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Updated: July 24, 2025

This volume contained, among other things, Ramsay's bold continuation of "Christ's Kirk on the Green," which the same biographer describes as "King James the First's ludicrous poem," in which the poet of the High Street skilfully turns the poet-monarch's rustic revel into a vulgar village debauch.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets