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They say my talent is satire; if it be so, it is a fruitful
age, and there is an extraordinary crop to gather. But a
single hand is insufficient for such a harvest : they have
sown the dragon's teeth themselves, and it is but just they
should reap each other in Lampoons. DRYDEN.
PREFATORY NOTICE.
WHEN the First Book of Pasquils was preparing for the press, it
was not supposed that materials could have been provided to
have made a Second ; but by the kindness of various individuals
who take an interest in these matters, and by the unexpected
discovery of several manuscripts, not only was the Editor so
successful as to collect a second Book, but he has been enabled
to produce a third one, fully as interesting as either of its pre-
decessors.
It is to Sir James Balfour that the Reader is indebted for the
more valuable portion of the present volume. These Pasquils
have now, for the first time, been printed from the original
manuscripts. Unfortunately, from the paleness of the ink, it
has by no means been an easy matter to decipher the writing,
and the difficulty thus occasioned has been increased by the very
unusual mode of spelling which this learned person had thought
proper to adopt. Owing to these circumstances, a few lines in.
the Latin Pasquil against the Bishops, are not very intelligible.
It has been judged proper, however, to present throughout, the
spelling as given in the original manuscripts. A few palpable
mistakes only have been corrected.
Pointed and virulent as most of the satires are, it does not
appear that judicial steps were taken against any of the authors,
a2
iv PREFATORY NOTICE-
This was probably owing to the turbulent state of the country
during the latter part of the reign of King Charles the First.
Under his predecessor, the libellers would not have been treated
with so much indifference, as King James was not disposed to
tolerate satires, either against his country, himself, or his minis-
ters. Of this the fate of Mr Thomas Ross, and of Stercovius a
Pole, is pretty strong proof, as both of these parties suffered death
for having published pasquils reflecting upon the Scotch. The
trial of Ross has been noticed by Arnot, but the fate of Sterco-
vius appears to have been entirely overlooked, although one of the
most atrocious acts of cruelty and injustice ever perpetrated un-
der colour of law.
It seems that Stercovius had been induced to visit Scotland,
where lie met with any thing but a kind reception. His retain-
ing the costume of his country, exposed him to the derision of
the Scottish youth, as we learn from a rare poem, entitled a
" Counter buff to Lysimachus Nicanor, " where it is stated that
" Hither he came clade all in antique sort,
" Where seen in streets, the subject of a sport
" He soone became to childish gazers, who
" With skriechs and clamours hiss him to and fro,
Till forced he was with shame and speed to pack him,
" And to his feet and loathsome cabin take him. "
As might be expected, on returning home, he penned and
published <e A Legend of Reproaches " against the nation
by which he had been insulted. The fact of publication hav-
ing come to the ears of King James, he was at great pains to
procure the punishment of the author, and by the means of Mr
Patrick Gordon, * at that time in Poland, the unfortunate Sterco-
* Probably the author of the " History of the valiant Bruce, " writ-
ten in heroic verse, and printed at Dort 1615. 4to.
PREFATORY NOTICE. V
vius was actually put to death. The libel or pasquil seems to
have been carefully suppressed. This vindictive act seems to
have cost the King the large sum of six hundred pounds Ster-
ling ; but in what way it was expended is not easy to imagine,
unless bribery was resorted to in order to accomplish the desired
object.
This sum his Majesty very ingeniously tried to impose upon
the Royal Burghs of Scotland ; and there is preserved in the Char-
ter-chest of the City of Edinburgh, an extract of a decreet of
the Lords of the Secret Council, dismissing the claim, their Lord-
ships having adopted the views urged by the Burghs, that they " can
" nawyse be Judges competent to cognosce on this caus, in respect
< the same is foundit upoun the payment of ane soume of money,
" and not upoun ane fyne for ony ryot comitit be thame, and
" thairfore sould be remitit to the Judge-ordiner ; and farder,
" it was alledgeit be the saidis Comissionaris, that the said ac-
" tioun was foundit upoun ane impositioun upon the burrowis
" of this realme, being ane of the three estates of this kingdome,
" without the consent of the saidis estatis, qlk could nawyse be
" be done bot be ane generall conventioun of the same, or ane
" parliament, and thairfore that the saidis Lords of Secrite Conn-
" saill sould be nawyse Judges competent in this mater. " Ac-
cordingly, their Lordships '< findis and declairis that they arena-
" wyse Judges in the said caus, and thairfore have remittit and
" remittes the decisions thairof to the Judge competent. " The
Editor has not been able to ascertain whether any other steps
were taken by the King to make this absurd claim effectual.
Some matter illustrative of the cases of Ross and Stercovius
is annexed. Every attempt to procure the two libels has failed.
PREFATORY NOTICE.
EXTRACT FROM THE JUSTICIARY RECORD, RELATIVE
TO THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR
THOMAS ROSS.
1. DITTAY against Mr Thomas Raise.
Aug. 20. 1618.
MR THOMAS ROISE, sone to vmqll Jolinnc Roise of Craigie :
Ye are indytit and accuset, forsamekill as, albeit it be expresslie
provydit, statute and ordanit, be dyuerse Actis of Parliament,
alsweill maid by his Maiestie as be his hienes progenitouris, of
worthie memorie ; speciallie, be the 43 Act of the second parlia-
ment of King James the First, intitulat that liesingmakeris tynes
thair lyfe and guidis : And sicklyk, be ane Act maid be King
James the Secuud, ye 100 Act contenit in the auld prentit Actis
of Parliament the foresaid Act is ratifeit in all pointis and ordanit
to be put in execution in all tyme cuming : be the whilk, it is
statute that leasing makeris sail tyrie lyfe and guidis to the King,
and be at his will : As lykewayis be the 134 Act of the aught
Parliament, haldin be his Maiestie our darrest Souerane him selff
and his hienes Estaittes in the moneth of Maij 1584 ; and in the
tent Parliament, haldin also be his Maiestie and his Estaitis, the
tent of December 1585, ntiiculo primo, intitulat Authoris of
PREFATORY NOTICE. Vll
sclanderous speiches or writtis sal be pwneischet to the deathe,
Quhilkis Actis ar ratifeit and approven in his Maiesteis fourtene
Parliament, haldin the aught of Junij 1594 : And be dyuerse
vthers Actis, alsweill maid be his Maiesteis selff, as his Maiesteis
progenitouris of renowned memorie, that all liesing-makeris and
telleris of thame, quhilk may ingender discord betwix the Kings
Maiestie and his people, quhair euir thay may be gottin, sail be
challengit be thame that power hes, and tyne thair lyfe and
guidis to the King : and that nane of his subjects of quhatsum-
euir functioun, degrie or qualitie sail presume or tak vpone
hand, privallie or publictlie, in sermones, declamatiounes, or fa-
miliar conferences, to vtter ony fals sklanderous, or vntrew
speiches, to the disdayne, reproche, or contempe of his Maieste,
his Counsall and proceidingis, or to the dishonour, hurt, or pre-
iudice of his hienes, his parentis, or progenitouris, or to meddle
in the affairis of his hieness and his estait, steiring up his hieness
subjectis to mislyking, seditioun or vnquyetnes ; and that nane
presume or tak vpon hand publictlie to declame, or privately to
speik or wryte ony purpois of reproche or sklander of his maiesteis
persone, estait, or governament, quhairby ony mislyking may be
movet aganis his hienes and his nobilitie and loveing subjectis,
in tyme cuming, vnder the pane of death, to be inflictit vpone
thame with all rigour : As the saidis Actis of Parliament in thamp
selffis proportis : Nochtwithstanding quhairof, it is of verritie, thajt'
ye the said Mr Thomas, in the moneth of Julij last bypast, con-
trair to the tennour of the saidis Actis of Parliament, hes falslie,
sklanderuslie,calumniouslie, dispytefullie, and devillischlie, with-
in the toun of Oxfurd in Ingland, forget, fenzeit, and blasphem-
ouslie vtterit, and be writt exposet publictlie to be red and de-
fenditbeyow, (as ye affirme by your devellische writ,) within the
Vniuersities of Oxfurd, Cambridge, Pareis, and vtheris places
m entionet in that villanous, infamous, and devJIMsshe writt : alj.
