let love inspire thee, iv. 277
The bonniest lad that e'er I saw, iv. 272
The Catrine woods were yellow seen, i. 157
The day returns, my bosom burns, ii. 283
The deil came fiddling through the
town,
iii. 217
The gloomy night is gathering fast, i. 310
Their groves o' sweet myrtle let
foreign lands reckon,
The laddies by the banks o' Nith, iii. 77
The last time I came o'er the moor, iii. 299
The lazy mist hangs from the brow of
the hill,

iii, 229

iv. 158

ii. 300

iii. 305

The lovely lass o' Inverness,

iv. 58

iv. 63

The noble Maxwells and
powers,

their

iii. 234

iv. 251

346

PAGE

PAGE

There's braw, braw lads on Yarrow
braes, .

iv. 196

iii. 274

There's nought but care

on every

hand,

i. 90
There was a bonny lass, and a bonny,
iv. 278
bonny lass,
i. 95
There was a lad was born in Kyle,
There was a lass, and she was fair, iii. 308
There was a lass, they ca'd her Meg, iv. 253
There was once a day, but old Time
iv. 249
then was young,
There were five carlines in the south, iii. 79
There were three kings into the cast, i. 66
The small birds rejoice in the green
ii. 251
leaves returning,
The smiling spring comes in rejoicing, iii. 239
The Thames flows proudly to the sea, iii. 105
iv. 260
The tither morn, when I forlorn,
iv. 261
The weary pund, the weary pund,
Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling! ii. 214
Thine am I, my faithful fair,
Though cruel fate should bid us part, i. 261
Though women's minds like winter
winds,

.

i. 102

iii. 244, 257
iii. 99
When rosy morn comes in wi' showers-
When wild war's deadly blast was
iii. 289
blawn,
iv. 271
iv. 27, 32
Where, braving angry winter's storms, ii. 163
Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea,
Where live ye, my bonny lass?
While larks with little wing,

When winter's wind was blawing
cauld,.

Where are the joys I hae met in the
morning?

iii. 239

iv. 263

iv. 10

Whom will ye send to London town? iv. 138
Why, why tell thy lover?
Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed,
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?
Wilt thou be my dearie?

iv. 165

iii. 238

i. 257

iv. 62

True-hearted was he, the sad swain
o' the Yarrow,

To thee, loved Nith, thy gladsome
plains,

Ye banks, and braes, and streams
around,

iii. 248

Turn again, thou fair Eliza,

"Twas even-the dewy fields were

Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,
Ye flowery banks o' bonny Doon,
Ye gallants bright, I rede ye right,
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear,
iv. 264
give an ear,
Ye're welcome to despots, Dumourier, iii. 294
Ye sons of old Killie, assembled by

iii. 238

ii. 22

iii. 101

Up in the morning's no for me,
Up wi' the carles o' Dysart,

Willie,
Yestreen I got a pint o' wine,

i. 286

iii. 293

Wae is my heart, and the tear's in
my e'e,

Wee Willie Gray, and his leather
wallet,

iv.

Wha is that at my bower-door?

Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty
and wide,
Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain,
Young Jockey was the blithest lad,
Young Peggy blooms our bonniest
lass,

iii. 232

iv. 269

iv. 259

i. 201

Aberdeen, Burns at, ii. 130.
Aberfeldy, the falls at, ii. 118.
ADAIR, Dr James M., accompanies Burns to
Harvieston, ii. 143, 319.

ADDINGTON, Mr Henry [Lord Sidmouth],
verses by, on Burns, ii. 129; iv. 150.
Afton, river, celebrated by Burns, i. 253.
AIKEN, Andrew, poem addressed to, i. 249.

"

Miss Grace, i. 104; ii. 104; iv. 190.
Mr Robert, writer in Ayr, i. 136,
161; account of, 230, 232; letter to, 239;
297; letter to, 325; ii. 201, 258; iv. 226,
236.

AINSLIE, Rachel, ii. 70, 85.

