APPENDIX, (29) 



want of fkill in archery would have been loft or mifapplied, its w. Tyacr°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 intrinlic evidence arifing from the lan- 

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

 that period to which he has afligned it. 



At the end of the poem of Chriji^ s Kirk on the Green, is a. 

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

 worth as well as genius of our celebrated paftoral poet Allan 

 Ramsay, and contradicfts, from his own perfonal knowledge, 

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

 known paftoral drama, T'he Gentle Shepherd, 



Subjoined to the DilTertation and Poems, is an Eftay by Mr 

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

 bliftied in 1788) on the Scottijh mufic. This laft was very pro- 

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

 ne(5lion with the hiftory of the Prince, whofe poems it was the 

 chief purpofe of that volume to record and ilkiftrate ; 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 pafTage in the pe?ijieri diverji of Tassoni, 

 better known as the author of the celebi-ated mock-heroic la 

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

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

 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 tlie national mufic of-: 

 Scotland. 



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