yjii PREFATORY NOTICE.
written with your awin hand in Latine, an propositioun or These,
contening ten several abominable articles, and confirming the
samyn that all Scottismen aught tobechote furth of the court of
Ingland (excepting his gracious Maiestie, his sone, and ane verrie
few vtheris), and that the Inglischmen ar michtlie blind sytet
and dissauit (althocht quik sichtit vtherwayis) that thai sould
suffer sic ane vnprofitable and pernitious multitude, and filthie
offscoureings of people, 1o radge and dominire within thair
boundis and intrallis : To the quhilk propositioun, ye haiff sett doun
and subjoint ten seuerale fals reasones, leasings, and vntreuthis,
for conferencing your deuellische propositioune. [Quhilkis
ten Reasones ar repeitit in this place as ane part of zour Dittay,
bot purpoislie omittit and left out hereof, as nocht worthie to re-
mane in ane Register, to offend the caris or eyis of the Pos-
teritie. 1 ] The quhilk blasphemous iniurious, sklanderous, and
devillische propositioune, and ten reasones, as ye terme thame,
subjoynet be yow thairto for confirm atioun thairof, all written
with your awin band, ar fals and manifest leasingis and vn-
trouthis, and war affixt be yow (maist impudentlie as ane Hear
and defamear of zour countrie and natioun, nocht worthie to haif
inioyit the naturall air thairof) vpon the Marie- Kirk-dur of the
said Vniyersitie of Oxford, vpone ane Tursday, being ane preich-
ing day in the said moneth of Julij last, as the people war dis-
solueing and skailling fra the sermone, and as Doctor Godwene
Vice Chancellour of the Vniversitie of Oxfurd, was cuming out
of the Kirk ; to the intent the samyn mycht be publictlie red and
dispersit amangist his Maiesteis subjectis of Ingland ; of plane
purpois and intentioun thairby, to haif steirit thame vp to the
1 (Marked on the margin of the Record) Thir Thesis with the
augmentis or teasoncs subionet yairto, are gevin vp agane to my Lord
Advocat. t
PREFATORY NOTICE. IX
crewall, barbarous, and vnmerciefull murdering, massacreing,
and assasine of the haill Scottis people, alsweill noblemen and
counsalouris, as vtheris of the Scottis natioune quhatsumeuir, his
Maiesteis guid subjectis and servandis, attendants vpone and a-
bout his Maiesteis Royall persone in Court ; quhilk could nocht
haif been accomplischet without the extreme danger and perrell
of his Maiesteis sacreid persone, his Gracious Querie, and of the
Princes Hienes. In the doing quhairof, ye haif forget, maid,
and written unnumerable leasingis, false, sclanderous, and vn-
trew speiches and wntingis, quhilk micht haif ingenderit discord
betwix his Maiestie and his guid subjectis, to the disdane, re-
proach, and contempt of his Maistie, and his noble progenitouris
and thair proceidings, and of your native countrie, nocht worthie
to haif the name of ane borne subject therein : And thairby has
medlit with his Hienes affairis, estait, and governament, maist
falslie, barbaruslie, and vnaturallie ; contravening thairthrow (ye
being ane Scottisman, albeit unworthie) the tenour of the laws
and Actis of Parliament thairof, and incurring deservetlie the
paines and pwneischment above written, mentionet thairentill ;
quhilk aught and sould, in maist exemplarie manner, be inflictit
vpone yow with all rigour, to the tcrrour and example of vtheris
to attempt the Jyk. Quhilk is mair nor nottour, and ye can
nocht deny.
2. VERDICT.
THE ASSYSE, being ryplie and at length advyset thairwith
togidder with the villanous and infamous Pasqueill or Thesis,
and damnable appendices subioynet thairto ; his judiciall con-
fessioun and acknowlegeing thairof, and becuming in his Ma-
I PREFATORY NOTICE.
iesteis will for the samyn, as altogidder giltie and culpable
thairof ; his subscryuit Depositions producet be our souerane
Lordis Advocat, for cleiring and instructing of the said Dittay :
togidder with the seueral Actis of Parliament, quhairvpone the
said Dittay is feundit : Thay all in ane voce, be the Repoirt
and Declaratioun of the said Johnne Levingstoune, 1 Chancellour,
fund, pronouncet, and declarit the said Mr Thomas to be giltie,
culpable, and convict of the devillische forgeing and exposeing
be writt of the said villanous and false Theses, and false and dam-
nable appendices subioynet thairto ; and affixing the samyn (they
being manifest leyes and vntreuthis) vpone the said kirk dur, in
form and manner specifeit in his Dittay ; and of the samyn dit->
tay and hail crymis contenit thairintill ; and of contravening thair
throw, the tennour of the saidis Actis of Parliament : Quhairby
he hes incurrit and fallen vnder the danger, and within the coin-
pas of the panes and pwneischment mentionet thairintill justlie
mereitit by him.
The Justice, in regaird of his convictioun, Ordainit him to be
tane back to waird, and to be keepit irnes, quhill his Maiestie be
acquentit with his convictioune, and quhat examplarie pwneisch-
ment sail be execute vpone him for his offence.
3. SENTENCE.
Sept 10. 1618. THE JUSTICE, conforme to ane Warrand and direc-
tioune of his Maiestie, direct to my Lord of Byning, his Maiesteis
Secretar, be the mouth of Johnne Dow, Dempster of Court,
Ordanit the said Mr Thomas to be tane to the Mercat Croce of
Eclinr. and thair, vpone ane scaffold, first his right hand to be
struckin aff, and thairafter his heid to be strukin frome his body ?
1 John Levingstoun of Hayneing.
PREFATORY NOTICE. XI
and his held to be thairafter affixt and set vpone ane irne prick,
vpone the Nether- Boll- Port; and his said richt hand to be also
affixt vpone the Wast Poirt of the said Burgh of Edinr. and his
haill guidis and geir, &c. (gif he ony hes) to be escheit to his
Maiesteis vse, as convict and culpable of the said haynous cryme.
THE above curious particulars relative to Mr Thomas Ross,
were obligingly communicated to the Editor, by his friend Mr
Pitcairn, who transmitted him the MS. of that part of his forth-
coming Collection of Criminal Trials. To that highly interest-
ing work the Editor refers, for the arguments and proceedings
at the Trial, it being deemed unnecessary to insert them in this
place, when they are so soon to be laid before the Public,
II.
