[50] Ritson's Hist. Essay on Scotish Song, p. lxiii.
[51] Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, vol. i. p. 296.
[52] Campbell's British Poetry, vol. v. pp. 344-346.
[53] A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, by L. Hunt, p. 106. London, 1848.
[54] Lives of Eminent Scotsmen. London, 1821.
[55] We are indebted for this anecdote to the venerable George Thomson, Esq., the correspondent of Burns and publisher of his finest songs, now living and in the 93d year of his age, who had it from—Macgowan, Esq., a gentleman formerly well known in this city, as having been told him by Lady Strange herself.
[Ramsay's Poems. Ed. 1850
[56] "This is the same dignified lady, to whom, at the age of eighty-five, Johnson, and Boswell, offered their homage; whose powers of pleasing continued so resplendent as to charm the fastidious sage into a declaration that, in visiting such a woman, he had spent his day well. This celebrated patroness of poets was the accomplished daughter of the noble house of Kennedy, who having married, in 1708, Alexander the Earl of Eglinton, by whom she had three sons, two of whom succeeded to the earldom, and seven daughters who married into honourable families, died on the 18th of March, 1780, at the patriarchal age of ninety-one."—Geo. Chalmers' Life of Ramsay, page xxxiv., edition of 1800.
[57] To weaker sight, set these, &c.
Having done me the honour of turning some of my pastoral poems into English, justly and elegantly.
[58] Frae his pen.
His valuable Naval History.]
[59] In some editions, Madge.