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PREFACE.

poems. The Editor dismisses this little Volume from his hands with mingled pleasure and regret; pleasure, from the recollection of several agreeable hours spent in its arrangement, during the intervals of severer study; and regret at bidding adieu to the investigation of Scotish literary antiquities, a subject which he can never expect to resume.

Edinburgh, December 20. 1802.