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In comparing this edition with others, it will be found to possess several advantages. It contains, besides a number of other pieces not inserted in Dr. Currie’s edition, The Jolly Beggars, a cantata replete with humorous description and discrimination of character; as also his celebrated Holy Willie’s Prayer, a piece of satire unequalled for exquisite severity and felicitous delineation.

In the editions hitherto published, no regard is paid to method of classification. In this, the poems are