. The complete poetical and prose works of Robert Burns:. till tune your lyre. TO JAMES ARMOUR. 447 NO. CCCLXXXIl. TO JAMES GRACIE, Esq. Brow, Wednesday morning,July ]6th, 1796. AIy Di:ar Sir—It would be donghipfh injustice to this place not to ackuow-lei^e that my rheumatism has derived greatbenefits from it already; but, alas! myloss of appetite still continues. I shall notneed your kind offer this week (226), and I\ ^turn to town the beginning of next week,it not being a tide week. I am detaining aman io n buruing hurry. So, God blessyou ! NO. CCCLXXXIII. TO JAMES ARMOUR (227), MASON,
. The complete poetical and prose works of Robert Burns:. till tune your lyre. TO JAMES ARMOUR. 447 NO. CCCLXXXIl. TO JAMES GRACIE, Esq. Brow, Wednesday morning,July ]6th, 1796. AIy Di:ar Sir—It would be donghipfh injustice to this place not to ackuow-lei^e that my rheumatism has derived greatbenefits from it already; but, alas! myloss of appetite still continues. I shall notneed your kind offer this week (226), and I\ ^turn to town the beginning of next week,it not being a tide week. I am detaining aman io n buruing hurry. So, God blessyou ! NO. CCCLXXXIII. TO JAMES ARMOUR (227), MASON, MAUCHLINE. Dumfries, July, 18th, 1796. My Dear Sir—Do, for Heavens sake,send Mrs. .\rmour here immediately. Mywife is hourly expecting to be put to bedGood God! what a situation for her to bein, poor girl, without a friend ! I returnedfrom sea-bathing quarters to-day, and mymedical friends would ahnost persnaile methat I am better, but I think and feel thaimy strength is so gone, that the disorde:will prove fatal to me. Your son-in-law,R. B. (). I^ote TX) |i}>i UiE. IOEMS, CORKESPONDENCE, &c_ &«,OP BURNS ]MtB ta tjie life nf Snrns, Page 4, Note 1.—^To account for theco-existence of a taste for dancing, music,and song, with the austere religious feehngsabove descril)ed, we must bear in mind thatthe latter are not of such long standin;^,having only existed in great force since thetime of the civil wars. It is also to be observed,that those tastes and those feelings did notalways possess the same minds. Throughoutthe most rigid times, the young formed aparty whom the promptings of nature com-pelled to favour mirthful recreation and theproductions of the muse, all preachingsfrom the old notwithstanding. Then theEpiscopalian or Jacobite party, formed alarge and important exception from thegeneral spirit of the nation, being declaredpatrons of not only dancing and song, butcf theatricals. Page 4, Note 2.—Till a recent period,andprevious to the reign of George I., the
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