lease to rest?
And notice what I now advise:
Inferiors ne'er too much despise,
For fortune may gie sic a turn,
To raise aboon ye what ye scorn:
For instance, now I spread my wing
In air, while you're a creeping thing!'_"

--ALLAN RAMSAY.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Punctuation has been normalised. Dialect, informal and variant
spellings remain as printed. Hyphenation discrepancies in the
illustration captions have been amended to match the main text.

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