--, Robert, a young friend of Burns,
ii. 68; accompanies Burns on a tour, 70;
letters to, 93, 99, 108, 166; anecdote told
by, 166; letters to, 234, 260, 266, 272,
274, 313; iii. 39, 73; visits Burns at
Ellisland, 142; letters to, 204, 301.
AINSLIE'S map of Scotland, iii. 159.
Airds Hill, adventure of Burns at, iv. 6.
Albany, Bonny Lass of, a Jacobite effusion,
ii. 134.

ALEXANDER, Wilhelmina, of Ballochmyle,
i. 286; letter to, 337.

ALISON, Rev. Archibald, iii. 160.

ALLAN, David, painter, iii. 281; iv. 159, 162.
Alloway Kirk, iii. 142, 146, 150.

Alnwick, Burns at, ii. 86.

American war, ballad on, ii. 39.

iii. 136; letter to, 137.

BALFOUR, Mr James, a noted singer of
Scottish songs, iv. 30.

Ballads, ancient, Burns's admiration of,
i. 101.

BALLANTYNE, John, Esq., of Ayr, i. 239,
313; letters to, ii, 9, 17, 22, 34; anecdote
of, iii. 47.

Ballochmyle, adventure of Burns at, i. 286.
BALMERINO'S dirk, iv. 58.
Banff, Burns at, ii. 129.

Banks of Helicon, an old tune, iv. 29.
Bannockburn, Burns on the field of, ii. 112.
Baptism, anecdote of a, in Burns's house,
iii. 272.

BARCLAY, Mr, a Berean minister, iii. 102.
BEGBIE, Ellison, i. 47; letters to, 50.
BEGG, Mrs (Isabella Burns), sister of the
poet, i. 36, 61, 72, 79, 80.
Belles of Mauchline, i. 97.
BENSON, Miss (Mrs Basil Montagu), letter
to, iii. 283; anecdote reported by, iv. 47.
BEUGO, Mr, engraver of Burns's portrait,
ii. 32; letter to, 283.

BIGGAR, Misses, Kirkoswald, i. 30.
BIRTWHISTLE, Alexander, Esq., iii. 78;
iv. 140.

BLACKLOCK, Dr Thomas, the blind poet,
i. 310, 339; ii. 24; letter to, 299; epistle
from, iii. 64; epistle to, 65; verse epistle
from, 136.

BLACKSTOCK, Miss Jane, song upon, iii. 275.

'ANNA,' a song upon, iii. 293.

ARGYLE, Duke of, anecdote of, iv. 292.
Association theory of beauty, iii. 161.
ATHOLE, Duke of, entertains Burns,
ii. 119.

AULD, Rev. Mr, minister of Mauchline,
i. 134, 277; iii. 48.

Ayr, Burns resides at, in boyhood, i. 13.
AYTON, Sir Robert, a song by, iii. 232.

BACON, of Brownhill Inn, iv. 39.
BAILLIE, Lady Grizel-a ballad of hers
quoted, iv. 72.

BAILLIE, Miss Lesley, song upon, iii. 222,
225, 247.

BAIRD, Rev. George, letter to, iii, 166.

ii. 119.

BLAIR, Rev. Hugh, i. 340; ii. 52, 60; letter

to, 67; letter by him to Burns, 67.
BLAIR, Sir J. H., elegy on, ii. 101.
BLANE, John, gaudsman to Burns, i. 147.
BLOOMFIELD, Robert, the poet, iii. 270.
Bonny Doon, a song, ii. 22.

Books bought by Burns from Mr Peter Hill,
iii. 158.

Books read by Burns in early life, i. 6,

350.

BOWMAKER, Rev. Dr, of Dunse, ii. 71, 85.
BOYD, Rev. William, of Fenwick, i. 226.
BREADALBANE, Earl of, satirised by Burns,
i. 262.

BRICE, Mr David, letters to, i. 200.

Brow, Burns at, for sea-bathing, iv. 202.

