Ye'll No Sell Your Hen on a Rainy Day

ALLAN RAMSAY was a Scottish poet born in Lanarkshire in 1686. He wrote poetry in Scots and English as well as working as a publisher, a librarian, and a wig maker. He collected the sayings of Scotland as A Collection of Scots Proverbs, first published in in the 18th century. This revised volume of proverbs has been selected and translated by Luath Press.

Without doubt Allan Ramsay is an unsung hero of Scottish poetry… It is fair to say without Ramsay there would be no Robert Burns. PROF. GERARD CARRUTHERS, University of GlasgowAllan Ramsay was not only a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a collector and editor of Scots songs; he was also a cultural innovator of the Enlightenment. PROF. MURRAY PITTOCK, University of Glasgow