EXTRACT FROM " A COUNTERBUFFE to LYSIMACHUS,
JUNIOR, CALLING HIMSELF A JESUITE, " RELA-
TIVE TO MR THOMAS ROSSE AND
STERCOVIUS. x
Then false Lysimachus thou runnigate
That seems to pry into the soule of state,
That personates a subtile Jesuite,
And yet art known a homebred parasite,
1 From a copy in the possession of David Laing, Esq. 4to.
1640. pp. 16.
PREFATORY NOTICE.
That hath belcht forth a raposdie of lies,
And 'gainst thy countrey false coyned calumnies,
Thou by our statutes hast deserved to die
An ignominious death for such a lie,
As may breed discord 'twixt the King and State
Is death ; here many laws I may repeat,
And practicks too, but these are all so clear
As need no glossing ; only I will here
Touch, one for all : A Scot of ancient race,
A schollar too, as thou art, lived a space
In England's court, and for some privat hate,
A pasquill did against his country wreat,
As thou has done in fouler sort, more full
Of vil'd aspersions, from thy phrantick skull.
Well, then, King James of lasting memorie,
Who could not brook that any calumnie
Should be asperst upon his native land,
After some tryall there, he gave command
The Lybeller should home go, and sustaine
Of doome unpartial laws th' unpitied paine.
And here being tryed, judged, and adjudged, they fand
That he should lose his head, and faultie hand,
Which straight was done in public view ; and so
I thinke the matter with thyself will go.
For we do sure expect our Soveraigne
Will send thee home, that here thou may'st sustaine
Due punishment : But since that thy offence
Is worse nor his, the judges may dispence
With headings blow, and make thee climb the top
Of some curst tree, come down into a rope.
PREFATORY NOTICE. Xlll
Nor shall this one jest more in silence rote,
Which carelesse I, had now almost forgot,
Of a Polonian swaine, more curious
Nor wise, or learn'd, called Stercovius.
Hither he came, clade all in antique sort,
Where seen in streets, the subject of a sport
He soone became to childish gazers, who
With skriechs and clamours hiss him to and fro,
Till forc'd he was with shame and speed to pack him,
And to his feet and loathsome cabin take him.
Where in a furious and chollerick mood,
He nothing breathed but fire, revenge and blood ;
And fondly swore, our nations overthrow
He should adventure, with a sudden blow
Of his both pregnant and pernicious pen,
Like to a fierce and fearfull powder traine.
Thus fraught with furie, home to Pole he goes
To wreck his splen on his imagin'd foes.
And there his pen he loos' d, and with more spite
Nor hell had taught him thoughts, he did indite
A legend of reproaches, stuf 't with lies,
Was bold to print and vent those calumnies
Against the Scots, their manners and their fame
Of purpose to obscure their splendide name
In all that Esterne clyme, and tract of ground,
Where squadrons of our nation did abound ;
Whence some choice men of ours, did take in hand
To supplicat the Princes of that land
Their wrong for to redresse, so with great paine,
Great search, and length of time, their point they gaine,
PREFATORY NOTICE.
For all vaste Teutons states, the Spruch, the Dan
Dispatch, and arme with power some trustie man
Stercovtus to pursue in any ground,
Take and arraigne him where he may be found,
Which is with great turmoil and travell done ;
Yet things well acted are performed soone.
For this she Fox, hunted from hole to hole
At length is catch't, and unresolv'd did thole
His head, divorce, which from his body fell
Low to the ground, his soul I cannot tell
Which way it went, for most unworthie I
That should into th' Eternal's secrets pry.
Now since by law of nations, forraigne princes
Have granted patents throughout their provinces
A slanderer thus to take and apprehend.
What shall our Soveraigne do ? when it he's known
How falsely thou hast lyed, against thine own.
PASQUILS, &c.
i.
Cmttnc
1638.
Athens Andreas est, Stultus Glasgua, Brechin
Moechus, Edinensis Saccus Auaritise est.
Gallua papista est, Diues Caledonius auri
Aulicus est Rossen : Lismoriensis sedax.
Pauper Aberdonius, Morrauus vafer, ebrise satis
Dumblanen, fraudem dira Sodora ferax
Arcum Orcus tractat, Cathaneus pharma, Christi
(Proh pudor) his sacrum prostituisse gregem.
Atheus Andreas tremit et mens conscia rupti
Foederis vltorem non cupit esse deum.
Glasgua stultesscit cerebri nutritius humor
Fluxit, et huic barba grauis est capitis leue.
Moechatur Brechin sponsi contemptor Jesu,
Seruet legittimi quomodo jura thori
Parcus Eden et auarus auet terrena ; nee vlla est
Turgidula Christum prendere cura manu
A
2 PASQUILS, &c.
Gallua papanus quare est ? Immite furentis
Ingenium Recto non petit astra pede.
Cur diues Caledon : fauet huic nam plutus amico
Post haLito coluit quod sua regna Joue.
Aulicus est Rosseu : pater illi et Regia coeli
Sordet, honor, comites, principis aula placet.
Hie patre plebeio, furiosa matre, catellus
Prodiit, et fulmen fronte minasque gerit.
Cur gula tarn Argadio cordi est, quin quamlibet offam
Vir pius et simplex autumat esse deum
Vexat Aberdonium paupertas, quasque parabat
Divitias animse pro capione volant.
Cur Moravius vafer est, putat ipsum demona tectius
Vincere, et incautes caleditate viros.
Ebibis et Laticem Lambis Dumblane, Gehennse
Nee memor addiscis hie tolerare sitim.
Insula quod gignat fraudes, nihil ipse moretur
Infamis vitium est Muneris atque soli
Demon erat christi, ex duodenis vnus, et omnis,
Militat haec stygio turba scelesta deo
Arcum Orcus tractat ; Recte collimat, at illi
Neruus amor, christus mseta, sagitta fides
Corporis atque Animse curas Cathanese salutem
I'ru-sulis et medii munera soleis obis.
This pasquill one ye Scotts Bishopes wes written by Ja : Cleye,
scholcmastcr of Dun die, in Appryle 1638.
PASQUILS, &c,
II.
tfc*
This and the preceding from Balfour's MSS.
St Andreus * is an Athiest, and Glasgow a is ane gouke,
A Vincher Brechin, 3 Edinburgh 4 of auarice a pocke.
To popery prone is 5 Galloway, Dunkeld 6 is rich in
thesaure,
1 Spottiswoode, he was translated from Glasgow in 1615, and
made Lord Chancellor in 163*. He died in 1639.
2 Patrick Lindsay. Translated from Ross 1633. Deprived and
excommunicated in 1638. He died at Newcastle in^!64<l.
3 Walter Whitworth, Subdean of Glasgow, and Rector of Mof-
fat. He was deprived in 1638 by the Assembly, and died in 1643.
4 David Lyndsay, deprived in 1638.
5 Thomas Sydserf, translated from Brechin ; he was deprived
and excommunicated in 1638 by the Assembly of Glasgow. He
was the only Scots Bishop that survived the Restoration. He was
made, upon the re-establishing of Episcopacy, Bishop of Orkney,
and died at Edinburgh in 1663. His body lay in state in St Giles*
Church ; and a funeral sermon was preached on the occasion of his
death by Mr William Annan, the husband of Ann Murray, of
whom, see Pasquils, Vol. II. p. 57.
6 Alexander Lindsay, Parson of St Mados. He abjured
Episcopacy, submitted to the Presbyterian party, and accepted
his former Church of St Mados in 1638.
A 2
4, PASQUILS, &c.
A courtier Rosse : 7 but glutton lyke 8 Argyle eats out of
measure ;
Dround Aberdein 9 in pouertie, vagge Murrayes 10 sub-
tile vitt,
Dumblaine l L ye criple, loues ye Coupe, " Jylles for all
subject fitt.
Skill'd Orknay l s is in archerie, as * 4 Caithness is in
O quhat a shame Christ's flocke to trust, to such vnfaith-
ful doges.
St Andreus athiest quakes and shakes, and villanouslie
o'rgrouen,
With hynous sins doth visch ther wer no God one him to
skouin ;
* John Maxwell, deprived in 1638. In 1640 he was made
Bishop of Killala in Ireland, and was translated to the Archbishop-
rick of Tuam in 1645, but died suddenly in 1646.
8 James Fairly deprived in 1638, and became Presbyterian
minister of Laswade.
9 Adam Ballenden, translated from Dumblane, deprived in
1638, and died in England soon after.
* John Guthry, deprived in 1638.
1 1 James Wedderburne, deprived in 1638 ; died the ensuing
year.
1 2 Niel Campbell, Parson of Glastrey, deprived in 1638.
l * George Graham, of whom see afterwards.
1 4 John Abernethy, Parson of Jedburgh,
PASQUILS, &c. 5
Glasgow thy braine is daft and dray, for mother moyster
flitts
Into thy chin and makes thy beird more vaighty then thy
witts .
Wyle Lecher Brechin quho contems, thy soulls bryd
groume our Lord,
Hou can thou keipe the Veedlocke band and not therfra
debord.
Vrechit Edinburgh doeth gape for pelfe ; and neuer had
ye grace,
Once Symeon lyke with his full hands, Christ Jesus to
embrace.
A papist thou art Galloway, in Heaven thoues never
duel!,
Thy crooked soule and fyrie head, willl cause ye marche
to hell.
Dunkell is riche and suims in wealth, God mammon still
he loues,
And he more subiect unto him, then to Jehova proues.
Rosse is a courtier, hot (he) doeth, ye court of heauin
disdaine,
He pryses earthly princes courts, vaine -glory, pompe,
and trayne.
Of rascall father, and a dame : distracted doeth dis-
cend,
This suartling quhelpe, vithin hes brou doeth pryde and
vrath protend.
6 PASQUILS, &c.
Argyle ingurgitats and eattes, vith surfeit in a feast,
For quhay, the simple soule makes god, each morsell to
his taist.
Plunged Aberdeine with pouerty, the riches he deuored,
By houpe for woodsett of hes soule ar blasted by the
Lord.
Slee subtile Murray thinks to catch, old Sathan by hes
wylles,
For he by slikey lyes and wourdes, some sillie men be-
gylles.
Dumblaine lickes out and chalice lickes, vnmyndfull yat
he may,
Heir learne to suffer thrist with those, sail tortur him
for ay.
Falsse Jylles yat thou loues fraud, scarsse fault it is in
the,
A Bishope, and ane heighlandman, hou can thou honest bee.
Off all or Lord and Sauiors 12. no traitor wes hot one,
Bot all thesse 12 doe firmly ioyne our sauiour to de-
throne.
Good Orkney onlie leueth right : is skilled in archery craft,
His string is Loue, hes marke is christ, a steadfast faith
hes shaft. '*
1 * Bishop Graham is indebted to his truckling to the Preby-
terian party for these high praises, the justness of which may be
questioned. He is said to have been of the family of Inchbrecky.
He was first minister of Scoon, then Bishop of Dumblane, from
whence he was translated to the See of Orkney, where he discharged
PASQUILS, &c. 7
Both soule and bodey Cathnes l c cures, there none hot
only he,
Treu pastor and phisitian may only termed be.
III.
Satire vtlxtin$ to
This singular production was for the first time printed in the
Scots Magazine for February 1807, with the following notice pre.
fixed. " This curious piece was obligingly transmitted to us, by
" a literary gentleman of the first eminence, who found a copy,
" probably the only one which exists, written on the blank leaves
" of an early edition of the Bruce, in a hand of the middle of the
" 17th century. It was probably composed by Mr Thomas For-
" rester, Episcopal minister of Melrose, a man of considerable
the duties of the Episcopal function for twenty-three years. To
avoid the penal consequences of excommunication, he submitted
to the General Assembly at Glasgow, and was deprived llth De-
December 1638 ; and thus saved his purse at the expense of his re-
putation.
l 6 Abernethy seems to have gone farther than Graham ; for
we learn from Balfour's Annals, Vol. II. p. 311, that he " re-
" ceaved sentence of deposition from his office of Episcopacy, and
" he to be receaved in the office of the ministrie upon his publicke
" repentance, to be made in the kirk of Jedburgh. "
8 PASQUILS, &c.
humour, who was deposed by the Assembly in 1638, on account
< of various alledged crimes, of which the chief was doubtless
his attachment to prelacy, and to the royal cause. Milne, in
" his Description of the Parish of Melrose, ' pp. 38, 41, ex-
* presses his surprise that a Satire, which made so much noise in
" its day, should not have been noticed, and preserved by suc-
** ceeding writers. He had searched in vain for a copy, l The
' piece is well worthy preservation, having much satirical and
" forcible expression. We have added a few notes, collected from
*< the history of the times, to illustrate the leading characters men-
* tioned in it. " Many errors have occurred in the transcription,
which are now put right, by a collation of the printed version with
a MS. recently found, in the handwriting of Robert Mylne.
First Part.
Frome Glasgow z Raid to which mad meeting,
Huge troups frome all quarters came fleeting,
With dags and guns a in forme of warre, 3
All loyal subjects to debarre ,
1 He quotes several lines which are not found in the Satire ;
but this discrepancy is easily accounted for, as he took them from
the recitation of an old gentlewoman. a bags. R. M.
2 The General Assembly in 1638, which threw off the King's
authority, was held at Glasgow.
5 The Covenanters came armed to the Assembly, under pre-
tence of securing their personal safety against the outrages which
were said to have been committed in that neighbourhood, by the
clan of the Macgregors. Stevenson's Hist, of the Church, vol. 2.
PASQUILS, &c.
Wher Bishops 4 might not shew their faces,
And mushroome elders s fill'd their places.
Frome such mad pranks of Catharus,
Almighty God deliver us !
Frome sitting in that convocation,
Discharged by open proclamation, 6
Who did not stirr till they had ended,
All the mischief they had intended ;
Frome all their cobbling knobs and knacks,
Set out in forme of public acts,
And all such pranks, &c.
4 The court were extremely urgent that Bishops should be ad-
mitted into this Assembly, and that one of their number should
be moderator ; but this the opposite party, who were bent on the
ruin of Prelacy, succesfully opposed. Ib.
s The Court urged also the exclusion of lay elders, wishing
the Assembly to consist entirely of clergymen, with the view,
doubtless, of shutting it against those powerful nobles who had
exposed the party of the Covenanters ; but this proposal was also
frustrated. Ib.
