with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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For Campbell rade, but Myrie* staid,
And sair he paid the kain,f man
Fell skelps he got, was war than shot
Frae the sharp-edg'd claymore, man;
Frae many a spout came running out
His reeking-het red gore, man.
But Gard'nerJ brave did still behave
Like to a hero bright^ man
His courage true, like him were few,
That still despised flight, man ;
* Mr. Myrie was a student of physic, from Jamaica; he en-
tered as a volunteer in Cope's army, and was miserably mangled
by the broad sword.
t i. e. He suffered severely in the cause.
X James Gardiner, colonel of a regiment of horse. This gen-
tleman's conduct, however celebrated, does not seem to have
proceeded so much from the generous ardour of a noble and he-
roic mind, as from a spirit of religious enthusiasm, and a bigoted
reliance on the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination, which
rendered it a matter of perfect indifference whether he left the
field or remained in it. Being deserted by his troop, he was
killed by a Highlander, with a Lochaber axe.
Colonel Gardiner having, when a gay young man, at Paris,
made an assignation with a lady, was, as he pretended, not
only deterred from keeping his appointment, but thoroughly re-
claimed from all such thoughts in future, by an apparition. See
his Life by Doddridge.