[65]Most of these details are taken from the "Life and Works of Burns," by R. Chambers, 1851, 4 vols.
[66]Ibid. I. 14.
[67]My great constituent elements are pride and passion.
[68]Extract from Burns's commonplace-book; Chambers's "Life," I. 79.
[69]Ibid. I. 231. Burns had a right to think so; when he arrived at night in an inn, the very servants woke their fellow-laborers to come and hear him talk.
[70]Ibid. II. 68.
[71]"Man was made to Mourn," a dirge.
[72]"First Epistle to Davie, a brother poet."
[73]"Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives."
[74]"The Creed of Poverty;" Chambers's "Life," IV. 86.