"Still heavy, at the last my Nose / I prim'd with an inspiring Dose, / Then did the Ideas dance, (dear safe us!) / As they'd been daft."
An Epistle to Mr. James Arbuckle of Belfast, A. M. [from Poems]
Poem dated January 1719. At least 17 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1776, 1780, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems. By Allan Ramsay.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for the author at the Mercury, opposite to Niddryâ€™s-Wynd, 1720). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T154560">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Found also, in ECCO, in <u>Miscellaneous Works of that Celebrated Scotch Poet. Allan Ramsay</u> (1724), <u>Poems by Allan Ramsay</u> (1720, 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).