6 On the 29th November 1638, a proclamation was made at
the Market Cross of Glasgow, prohibiting, under pain of treason,
any farther meetings of the Assembly. The Assembly, however,
in defiance of this proclamation, resolved to continue their sittings,
and proceeded to the most violent measures against the Court and
Bishops. 76.
10 PASQUILS, &c.
Frome usurping the King's forts,
Frome fortifying the sea-ports,
To shelter rebels and withstand
The King, nay God's revenging hand ;
Frome usurping the king's rent,
Frome threescore strange books in print,
And all mad pranks, &c.
Namely Buchannan's Regni Jus,
Among such books most pernicious,
Now there is one worse, so God me save,
Sent out I thinke from Hell's conclave ;
I cannot hit its name, shame'fall it,
" Defensive armes, " I trow they call it,
And all such, &c.
Frome usurping the King's presse,
So that no book could have accesse,
Which might maintaine the King's just title,
Or crosse the covenant ne'er so little ;
Its strange, but trew, books of that straine,
Are bar'd under the highest pain,
And all such pranks, &c.
Frome displaying the Covenant's banner,
Frome taking up in savage maner
Horses, comes, catle, every thing,
Frome true men to God and King,
PASQUILS, &c. 11
Namelie from kirkmen, I am sorie,
When I think on Breichen's 7 sad storie,
And all such pranks, &c.
Frome attempting to translste
The sacred monuments of state,
From the sevententh of December,
Which day with horrour we remember,
Frorae threatening to renew the play,
Hatcht on that black and dismal day,
And all such pranks, c.
Frome casstng acts of Parlament,
Without the three estates consent,
7 James Wedderburn, who was first Bishop of Dumblain, and
afterwards of Brechin. Of all the bishops he appears to have been
the most zealous for Prelacy, and for the royal authority. When
the Service-book first came down, he allowed the clergy of his dio-
cess no alternative, but either of reading it, or of immediate de-
position. Afterwards, when dread of popular violence deterred
all the other bishops even from reading it themselves, he " resolved
to serve the King at a time when other feeble cowards crouched. "
Accordingly, with his family he went armed to church, and having
got in before the usual time, shut the doors and read the service :
but was so roughly handled on his return home, that he never ven-
tured to repeat the experiment. When the Assembly at Glasgow,
in December 1638, proceeded to violent measures against the
Bishops, he was at once deposed and excommunicated. Ib. p. 631.
12 PASQUILS, &c.
Nay, if th' assembly do command,
The King himselfe may not withstand ;
Ecclesiastical decrees
Against kirk lawes and liberties,
And all such pranks, &c.
From abrogating prelacie
In Parliament ; one of the three
Estates, it cannot be denied .
But that estate should be supply'd ;
But how I pray shal this be done,
Unless it be brought from the moonc,
And all such, &c.
Frome making pricklows and the King
Of equal power in every thing,
Pertaining to kirk government,
And that with Bellarmine's extent ;
To all things which in any sense
To kirk maters have reference,
And all such, &c.
From transcendant prerogative
Given to a bodie collective,
A mutinous maklet trouble-feast,
A prattie, peevish, monstrous beast ;
With many heads, and in all things
A Puritane, the bane of Kings,
And all such, &c.
PASQUILS, &c. 13
From Boyd's 8 French " Ruling Elder's hors : "
His " Gilead's Balrae, " a great deal wors,
And last of al, his revocatione
(For his young sone) of donatione ;
Made by himself to pious use ;
Frome all such foolries and ahuse,
And all such pranks, &c.
Frome one thing said, another seen,
Frome th' outrage done to Aberdeen ;
From hollow hearts and holy faces,
Frome ridiculous prayers and graces ;
From peremptorie reprobatione,
Frome Hendersone's 9 rebaptizatione,
And all such pranks, &c.
8 Lord Boyd. He was among the first noblemen who signed
the Covenant, and was sent with some others to Glasgow, in order
to overcome the scruples which were entertained against it by some
clergymen there. Ib. Surely, Zachary Boyd, is the person meant ?
ED.
9 Alexander Henderson, minister of Leuchars. He was at first
a supporter of Prelacy, and had thereby rendered himself so un-
popular, that at his admission the populace blo'cked up all the
doors, and they were obliged to break in at the windows. He was
converted, however, by a sermon of Mr Robert Bruce, a name
famous in the annals of Presbytery. From that time he became
the prime mover in all the measures against the Court and Bishops.
On the meeting of Assembly in 1638, he was made moderator.
He died in 164*6. Ib. Saillie, passim. Scots Worthies, p. 169.
PASQUILS, &c.
First when the baser sort began
To act rebellioune, O than
It was base rebellioune and rage :
But when great men entered the stage,
And act it over again, O strange,
It was pure religione from that change,
And all such pranks, &c.
Frome false and forged informations,
Against the King's gracious declarations,
Whereby they laboured to persuade,
That he forsooth minds to invade
His own subjects and to subdue them,
Even as a King that never knew them,
And all such, &c.
Frome puritane's equivocationes,
And from their mental reservations,
Wherein they doe, ther is no doubt,
Jesuifces in their own bow outshoot ;
From all rebellious leagues and unions,
Gathering to sections and communions,
And all such, &c.
From kirkmen's independencie,
The main pillar of papacy,
Frome censures past on men for breaking
Of kirks canons before their making ;
PASQUILS, &c. 15
From ruling elders inspirations,
And phanatick jaculations,
And all such, &c.
Frome turncoat preacher's supplications,
And from their mental reservationes, b
Frome lawless excommunications,
Frome laicks household congregations,
Frome unsupportable taxations,
Ther are the covenanting actions,
And all such, &c.
The Second Part.
Frome Hendersone who doeth ourtope
The Patriarcks, for he is Pope,
Yet Leckie I0 makes bold to oppose,
His holines ev'n to his nose ;
b Shameless recantations. R. M.
1 The Laird of Leckie, a gentleman of property in Stirling-
shire, who became the head of a sort of independent sect, and in
imitation of some refugees from Ireland, held private meetings at
his own house, where the Irish form of worship was used. In an
age of innovation, this novelty soon met with many followers.
Leckie having besides spoken disrespectfully of Mr Harry Guthriej
and other ministers of Stirling, was arraigned before the Assembly,
and long discussions took place on the subject " Mr Henderson
vented himself on many occasions passionately opposite to these
conceits. " BaUUc's Letters.
16 PASQUILS, &c.
Leckie, a covenanting brother,
Go to, let on divel ding another,
And all such, &c.
From Leslie's " quondam excellence,
Who want's too long a recompence
For his good service ; yet, however,
Better he have it late than never ;
The same I wish to all arch traitours,
To all their favourers and factors,
And all such mates, &c.
Frome all who swear themselves mensuorne,
Frome Louthian, Loudoun, Lindsay, Lome,
Prince Rothes, and Balmirrino, L 2
And devout Lordings many moe ;
11 Colonel, afterwards General Leslie, who commanded the
army of the Covenanters. ' its God's. R. M.
