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 To ay Scotland is too poor for this, is no Anwer at all: 'Tis for a Lame man, becaue he cannot run, to ly down in the Dirt, and ay, He wont tand upon his Legs: To be thus poor, is to be ever poor—. Your Wealth is before you, 'tis in your very Bowels, 'tis in every Landlords hand to encreae and improve; no Nation has o much room for it; none o much Caue for it as your elves.

There are ome Noble Families in Scotland, whoe improv'd Etates are living Witnees to the Truth of this, where the Flourihing Groves, Flowry Meadows, Rich Patures, large Cattel, tores of Hay for the Cattel, and Muck for the Land, upbraid the Neighbouring Gentlemen with not being equally forward, to accept of Natures Bounty, and put her on to do her Duty.

I hall conclude this Addres with a few Lines, which you will find again in the following Poem, and which contrary to Practice, I quote here to inculcat this Argument.

This is the hort Subtance of this Addres, and indeed is the chief Deign of the following Poem, next to doing that Jutice to the Scots Nation, which I thought my Duty. If either be accepted or eteemed ueful, the Author is ufficiently gratified.

I acknowledge that the Honour done both to the Author and the Work, in the ready ubcription to the Charge, by uch an illutrious Roll of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom, and in the Grant from her Majeties mot Honourable Privy Council, to prevent urreptitious Impreions of it, are uch Honours, epecially being done before the performance has been hown, as I know not how to expres my grateful Sene of, only by acknowledging my elf infinitly obliged, and ever bound to how my Gratitude, both to the Gentlemen, and on their Accounts to the whole Nation; and tho their own Modety forbids me printing a Lit of the Names of the Subcribers; yet it cannot be conceal'd from the World, that any Man that attempts to erve Scotland, hall always meet with Men of Sene and Honour there, both to reward and encourage him.

The Debt of Jutice due from me on this Account, will, I hope, excue me for offering thee Sheets to the Parliament of Scotland, where as ome Gentlemen have encoureg'd this Work without Doors, all I hope, will grant their Pardon within to the weak endeavour of