The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Whose father, indeed, would not draw, man,
Into the same yoke.
Which served for a cloak,
To keep the estate 'twixt them twa, man.
Lord Rollo,29 not fear'd,
Kintore^'^ and his beard,
Pitsligo^^ and Ogilvie^^ a', man,
And brothers Balfours,
They stood the first stours ;
Clackmannan 2^ and Bmleigh^^ did claw, man.
But Cleppan^^ acted pretty,
And Strowan,^^ the witty,
A poet that pleases us a', man ;
For mine is but rhyme.
In respect of what's fine,
Or what he is able to draw, man.
For Huntly^'^ and Sinclair,^^
They baith play'd the tinkler.
With consciences black like a craw, man ;
Some Angus and Fife men,
They ran for their life, man,
And ne'er a Lot's wife there at a', man !
Then Lawrie, the traitor.
Who betray 'd his master.
His king, and his country, and a', man.
Pretending Mar might
Give order to fight
To the right of the army awa, man ;
29 Lord Rollo. so The Earl of Kintore.
31 Lord Pitsligo. 32 Lord Ogilvie, son of the Earl of Airly.
33 Bruce, Laird of Clackmannan—the husband, I believe, of the old lady
who knighted Robert Burns with the sword of Bruce, at Clackmannan
Tower.
34 Lord Burleigh. 35 Major William Clephane.
36 Alexander Robertson of Slruan, chief of the Robertsons.
37 Alexander, Marquis of Huntly, afterwards Duke of Gordon.
38 The Master of Sinclair.