with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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Come now, my lads, and tak your glass,
And try ilk other to surpass.
In wishing health to every lass
To dance the Reel of Bogie.
FOR LAKE OF GOLD.
The country/ girls in Ayrshire, instead of the
She me forsook for a great duke,
For Athole's duke she me forsook
which I take to he the original reading.
These words were composed by the late Dr. Austin,
physician at Edinburgh.—He had courted a lady,^
to whom he zms shortly to have been married: but
the Duke ofAthole having seen her, became so much
in love with her, that he made proposals of mar^
riage, which were accepted of, and she jilted the
Doctor.
* Jean, daughter of John Drummond, of Megginch, Esq,