Preface

edition of his poems ublished there in 1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of ellisland in dumfriesshire. his fame as poet had reciled the armours to the e, and having nularly married jean, he brought her to ellisland, and once more tried farming for three years. tinued ill-success, however, led him, in 1791, to abandon ellisland, and he moved to dumfries, where he had obtained a position in the excise. but he was now thhly disced; his work was mere drudgery; his tendency to take his relaxation in debauchery increased the weakness of a stitution early undermined; and he died at dumfries in his thirty-eighth year.

it is not necessary here to attempt to disentangle or explain away the numerous amours in which he was ehrough the greater part of his life. it is evident that burns was a man of extremely passioure and fond of viviality; and the misfortunes of his lot bined with his natural

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