1 2 So early as 1633, the Earl of Lothian, Lord Loudon,
Lord Balmerino, the Earl of Rothes, and Lord Lyndsay, are
enumerated by Guthrie as avowed supporters of the Presbyterian
interest. (Mem. p. 9. ) Loudon, in particular, was a most stre-
nuous supporter of this cause. Even in 1626, when the King
brought forward his scheme for the revocation of tithes and church
lands, this nobleman, with Lord Rothes, went to London, and pe-
titioned, though without effect, against that measure. These two
were always employed in presenting the various representations
and supplications which were afterwards made to the King on the
PASQUILS, &c. 17
Who lead the dance and rule the rost,
And forceth us to make the cost,
And all such, &c.
Frorae Duns Lawe's rebells rabbled out,
Rascalls frome all quarters sought out ;
subject of the liturgy and Perth articles. He was one of those
employed to draw up the complaint against the bishops, given in
1637 ; and when, after repeated remonstrances, the Commissioners
were at length admitted before the council, he made a long speech,
enumerating all the grievances which Scotland had suffered, and
declaring, that, far from submitting to be tried by the Bishops, he
could prove them guilty of the most shocking crimes. Afterwards,
when Charles was compelled, by his disasters in England, to throw
himself in the arms of the Scottish Parliament, he made Loudon
Lord Chancellor. And when the King was afterwards reduced to
the last extremity, he was one of those that presented the petition
calling upon him to take the Covenant ; at which time he is said
to have accosted his Majesty in the following plain terms : " The
difference between your Majesty and your Parliament is grown to
such a height, that, after many bloody battles, they have your Ma-
jesty, with all your garrisons and strongholds, in their hands, &c.
They are in a capacity now to do what they will in Church and
State ; and some are so afraid, and others so unwilling, to proceed
to extremities, till they know your Majesty's last resolution. Now,
Sire, if your Majesty shall refuse your consent to the resolutions,
you will lose all your friends in the House and in the city, and all
England will join against you as one man ; they will depose you,
and set up another government; they will charge us to deliver
B
18 PASQUILS, &c.
Faire England's forces to defeate,
Without armour, money, or meat :
True, some had forks, some roustie dags,
And some had bannocks in their bags,
And all such, &c,
Frome the table's emissaries,
Frome mutineers of all degrees :
your Majesty to them, and remove our arms out of England ; and:
upon your refusal we will be obliged to settle religion and peace
without you ; which will ruin your Majesty and your posterity. "
(Scots Worthies, p. 247.) On the establishment of Cromwell's
government he lost all his influence, and was dismissed from his
office. The restoration, however, was much worse, when, " it is in-
conceivable to express the grief this godly nobleman sustained," both
on account of the renewal of" Popery, Prelacy, and slavery," and
the dangers which threatened his own person. These affected him
so violently, that he died on the 15th of March 1662, before the
meeting of Parliament. (Stevenson's History of the Church.
Baillie's Letters.)
Lord Rothes was equally zealous, and his name is generally
mentioned along with that of London in the transactions of those
times. In the Parliament of 1633, on the clerk's declaring that
an important question had been carried in the King's favour,
Rothes rose and affirmed the contrary. When the King went
north shortly afterwards, the Earl of Rothes and Lord Lindsay
assembled about 2000 of the Fife gentry to meet him ; but the King
was so incensed at their previous conduct, that he shunned them
by taking a by-road to Dunfermline.
PASQUILS, &c. 19
Priests, Lords, Judges, and clerks of touns,
Proud citizens, poor country clouns ;
Who in all courses disagree,
Bot joyne to crosse authoritie,
And all such, &c.
Frome thes who put no difference
'Twixt constraint and obedience,
Lord Balmcrino concurred in all the measures of the other
Lords, and particularly in a petition which was to have been pre-
sented to the King in 1633, but was suppressed from the fear of
offending his Majesty. This petition having been found in Bal-
merino's possession, a criminal process was opened against him,
and, by the casting vote of the Earl of Traquair, he was condemned
to die. But, " it was resolved, either to set him at liberty, or to
revenge his death on the Court and eight jurymen ; " which, Tra-
quair learning, procured him a pardon. This transaction, both by
irritating the Covenanters, and by showing them their own strength,
proved deeply injurious to the Royal cause.
Archibald Lord Lome, afterwards Marquis of Argyle, was much
slower in declaring himself. He continued long a member of
Council, though he is supposed to have made secret remonstrances
against the imprudent measures of the Court. But in 1638, when
the General Assembly determined to sit, notwithstanding their be-
ing dissolved, this nobleman agreed, though not a member, to con-
tinue a witness to their proceedings, which the Assembly consider-
ed " as the greatest human encouragement they could meet with, "
but which occasioned a complete breach between him and the
Court. The subsequent fortunes of this nobleman are sufficiently
known.
20 PASQUILS, &c,
St Paul made Caesar supreme judge,
To Caesar had his last refuge ;
Fy then on these who dare appeal
Frome Caesar in preposterous zeal,
And all such, &c.
Frome Prelates dumb 1 3 by self-confession,
Frome Priests too nigh the same transgressione,
Frome those that ne'er gave any prooffe,
Of loyalty ; bot hold, alooffe,
Frome traitours under trust, yow'll say
Ther is non such, yet we will pray,
From all such mates, &c.
Frome Will Dick I4 that usurious chuff,
His feathered cape, his coat of buff;
For all the world a saddled sow,
A worthie man and Generall too ;
Frome both the Duries, IS these mad sparks,
One brybing judge, two cheating clerks,
And all such, &c.
1 5 Damn'd in the printed copy.
14 Probably the rich ancestor of Priestfield. See Pasquils,
Vol. II. p. 100. ED.
15 Gibsons of Dune. The laird of Durie appears, like Argyll,
to have once been a member of the Royal council. He came over,
however, earlier to the other side ; for before the meeting of the
assembly, we find him protesting against the substitution of the
PASQUILS, &c. 21
Frome Hackertoun, if yow would know him,
His painted beard, and breeches show him,
A whyted bauk of rotten timmer,
Is th' upright emblem of that limmer.
Thanks to the covenant, his whoores
Live now at rest within his doores.
And all such, &c.
Frome corner-creeping parlour preachers,
Of blind disciples, more blind teachers ;
Frome cisternes that no water hold,
Frome Aberdeen's base and false gold,
Frome daubers with untempered mortar,
Frome Row, I6 the springal pulpit sporter,
And all such pranks, &c.
Confession of Faith for the Covenant. From that time the cause of
the Covenant was strenuously supported by himself and all his fa-
mily, particularly Alexander, of whom more hereafter.
i ^ John Row, minister at Carnock. He appears frequently in
the Covenanting lists, and was even proposed as moderator of
the General Assembly 1638, though Henderson was preferred.
Thus far by the former editor, who I suspect is mistaken, as
probably " Pockmanty Mr James," so called from the celebrated
sermon he preached in St Giles's Church, the last Sunday of July
1038, was the person alluded to. He was minister at Monivaird
and Strouan, and the fifth son of the minister of Carnock. See a
very scarce collection of fugitive pieces, called Reliquiae Scoticae,
8vo, Edin. 1828, where an account of him, taken from Robert
My Ine junior's MS. genealogy of his mother's relations will be
found. In old Mylne's version the name is Reid.
22 PASQUILS, &c.
Frome northern Dunbar, Murray's chanter,
The knave became a covenanter ;
To save his lyfe how may that be,
The covenant its a sanctuary
To felons and to false suras,
And all such cheating rogues as he is,
And all such, &c.
