44 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM SMELLIE. 



lively of the first abilities and greatest strength 

 of mind, as well as one of the best hearts and 

 keenest wits that I have ever met with. When you 

 see him, as alas ! he too is smarting at the pinch 

 of distressful circumstances, aggravated by the 

 sneer of contumelious greatness ! a bit of my 

 cheese alone will not cure him ; but if you add a 

 tankard of brown stout, and superadd a magnum 

 of right Oporto, you will see his sorrows vanish 

 like the morning mist before the summer sun. I 

 ain, &c. 



" ROBERT BURNS." 



