A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

Wigton's coming, Nithsdale's coming,
Carnwarth's coming, Kenmiire's coming,
Derwentwater * and Foster's t coming,
Withrington J arid Nairn's § coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Blyth Cowhill and a's coming.
The Laird of M'Intosh is coming,
M'^Crabie and M'^Donald's coming.
The M'Kenzies and M'Phersons' comingi
A' the wild M'^Craws' coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Donald Gun and a's coming.
Tliey gloom, they glowr, they look sae big.
At ilka stroke they'll fell a Whig :
They'll fright the fuds of the Pockpuds, [j
For mony a buttock bare's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Jock and Tarn and a's coming.
* Earl of Derwentwater, a nobleman universally esteemed.
He was taken prisoner at Preston, tried, and beheaded on
Tower-hill, along with Viscount Kenmure.
f Thomas Forster, junior of Etherston, Member of Parliament
for Northumberland, was commander of the rebel Eng-
lish army. He was taken prisoner at Preston, but made liis
escape to the continent.
1^ The Earl of Widdrington.
§ The Lord Nairn, brother to the Duke of Athole. He
was also taken prisoner at Preston, tried, and condemned, but
afterwards liberated by virtue of the act of indemnity in 1717.
[| A name of derision given to the English, from th©ir
attachment to the bag-pudding.