First printed in 1800 in the Currie edition, this song is in praise of six of Mauchline's most attractive young women, who have caught the poet's eye. 'Miss Miller' is Helen Miller, sister of the ...

As in The Holy Fair, here Burns pokes fun at peasant manners and turns a wedding-scene into a brawl (making 'A Mauchline Wedding' fit into the brawl tradition, seen also in Sir John Suckling's ...