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In preparing this poem for the press, the original edition of Hume's Poems has been collated with a MS. of the Wodrow collection, in the library of the Faculty of Advocates. The phraseology of Hume is rather English than Scotish; and the orthography, which, at the period when our author lived, was extremely fluctuating and uncertain, has therefore been reduced to the modern standard, except in the Scotish words and phrases which he has adopted.