with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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Song, beginning, 'TheDeil cam fiddling thro* the Town/
Inserted in the Reliques of Burns.
Holy Willie's Praj/er.—Suppressed by Dr. Currie, and
by the Editor of the Reliques, for its open and
daring profanity, and the frequent and familiar
introduction of the sacred name of the Deity.
The Inventori/.— Dr. Currie pubhshed this in his edi-
tion, but he had the good sense and dehcacy to
suppress the objectionable passages : they are here
restored; and that the grossness might be still
more palpable, they are conspicuously printed,
for the benefit of the rising generation, in italics.
An Address to a bastard Child.—Rejected by Dr. Currie
for its indelicacy.
Elegj/ on the Year 17SS.—Printed in the Reliques.
Verses addressed to John Rankin, beginning, ' Ae day as
death that grusorne carl,' he. Inserted in the
Reliques.
Verses addressed to the above Johnie Rankin, on his writ-
ing to the Poet ' that a girl in the part of the coun-
try in which he lived was with child by him /'
With several other pieces of this cast, equally ' bril-
liant* and edifying ; and some tributary verses by
various hands.