APPENDIX. (29) 



want of (kill in archery would have been lofl or mifappUed, its w.Tytkr°Efq; 

 irony no longer felt, its falutary end no more perceived. Be- 

 fides this argument from the general tenor of the poem, Mr 

 Tytler has adduced the intriniic evidence arilingfrom the lan- 

 guage of the piece, as clearly afcertaining its date to belong to 

 that period to which he has affigned it. 



At the end of the poem of Chrijf s Kirk on the Green, is a 

 note by Mr Tytler, in which he pays a juft tribute to the 

 wortli as well as genius of our celebrated palloral poet Allan 

 Ramsay, and contradicfls, from his own perfonal knowledge, 

 the abfurd ftory of Ramsay's not being the author of tiie well 

 known paftoral drama, 'the Gentle Shepherd. 



Subjoined to the DiflTertation and Poems, is an Effay by Mr 

 Tytler (firft annexed to Arnot's Hiftory of Edinburgh, pu- 

 blifhed in 1788) on the Scoltijh mufic. This laft was very pro- 

 perly included in the volume above mentioned, from its con- 

 nexion with the hiftory of the Prince, whofe poems it was the 

 chief purpofe of that volume to record and illuftrate ; the fy- 

 ftem maintained by Mr Tytler in this eflay on the Scottifh 

 mufic, being, that the ftyle of the ancient melodies of this coun- 

 try was firft introduced by King James the Firft. This was 

 chiefly founded on a paflage in the penfieri diverfi of Tassoni, 

 better known as the author of the celebrated mock-heroic la 

 fecchia rapita, who, mentioning the mufical talents of this Mo- 

 narch, afcribes to him the " invention of a new kind of mufic, 

 plaintive and melancholy," which Mr Tytler,, in this eflay,, 

 fuppofes was the original of thofe beautiful and pathetic airS' 

 which are known and diftinguiflied as tl:ie national mufic of 

 Scotland. 



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