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n, he Editors of tie Wiimingt@atdr'.

NJ, requesting at the same time that ! wouio
loo nv opinion upon piece OF Scotch poetry
.;nod therein. addressed to Tam Sha1afer
=. I have seldom seen such corruption OF
n.o,ch send YOU some Of the reflections OF my
mise upon the piece. As ! have been tod that
.,o .utheris man of talents in English verse,
,..,. nroner to state to him more particularly
lie errors, in hopes that he may perceive them
.l.,rly. and beware in future.
The little GLOSSARY attached TO Burns Works.
\, ,cr,. unfit To give person correct under
..ardi,p of the Scotch, as the words are not
cl,ssed into parts Of speech, but merely eX-
.,oss their meaning as he has applied them;
,o,ce this "Mford Bard" mistakes the tense,
-. time. of the VERBS the difference between
= none and not, &c. BY his piece itappears
flat the girl in whose car he saw the ANIMAL was
IL avn sweetheart; that she is shrcw, and yet,
~. hives only the "clcan and bonnie. In his
second stanza he says
..Tlen let me hear the last ava"
1o is SYNONYMOUS with at all. Then the line
eads
..rhen let me hear the last at ALL"
meaning
aThcn let inc hear no more al aN'.
The fourth stanza reads
.Ihae cheeld," instead of chiel or cheei, by
hssie fair,
Yr tlinna ken but hac MAR,
uut as to that munna Instead ofman ma, swear
But hers maun do;
Imcan the girl wi ear sac sair-
The waefu shreW,"
IN the fifth stanza are errors equally bad.
Ncist INSTEAD of niestl syne coost my glance
aapg."
This is inconsistent; nicst means next, sync
means some certain time past, since or next III
order, as drink first, sync be drunk, coost did
cast The English then is
next since did cast my glance along
Dit should be
Nest time cast my glance alang' Sc.
Gf the events are to come. In the sixth stanza,
Ne says
But We tell ye mon INSTEAD Of man ye mama,
Think ma,ln tyne"
Here tyne is misapplicd. lie calls it verb
1, Inct hut herr he ic WI
Think he never saw it so used by Scotch VIII
er, in either prose or verse: it is verb active,
exactly expressed by lose, l lose and tine arc
exactly the same. The past part lost IS tint,
a, in Burns Tam O Shantcr:
"'rill first ae caper syne anithcr
Tam tint his reason together
Inthc seventh stanza-" Nae, nae" for Ma, ma
nae signifies none of, as l hae nae gear. The
English manner of negation would justify th'
inc but the Scotch will not. The word Of de
.a is ma, as ma ma, lass, I'll no gaze there The
latter part Of the seventh verse do not under
.tand, therefore ! cannot say whether the mean
ng Il good or not. | would advise the authort'
cad the productions Of Scotch writers, until Ia
receives their ideas of the meaning Of words, anC
not ,ry in his glossary, to find Scotch word t.
slit his English meaning;--this think, is on
tause of his errors.
The following were my reflections upon frs
,ading the piece to which have alluded.
TO THE "MILFORD BARD"
0 man, o man! what do We mean
TO boast of wit and satire keen
Tor me, Tve scarce seen aught so mean,
In my life;
Asank bubble Eve never seen,
Of words at strife
That Wild bombastic, crazy chime
That which you think is so sublime;
lisnot Scotcll-it is not rhyme
Ills CHERISH harsh;
Who's heard aught like "think maun tyne"
So dowtf and warsh.
Aetak a vast % pains to tell
&c think 4 hantlc o. yourself,
And that your doxies love you well
And you love them,
The blacklist goose on a your fell
May say the same.
Nnd art thou man, so vainly carried
TO think the Scotch muse you inherit,
And that folk praise We for your merit,
And Tam envics yc;
N 3ay the best, yc thig and tear it,