TO

SIR WILLIAM FORBES,

OF PITSLIGO, BARONET,

AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER,

AND AS AN APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE MOST

VALUED FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR,

THIS EDITION

OF THE

POETICAL WORKS OF DR BEATTIE,

IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE PUBLISHERS.

Pygmæo-gerano-machia : The Battle of the Pigmies

Epitaph being Part of an Inscription for a Monu-

ment, to be erected by a Gentleman to the Memory

of his Lady

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To the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in

a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c.

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