"Then Hymen's sacred Bonds shall chain / My Heart to her fair Bosom, / There, while my Being does remain, / My Love more fresh shall blossom."
The Happy Lover's Reflections
At least 51 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1718, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1729, 1731, 1735, 1736, 1745, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1768, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Scots Songs. By A. Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author at the Mercury, opposite to Nidderte's-Wynd, 1718).<br>
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See also <u>Poems by Allan Ramsay</u> (Edinburgh: Thomas Ruddiman, 1721). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114301243&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Found in ECCO in <u>Scots Songs. By A. Ramsay</u> (1718), <u>The Tea-Table Miscellany</u> (1724) <u>The Morning Interview, An Heroi-Comical Poem</u> (1731), and <u>Scottish Songs (1794). See also <u>Poems by Allan Ramsay</u> (1721, 1723, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794)<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Allan Ramsay</u>, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).