with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

Youll meet displeasure every where
Then do as I have done,
Ee'n tune your pipe and plea^ yourselves
With John o' Badenyon.
FOR A* THAT, AND a' THAT.
This song is mine, all except the chorus.^
* This is part of the " Bard's Song," in the " Jolly Beggars,"
^ Cantata, which is printed at the end of this volume.
It is observed of Gay that he had long formed the idea of
writing a Newgate Pastoral, and that the conception, when
matured, produced the Beggars' Opera, In the "Jolly
Beggars" of Burns the reader will see Gay's first sketch com-
pletely illustrated ; but here the design and the execution are
equally original, and perhaps no poem of our Bard more abounds
in those genuine and lively strokes of character which display
the hand of a master, and which so happily realize the maxim
of Horace
—
Mt pictura poesis.—Ed.
;