Mrs, of Clackmannan, ii. 151.

Robert, his sword, Burns knighted
by, ii. 152. 'Address to his Men at
Bannockburn,' iv. 20.

'Bruce's Address'-Scots wha hae, &c. Cir-
cumstances of its composition, iv. 20.
BUCHAN, Earl of, ii. 5, 26; letter to, 26;
invitation from and letter to, iii. 186;
letter to, iv. 45.

BUCHANITES, Burns's account of the, i. 94.
BURN, Mr Robert, architect, iii. 214.
BURNES, Mr James, of Montrose, letters of
the poet to, i. 81, 94, 304; visited by the
poet, ii. 132; letter to, iii. 11; iv. 206;
sends help to Burns, 208; his generous
offers to Mrs R. Burns, 223.
BURNES, Mr James, of Montrose (second of
the name), ii. 132; iv. 207.
BURNET, Eliza, daughter of Lord Monboddo,
ii. 10, 11, 13; iii. 159.

BURNS, Agnes, mother of the poet, i. 20,
340, 349; iv. 234.

BURNS, Agnes and Annabella, sisters of the
poet, i. 36, 340.

BURNS, Elizabeth, a daughter of the poet,
iii. 254; iv. 175, 184.

BURNS, Elizabeth, two children of Burns so
named, iv. 309.

BURNS, Francis Wallace, the poet's second
son, born, iii. 51; iv. 231.
BURNS, Gilbert, brother of the poet, i. 5,
18, 82, 108, 341, 347; letter to, ii. 133,
217; Robert Burns lends money to, 253;
writes to R. Burns, 309; letter to, iii.
92; remarks by, on political time-servers,
271; letter to, iv. 205; letter from, 222;
conduct at his brother's death, 223;
letter of, to Mr George Thomson, 228;
his edition of the poet's works, 233, 234.
BURNS, James Glencairn, the poet's youngest
surviving son, iv. 231.
BURNS, Miss, iii. 108; iv. 242.

Mr Robert, the poet's eldest son,
iii. 284; iv. 61, 126, 128, 231.
BURNS, Mrs Robert, the poet's wife (see
also JEAN'), iii. 63, 132, 143, 254; iv.
121, 128, 174, 205, 209, 223, 230, 232.
BURNS, Robert, the poet, his ancestry, i.
343; parentage and early days, 2; his
first love, 5, 23; books read by him in
boyhood, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 32, 350,
351; carly companions, 3, 4; anecdote
of his birth, 9; at Kirkoswald school,
25; at Irvine, 33, 53; early love affairs,
34; musical accomplishments of, 62;
sober habits in early life, 82; as a
farmer and man of business, 83; (also
iii. 131, 133, 137); severe illness and
penitential reflections, 84;
as a free-
mason, 92, 284; acquaintance with
Jean Armour, 97; first determination

