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Museum, 1796. Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now.

pint-stoup =pint- paidl't = paddled guid-willie = u'ell-meant,

mug burn = brook full of food-will

braes = hill-sides fiere = friend, com- waught = draught go wans = daisies panion

��The first four lines are old. The rest were written apparently in 1788, when the poet sent this song and Auld Lang Syne to Mrs. Dunlop. It appeared in the Museum, 1790.

tassie = a cup ; Fr. ' tasse '

XLV

About 1777-80: printed 1801. 'One of my juvenile works," says Burns. ' I do not think it very remarkable, either for its merits or demerits.' But Hazlitt thought the world of it, and now it passes for one of Burns's masterpieces.

trysted = appointed stoure = dust and din

XLVI

Museum, 1796. Attributed, in one shape or another, to a certain Captain Ogilvie. Sharpe, too, printed a broadside in which the third stanza (used more than once by Sir Walter) is found as here. But Scott Douglas (Burns, iii. 173) has ' no doubt that this broad- side was printed after 1796,' and as it stands the thing is assuredly the work of Burns. The refrain and the metrical structure have been used by Scott (Rokeby, IV. 28)., Carlyle, Charles Kingsley ( Do Icino to Margaret), and Mr. Swinburne (A Reiver's Neck Verse}, among others.

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Of the first four numbers, the high-water mark of Wordsworth's achievement, all four were written in 1802 ; the second and third were published in 1803 ; the first and 'fourth in 1807. The Ode to Duty was written in 1805, and published in 1807, to which year belongs that Song for the Feast of Brougham Castle, from which I have extracted the excellent verses here called Two Victories.

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The first three numbers are from Marmion (1808): I. Introduc- tion; v. 12; and vi. 18-20, 25-27, and 33-34. The next is from The Lady of the Lake (1810), I. 1-9; The Outlaw is from

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