There's a youth in this city, it were a great pity That he from the lasses should wander awa'; For he's bonie an braw, weel-favor'd with a', An' his hair has a natural buckle an' a'. His coat is ...

This epistle was composed in response to Elizabeth Scott (1729 - 1789), an Edinburgh poetess who sent Robert Burns a verse epistle in admiration of his Kilmarnock edition, Poems, Chiefly in the ...