"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
The Gentle Shepherd, A Pastoral Comedy
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See <u>The Gentle Shepherd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy. By Allan Ramsay.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, for the author, and by Mr. Thomas Longman, and Mr. James McEwin, London, and by Mr. Alexander Carmichael in Glasgow, 1725).<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).