Excerpt from Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History

In his preface to The Evergreen, Allan Ramsay explains that he had intended to have given ' an account of the Authors of the following Collection, ' but had 'delayed the Design' for the sufficient reason that he had not been 'furnished with such distinct Information as could be wished for that End at present', and he virtually had to content himself with 'marking the Names of the Authors before and after their poems.'

Such was the total oblivion which, in the course of a few short generations, had engulfed the old 'makaris' and all their works! Already had they became

'subject all To envious and calumniating time.'

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