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FOOTNOTES:

[427-2] This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott has mentioned that the only time he saw Burns this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found.--LOCKHART: _Life of Scott, vol. i. chap. iv._

ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. 1735-1787.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

_Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1._

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he.

_Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2._

And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,-- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.[427-3]

_Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2._

Young fellows will be young fellows.

_Love in a Village. Act ii. Sc. 2._

Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

_The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1._

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[427-3] If naebody care for me, I 'll care for naebody.

BURNS: _I hae a Wife o' my Ain._

JAMES BEATTIE. 1735-1803.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

_The Minstrel. Book i . Stanza 1._

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

_The Minstrel. Book i . Stanza 11._

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

_The Minstrel.