Frome the most stupid senseles asse,
That ever brayed, my cousin Casse,
He is tli' assemblyes voyce, and so,
Th' assembly is his echo.
The fool speaks first, and all the rest
To say the same are ready prest,
And all such, &c.
Frome Eliot, Tueddal's Jackanaips,
In pulpit when it skips and leaps,
It makes good sport, I must confesse,
Its a mad monkie, questionlesse.
Frome Selkirke's glory young and old,
Selkirke's reproach if truth were told,
And all such, &c.
Frome Minniboles Bonner, IJ out upon him,
I could find in my heart to stone him ;
1 7 James Boner, minister at Maybole : He is often mentioned
PASQUILS, &c. 23
The knave affirmes that therms no odds
Betwixt his hors hous and Gods ;
Frome Ecfoord's trumpeter of stryfe,
Who worships a deafe idoll wyfe,
And all such, &c.
Frome kirk Archie knave or foole,
He puts our court Archie d to schoole ;
Frome Lesly, that adulterous whore,
And devout palyards by the scoare,
Who among all whores reject not one,
Except the whore of Babylone,
And all such, &c.
Frome him that's neither cold nor hot,
Frome Kersalt Prestone's saltles sot,
Frome Adamsone, 1 8 pray know the man,
A palyard drunkard charlitan,
And principal in al three, its much
That any one man should be such,
And all such, &c.
Frome covenanting familists,
Amsterdamian separists,
among the most active Presbyterians, though we find nothing par-
ticular recorded of him. d Archy Armstrong, the Court jester.
i 8 John Adamson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh,
and a zealous supporter of the Covenant.
24 PASQUILS, &c.
Antinomians and Brownists,
Jesuitizing Calvinists,
Murranzing Buchananists,
All monster Misobasilists :
These are the raaites of Catharus,
Almighty God deliver us.
Frome noble beggers, beggermakers,
Frome all bold and blood undertakers,
Frome hungry catchpoles, knyted lounes,
Frome perfumed puppies and babouns,
Frome caterpillars, moths, and rats,
Hoi's leiches, state, blood-suicking brates,
And all such, &c.
Frome Sandie Hall, IS> and Sandie Gibsone, J0
Sandie Kinneir, and Sandie Johnstoun ;
Whose knaverie made them covenanters,
To Keep their neckes out of 'the belters
Of falshood greid whan yow'll't name.
Of treacherie they think no shame.
Yet thes the mates of Catharus,
Frome whome good Lord deliver us.
1 9 Probably Haye in MS. ED.
2 o Alex. Gibson, younger of Dime, advocate. When the King's
declaration of the 4th of July was published at Edinburgh, he pro-
tested against it in name of the Barons. He was also employed
to collect evidence against several of the Bishops, at the time of
their persecution by the Assembly in 1638. See Pasquils, Vol. IT.
p, 9, for Samuel Colville's opinion of him.
PASQUILS, &c. 25
ADDITIONAL VERSES FROM MYLNE's MSS. *
From Williamson who had seaven wyves,
I tell not how they lost their lyves,
But how he pull'd fra his coad piece,
The Covenant was an od piece :
I will not here relate the story,
But all was acted to God's glory.
From all thes pranks, &c.
From greedie, false, base John Kinnier,
Who in all thrie worse Lourie or Keir ;
A witches son, shame fall his face,
Sa carling lyke, betyde no grace :
* These verses are evident interpolations, particularly the first,
where " Mass David Williamson, " and his seven wives are
mentioned, as to whom, see first book. Old Robert Mylne
seems to have had no great respect for " Dainty Davy ; " and it is
not unlikely that he thought this eminent person might, with no
great impropriety, be introduced amongst the worthies described in
the pasquil, overlooking the evident anachronism of placing a*
mongst individuals who flourished in 1638-9, a person who then
must have been a mere child, and whose virtues did not become
conspicuous till considerably more than twenty years afterwards.
26 PASQUILS, &c.
From churchmen's independence,
The main pillar of poperie.
From sic mad mates, &c.
IV.
St Caueat for
1638-9.
From Sir Robert Balfour's MS.
Stand to thy covenant, read, sworae, and signed
Stand for ye treuth Chryst's Gospell hath combyn'd>
Thy sueet spread leaues in ends for faith and zeall,
Sail sure triumphe, God's glorey must prewaill.
Most parts of Europe praisse the, ar enclyn'd
To pray for grace, to blisse thy constant mynde.
This trayells siiFs thy wipers, kirk bred slaues,
Woulffs cled in lambskins, basse deceauing knaues ;
And turne coate temporizers, this poynts fourth
Ther falshood in thy trew religious worthe.
Flie superstitione then : thy sister soyle
Is suallowing popery : o she's made a spoyle
PASQUILS, &c. 27
To pollicey and poyson ; each kirk is forc'd
To reare wpe altars, and quhat (ach) is worste
They bow ther heads to stockes, books, and blue candells,
See hou the Deiuell and popery with them dandells.
The factione fast prauaills, and Rome sho guesses
That pouer will causse proclaime her idole masses.
Ther's heir a misterie tuixt zea and no,
Pouer wold punish ; hot terror stopes the blow.
Liue then free, Scotland, for ther's non dare griue the,
If thou stand fast religione will not leaue the.
For dotting Spootswood, s yat pernitious weeid,
That cormorent of smouke, yat shakis the head,
Hes palsey letts, hes conscience quakes, and how
To make our heads lyke hes to Balaam bow ;
Bot last and worste, three snakes from hell arraysse,
Three changelings, wold God's worde and kirke surprysse.
First Bishope Mackiuell a pelagius bastard,
That sterne faced turae coat tyranizing dastard.
Curst Canterberries creture : he domineris
Lyke Nuncio con ; and in hes shape appeiris
1 Archbishop of St Andrews. He was a very worthy man, not-
withstanding of the abuse lavished upon him.
2 Maxwell, Bishop of Ross. This Prelate, in a pamphlet en-
titled " Sacra Sancta Regum Majestas," which was answered by
Rutherford in his Lex Rex, " made use of an apothegem " of
King James VI., " that Monarchy and Scottish Presbytery agree as
well as God and the Devil, "
28 PASQUILS, &c.
With Gallaway Tarn : 3 yat squint eyed stridling asse,
That vinking vrighter, he may a shauelling passe,
For spight a scribe : for tyranney and scorne,
Lett Gallway curse the day this wretche wes borne.
The youngest snake, Quhytefoord 4 comes pleading for it,
He cannot preach none, yat makes him abhorre it.
He loues the barre, as lawers loue dissentione,
And creel lyke liues in the fyre of contentione.
Thesse hoodwinks now, thesse black wasted crowes ar
stolne
Lyke theiues to courte, O how, their breists ar swolne
To be revenged ? with basse John knaue ther man,
Edinburghs foe, hes knaueries quho wold scan.
Sail find this sycophant ane odious traitour,
A miscreant willaine, a perfideous creture ;
3 Sydserf was unpopular from his exertions to introduce the
liturgy. He was nearly murdered on the streets of Edinburgh hy
an infuriated rabhle. His pupil Lord Traquair coming to his as-
sistance, was soon in as had a plight as the Bishop, the multitude
shouting out, to his Lordship's infinite horror, " God defend those
that defend God's cause! God confound the service-book, and all
the maintainers of it ! " Both of them would have been torn to
pieces, .had assistance not been procured. It is melancholy to think
what acts of barbarity, religious phrensy too often prompts indi-
viduals, even of a humane disposition, to perpetrate.
