It will be necessary to take notice, that our chief care has been to furnish out the following miscellany with those pieces, regard being first had to real merit, which have laid unknown and unobserved from their MANNER of publication; several of them having been printed by themselves, and so perished as it were for want of bulk, and others lost amid the rubbish of collections injudiciously made, and perhaps not easily to be met with. Nor will it be improper to mention, that in order to render our volume still more compleat, we have had the favour of some original poems, written by a late member of the university of Aberdeen, whose modesty would not permit us to prefix his name: one of which in this edition is printed with many improvements, from a corrected copy. And from these ingenious essays, the public may be enabled to form some judgment beforehand of a poem of a nobler and more important nature, which he is now preparing. Nor must we forget to return our public thanks to this gentleman, for the service he has been to us, not only in making this collection more excellent by his own contributions, but in selecting such pieces of others as were suitable to our design. It is hoped that the ancient Scottish poems (amongst which THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE, and HARDYKNUTE are more particularly distinguished) will make no disagreeable figure amongst those of modern date; and that they will produce the same effect here, as Mr. Pope observes a moderate use of old words may have in a poem; which, adds he, is like working old abbey-stones into a modern building, and which I have sometimes seen practised with good success. Upon the whole, as we have been favoured with the best assistance in compiling this volume, no further apology is necessary; and as the approbation of the public has been already secured to these poems separately, we hope they have no less reason to claim it, when thus published together. CONTENTS. Page The Thistle and the Rose, by W. Dunbar 1 Verses on the Death of Queen Caroline. By Mr. Shipley 10 The Genealogy of Christ, by Mr. Lowth 13 A Fragment, by Mr. Mallet 24 The Eagle and Robin Red-Breast, a Fable, by Archibald Scott, written before the Year 1600. 28 Ode to Fancy, by Mr. Joseph Warton 31 Ode to Evening, by the same 37 Ode to Evening, by Mr. Collins 39 Isis, an Elegy, by Mr. Mason of Cambridge 42 The Triumph of Isis, by Mr. Thomas Warton of Oxford 47 A Love-Elegy, by Mr. Hammond 47