[218] As illustrative of this point compare, Virgil, Eclogue viii, 27, 28, and Gay, Pastoral III, 59–62; Virgil, Eclogue i, 59–63, and Gay, Pastoral III, 67–72; Virgil, Eclogue v, 36–39, and Gay, Pastoral V, 83–87; Virgil, Eclogue v, 76–78, and Gay, Pastoral V, 153–58; Virgil, Eclogue iv, 1–3, and Gay, Pastoral VI, 1–3; Virgil, Eclogue vi, and Gay, Pastoral VI; Virgil, Eclogue viii, and Gay, Pastoral IV. [219] Pastoral I. [220] “Night Piece on Death;” “The Hermit.” [221] “Health.” [222] “The Flies.” [223] “The Hermit.” [224] “Anacreontic.” [225] “Anacreontic.” [226] “Health.” [227] Parnell, “Poetical Works,” p. 77. [228] Pattison died in 1727, and he was in college during the four preceding years. The records of his life are scanty, but he probably wrote this poem before 1723, when he left the region of his dear Ituna, that being the stream on whose banks he was accustomed to murmur out his verses. [229] See Ramsay, “Poems,” I, xxvii. [230] Cf. “Richy and Sandy,” l. 8; “Robert, Richy, and Sandy,” ll. 31–34; “Gentle Shepherd,” i, 1, 89; i, 1, 148; ii, 2, 17–40; ii, 3, 27–47; v, 1, 19–43. [231] Cf. “Gentle Shepherd,” i, 2, 190–93, 207; i, 2, 200–204; ii, 1, 76–86; ii, 2, Prologue; ii, 1, Prologue; iii, 3, 111–16; v, 2, Prologue. [232] Cf. “Gentle Shepherd,” i, 1, 205; i, 2, 1–4. [233] Cf. “Richy and Sandy,” ll. 49, 50; “Gentle Shepherd,” i, 1, 43, 44, 67–70, 156; i, 2, 131–37; song viii. [234] “Gentle Shepherd,” i, 2, 138–47; ii, 4, 43–66; iv, 2, 148–58. [235] In the copious notes to the 1815 edition of Pennecuik’s “Tweeddale” is a full account of the country about New-Hall, accompanied by quotations from Ramsay’s poem, to show the accuracy of his descriptions. [236] “Answer to the Foregoing” (to Somerville). In the poems addressed to Allan Ramsay on the publication of his works in 1721 we find significant critical approval based on Ramsay’s avoidance of tame Nature, and his turning from the authority of the schools. The simile of a garden recurs in a poem by “C. T.” He planted trees in equal rows and arranged flowers in a parterre, but found his labor in vain. The narrow scene became daily more distasteful to him, and finally he went back to the fields where “Nature wantoned in her prime.” Here he found space, variety, surprise, and was content. Ja. Arbuckle praises Ramsay for roaming over hill and dale and leaving “carpet-ground” to “tender-footed beasts,” and for choosing to subsist on his native stock while other poets pilfered fame by picking the locks of their predecessors.--“Poems of Allan Ramsay,” I, 4–7. [237] “The Gentle Shepherd,” ii, 4, 62. [238] _Ibid._, 50. [239] “The Gentle Shepherd,” ii, 4, 10. [240] “To Mr. William Starrat,” l. 46. [241] “The Gentle Shepherd,” iii, 3, 41. [242] _Ibid._, i, 1, 137. [243] _Ibid._, Prologue, i, 2. [244] _Ibid._, Prologue, ii, 3. [245] _Ibid._, iii, 3, 43. [246] “The Gentle Shepherd,” i, 2, 7. [247] “An Ode to the Ph--,” 1721, st. 1. [248] “Answer to the Foregoing.”