will make no difagreeable figure amongst those of modern date; and that they will produce the fame effect here, as Mr. Pope obferves a moderate use of old words may have in a poem; which, adds he, is like working old abbey-ftones into a modern building, and which I have fometimes feen practifed with good fuccefs. Upon the whole, as we have been favoured with the best affiftance in compiling this volume, no further apology is neceffary; and as the approbation of the public has been already fecured to these poems feparately, we hope they have no lefs reafon to claim it, when thus published together. THE Page 'HE Thistle and the Rofe, by W. Dúnbar The Genealogy of Chrift, by Mr. Lowth 13 24 "The Eagle and Robin Red-Breaft, a Fable, by Archibald Scott, written before the Year 1600. 28 Ode to Fancy, by Mr. Jofeph Warton Ode to Evening, by the fame Ode to Evening, by Mr. Collins 31 37 39 Ifis, an Elegy, by Mr. Mason of Cambridge 42 The Triumph of Ifis, by Mr. Thomas Warton of Oxford A Love-Elegy, by Mr. Hammond The Tears of Scotland, 1746. An Elegy written in a country church-yard, by Mr. Grey 47 47 62 65 On the Death of Prince Frederic. Written át Paris, by David Lord Viscount Stormont 70 On the fame, by Mr. James Clitherow of Oxford 75 Ode on the Approach of Summer, by a Gentle 94 man formerly of the University of Aberdeen 81 A Paftoral in the manner of Spenfer, from Theocritus, Idyll. 20. By the same Infcribed on a beautiful Grotto near the Water 96 Love Elegy, by Mr. Smollet 97 MARGARET DAUGHTER то HENRY VII. OF ENGLAND, QUEEN то JAMES IV. KING OF SCOTS. BY WILLIAM DUNBAR. The THISTLE and the ROSE, By Lady Nature chofe, Brave King and lovely Queen. I. HEN March with varying winds was overpaft, Wand fweet April had with his filver showers Ta'n leave of Nature with an orient blast, II. In bed at morrow, fleeping as I lay, III. Methought fresh May before my bed upstood, Sluggard, she said, awake anon for shame, V. Whereto, quoth I, fhall I uprise at morrow, For in thy month few birds have I heard fing, They have mare caufe to weep and plain their forrow: |