307; contemplates

of his mind to literature, 98; religious
feelings and habits, 160 (also ii. 46, 190,
219; iii. 40, 55, 83); collects money for
his poems at Maybole, 297; visits St
Margaret's Hill,
emigration to the West Indies, 236, 238,
253, 290, 296, 312, 321, 337; troubles
connected with his passion for Jean
Armour, 235, 242, 289; publishes his
poems, 291; first criticism on his poems,
336; metres of Burns, 358; sale of
Kilmarnock edition of the poems, 361;
comes to Edinburgh, ii. 1; reception
by the Edinburgh literati, 10; personal
appearance and conversation in Edin-
burgh, 14; at Smellie's printing-office,
29; portrait of, by Nasmyth, 31; raises
a monument to Robert Fergusson, 35; as
a lion of the season, 48; description of,
at Dr Blacklock's, 51; meeting of Sir
Walter Scott and Burns, 55; second
edition of his poems published, 61; tour
in the south of Scotland, 70-87; trip to
West Highlands, 92; Highland tour,
109-133; trip to Harvieston, 142; feeling
for fine scenery, 153; acquaintance with
Mrs M'Lehose (Clarinda), 173; appointed
to a situation in the Excise, 227; takes
a farm in Dumfriesshire, 243; confirms
his union with Jean Armour, 260; com-
mences residence at Ellisland, 265; be-
comes exciseman of his district, iii. 51;
manner of performing his duty, 71;
breaks his arm, 171; gives up his farm,
and removes to Dumfries, 200; his
acrimony and its source, 179, 253; his
manner of life in Dumfries, 259; his
political manifestations, 263; escapes of
political feeling, 294; reprimanded by
the Excise Board, 267; sufferings from
bad times, iv. 1; excursion with Mr
Syme through Galloway, 2; exaspera-
tions, 7; his favourite walks, 13, 61;
anecdote of, connected with a library,
34; impromptus, 40; gives an imprudent
toast, 47; offends and quarrels with Mrs
Riddel, 49; democratic effusions, 77; a
poetical goddess, 89; his insouciant cha-
racter, 115; his style of housekeeping at
Dumfries, 120; his daily life in Dum-
fries, 126; adventure at Ecclefechan,
134; neglect of, by the ministry, 150;
his moral habits, 174; his health fatally
injured, 183; his death, 210; funeral,
211; remarks on his character and
talents, 219; his debts, 222; exertions
in behalf of his family, 224; his works
edited by Dr Currie, 230; monument to,
235; versicles of, 236; reputation in his
latter years, 301; subscriptions for
Burns's family, 306; bibliography of
Burns, 314; supplementary letters, 326.
BURNS, William, brother of the poet, iii. 12;
letters to, 13, 23, 25, 75, 111; death of,
137.

BURNS, William, father of the poet, i. 2,
8, 9, 11, 15; foresees his son's genius,
22; letter of the poet to, 55; last illness,
77; Mrs Begg's recollections of, 79;
death, 80; epitaph on, by the poet, 80;
his religious sentiments, 122.

Mr John, entertains Burns, iv. 55;
quarrel with, 138, 141; his Lamentation,
144, 197; epitaph on, 247.
Business, Burns as a man of, i. 83; iii. 131,
133, 137.

CADELL and DAVIES, Messrs, of London,
publish the poet's works, iv. 229; en-
gage Mr Gilbert Burns on an improved
edition, 233.

Caledonian Hunt, gentlemen of, subscribe
for Burns's poems, ii. 63; dedication
to, 62.

CAMERON, Omeron, story of, ii. 151.
CAMPBELL, Ilay, lord advocate, ii. 44.

-, Mary (Highland Mary), account
of, i. 252; parting of Burns with, 254;
question regarding the date of Burns's
attachment to, 254-257, 320-324; death
of, 321; anniversary of her death in
1789, iii. 63; poem on, 63; final investi-
gation of the date, 316; song upon
(Highland Mary'), 248.

CANDLISH, Mr James, letters to, ii. 46, 225; |
allusion to, iii. 19.

Canongate Kilwinning Lodge of Free-
masons, ii. 5.

CARDONNEL, Mr, antiquary, envelope
addressed to, iii. 70.

CARFRAE, Rev. Mr P., letter from, iii. 15;
letter to, 18.

'Carlines, the Five,' an election ballad,
iii. 79.

CARLINI, the melancholy, iv. 70.
Carlisle, Burns at, ii. 86.

CARLYLE, Thomas, iv. 134, 220.
Carrick coast, i. 25, 26.

Carron Works, Burns passes, ii. 110; visited
by Burns, 142.

Carronades, four, bought by Burns, and
sent to France, iii. 218.
CATHCART, Miss, ii. 124.

CHALMERS, Miss Margaret, ii. 112; letters
to, 141, 162; songs upon, 163; letter to,
164; her character, 165; letters to, 168,
177, 181, 199, 227, 242, 254, 286.
CHALMERS, Mr William, writer in Ayr,
i. 299, 339; ii. 13.

