The Prose Works of Robert Burns: With the Notes of Currie and Cromek, and Many by the Present Editor

acquaintance admire Auchtertyre auld Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful bosom Burns's character charming compliments copy Creech dare dear Sir DEAR SIR-I delighted Dugald Stewart Dumfries DUNLOP Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh Ellisland enclosed epistle esteem Excise fancy farm favour favourite feelings friendship GAVIN HAMILTON genius gentleman give Glencairn Gordon Castle happy hear heart Heaven honest honour hope humble servant idea Jenny Geddes Kilmarnock kind lady late letter Lord Madam Mauchline merit mind miserable Miss Mossgiel muse never night obliged perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetic poetry poor present racter respect rhyming ROBERT Robert Burns Robert Fergusson Scotch Scotland Scots Scottish sentiments sincerely song soul stanzas taste tell thee thing THOMSON TO BURNS thou thought tion tune verses WILLIAM DUNBAR wish worth write