CHLORIS (Jean Lorimer), songs on, iii. 229;
iv. 85, 94; verses to, 98; her story, 96;
songs upon, 104, 106.

CLARK, William, a servant of Burns, iii. 132.
CLARKE, Mr James, teacher, iii. 178; letters
to, 211, 215; besought for a return of
lent money, iv. 189; letter from, 189;
letter to, 201; 222.

CLARKE, Mr, musician, ii. 159, 217; letters
to, iii. 220; 225; iv. 9; jocular allusions
to, 10; letter to, asking his interference
in a quarrel, 48, 167.

CLEGHORN, Mr Robert, letter to, ii. 251.
CLUNIE, Rev. Mr, a song sung by, iv. 83.
COCHRANE, Grizel, anecdote of, ii. 113.
COCKBURN, Lord, iv. 228.

-, Mrs, i. 30; iii. 310.

Coldstream Bridge, Burns at, ii. 72.

of Burns's character, iv. 310.
Commonplace-book of Burns, 1783, i. 72,
90, 95, 99, 160.
Commonplace-book, 1787, ii. 58.
-, 1788, ii. 267.
Communion, circumstances attending ad-
ministration of, in Scotland, i. 268.
CONSTABLE, Lady Winifred Maxwell, iii. 76;
letters to, 84, 176; song upon, 234.
'Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair,' a
song representing Burns's own character,
iv. 113, 115.

COPLAND, Mrs, of Dumfries, iv. 190.
'Cotter's Saturday Night,' account of that
poem, i. 143; the poem, 161; ii. 72, 130;
picture of by David Allan, iv. 162.
Covenant, Solemn League and, epigram,
iv. 243.

CowPER, the poet, Burns's opinion of,
iv. 179.

Cox, Mr Robert, paper by, on Burns's
head, iv. 313.

CRAIG, Mrs, visited by Burns when at
Brow, iv. 209.

Craigieburn Wood, iii. 228.

CRAIK, Miss, of Arbigland, iii. 283; iv. 7.
Cranium of Burns, iv. 309.
CRAWFORD, Robert, the pastoral poet, iv. 25,
284.

CRAWFORD, Thomas, of Cartsburn, ii. 250.
CREECH, Mr William, publisher, ii. 5;
letter to, 77; tedious settlement of
accounts with, 172, 199, 200; sum paid
by, to Burns, 248; satirical sketch of,
iii. 3; a new settling of accounts, 12;
'at last amicable and fair,' 21; letter to,
36; Burns takes revenge upon, 177.
CRIRIE, Rev. Dr, ii. 294.
Crochallan Fencibles, ii. 30.
CROMBIE, Alexander, iii. 158.
CROMEK, Robert, his Reliques of Burns'
quoted, ii. 53, 276.

'Cromlet's Lilt,' anecdote of, iv. 286,
CRUIKSHANK, Miss Jenny, Beauteous rose-
bud,' ii. 155.

CRUIKSHANK, Mr William, letter to, ii.
146; Burns lodges with, 155; letters
to, 233, 308; noticed, iii. 29; epigram
upon, iv. 242.

CUNNINGHAM, Allan-his 'Life and Works
of Burns' referred to, i. vii.; quoted,
ii. 22; corrected, 235, 320; quoted, 72,
126, 191, 192, 201, 283.
CUNNINGHAM, a player and poet, iv. 283.
Lady E., letter to, iii. 171.
Mr Alexander, a friend of
the poet, ii. 50; letter to, iii. 28; letter
from, 114; letters to, 114, 130, 167, 178,
230, 280; song on an event in his life, iv.
11; letter to, 56; song addressed to, 168;
letter to, 204; his exertions for the family
of Burns, 224.

CUNNINGHAME, Mr, of Enterkin, ii. 284.
Curling, a game on the ice, i. 189.

CURRIE, Dr James, i. 9; iv. 134, 224;
publication of his edition of Burns's
works, 230.

Burns, iii. 187.

Daily life of Burns at Dumfries, iv. 126.