4 Mr Walter Whytefoord, who with Mr David Lindesay, Bishop
of Brechin, wore deposed and excommunicated, 7th December
PASQUILS, &c. 29
Wyffes, s ather stone or hange him, you must doe it,
As for the rest lett Scotland look vnto it.
Goe break ther neckis, els banish them thy border,
To live lyke rogues ; the Lord confound the order.
s This seems an appeal to Janet Geddes and her friends. The
story of this woman's throwing a stool at Archbishop Spots-
wood, is too well known to admit of repetition. The hint given
by the author was not lost, for the women seem to have taken a
great lead in the reformation of the church. In Archbishop Sharp's
time, a female association was formed for the very feminine object
of murdering him.
30 PASQUILS, &c.
V.
tu
Carnmfca*!.
This Ryme wes composed of a letter sent be Master Alex-
.*< ander Thomesone, one of the ministers of Edinburghe,
" to Sir James Carmichaell, thesaurer-depute at Courte.
.?' The letter wes written after ye first tumult in
*' Edinburghe "anent the seruice booke mis-
" carried and diuulged, and turned
" in this ryme to scoffe the minis-
" ter. " Balfour's MS.
1
My Lord, your unexpected post,
To courte : made me to misse
The happiness quhilk I loue most,
Your Lordship's hand to kisse.
2
Bot tho with speed ze did depairt,
So fast ze shall not flee,
PASQUILS, &c. 31
As to wntay * my louing harte,
Wich your conuoy shall be.
3
I neid not to impairt to you
Hou our church stait does stand,
By this neu seruice book which nou
So troubclls all this land.
4
Nor darre I the small boate adventure
Of my most shallow braine,
Wpon thesse fearfull seas to enter
In this tempestuous maine.
5
Wnless yat by authoritie
I charged be to doe so,
Wich may command and shelter me
From shipwreck and from woe.
6
Therfor to God its to dispoisse
This causse I will commend,
For woefully it is by thoise
Abussed quho should it tend.
i Untye.
32 PASQU1LS, &c.
7.
And lyke it is to bring grate ill,
Since it intrustet wes,
To thesse had nather strenth nor skill
To bring such things to pas.
8.
Better thesse flames should quenschit be,
Yat they have set one fire,
Bot wisdome and authority,
That matter doeth requyre.
9.
Ane warrlyk nation still we ar,
Wich soune may slatrit a be,
Not forc'd, but broken quhen wee ar
Most loth then to aggre.
10.
So I commend you to the Lord,
And shall be glad if I
My countrey seruice can afford,
My loue to you to tray.
11.
And housoeuer I remaine
Your Lordships quhill I die,
And for your saue returne againe,
Your Beidman I shall be.
2 Slaughtered.
PASQUILS, &c. 33
VI,
: Shrumiraftr'fi itsmtf on tfcr
{, 14,
1638.
These verses are preserved in Balfour's MS., and are now for
the first time printed. They seem to have escaped the
notice of the editors of the various editions of
Drummond's Poems. Many unpublished
pieces of his are in the the library of the
Scotish Antiquarian Society ; but
neither they, or the Lines
now published, add much
to his reputation
as a poet.
Doe all pens slumber still, darr not one tray
In tumbling lynes to lett some pasquill fly,
Each houer a satyre creuith to display,
The secretts of this tragick comick play.
If loue should lett me vrett, I think you'd see
The Perenies and Alpes cum skipe to me,
And lauch themselues assunder ; If I'd trace
The hurly-burly of stait bussines.
34 PASQUILS, &c.
And to ye vorld abused once hot tell
The Legend of Ignatian Matchiuell ;
That old bold smouking monster and ye pryde^
Of thesse vsurping prelats, yat darr ryde
Vpon authority, and looke so gay
As (if goodmen) they ought (forsuith) to suay ;
Church, Stait, and all : plague one yat damned crew,
Of such Hell's black-mouth'd hounes : its of a new
That Roman pandars, boldly dar'd to ov (woo ?)
Nay straine a gentle king thesse things to doo.
That moue the French, Italian, and Spaine,
In a luxurious and insulting straine
To sing te Deum ; causse they houpe to ee
The glorie of the popeish prelacie
Raissed aboue hes Royall throne apaice,
To droune hes miner light with prouder face !
Thesse hounds they have ingaged him on ye stage
Of sharpe-eyed Europe, nay, ther's not a page,
Bot thinks he may laugh freily quhen he sees,
Kings Buffons acte, and Bishopes tragidies.
Should aney dauly with ye Lyon's pau,
Then know a distance, serpents stand in aw.
Nay pray you heavens once lend me hot your thunder,
He crusch and teare thesse sordid slaues assunder,
And leuell with ye dust ther altars home,
With the lasscivious organs pietie's scome ;
Or let me be as king, then of their skine
I'le causse dresse lether and fyne Marikin.
PASQUILS, &c. 35
To couer coatches (quher they wont to ryde)
And valke in bootes and shoes made of ther hyde,
Vhipe them at neighbour princes courts to show,
Yat no nouations Scotts zeall can allow.
I sacrifisse void such presumptions slaues
To my deir people, beat to dust ye knaues.
Then, if the pouder of ther bons to dray
The hare and pereuige to ye popes Lackay.
I noblie should resent and take to heart,
Thesse pedants pryde yat make poore Brittane smart
Confound ye church, ye stait, and all ye nation
With appish fooleries and abomination,
Leaves churches desolate, and stopes the mouth
Of faithful Vatchmen, quho dare preach hot treuth ;
Incendiary fyrebrands whosse proud wordes
Drope blood, and sounds the clattring noysse of suordis.
Had I hot half the spyte of Gallaway Tom,
That Roman snakie viper I'd fall from
Discreitter lynes, and rube ther itching eare
With Spanish nouells, hot I will forbeare,
Because my foster and my amorous quill,
Is not zet hard, proud pasquills to distill.
I doe intreat yat droll John de Koell
To sting them with satyres hatcht in hell.
Each doge chyde thesse tobacco breathed deuyns,
Each pen dairt volu ms of acutest lynes,
And print ye shame of yat black troupe profaine,
In liuid vords, with a Tartarian straine.
c 2.
36 PASQUILS, &c.
Since I a louer am and know not how
To lira a satyre in halffe hyddeous hew
Lyke to polypragmatick Macheuel,
In pleasant flame (not stryffe) I loue to duell.
Bot nou to Paris back I goe to tell
Some neues to plotting Riceleuj fair you weift.
VII.
at Cftatf cte,
From Balfour's MS.
It seems to some yat Brittaine (by the Masse)
Is now in earnist gaming at the chasse.
The Bischops bracke the play : they rang'd ye brod,
They stand not awe of man, zea scarce of God.
To serche and grow more grate they euer presse,
If Pope wer in the play, haue at hes place.
They play the roge, the knaue, for vnder cure,
They cheete both king and kingdome I am sure.
The noble knights ar forced to interposse,
Ther Hues and all to barr thesse cruell foes,
Quho ather aime to steall ye king to Rome
Quer he should lousse hes liberty and croun,
PASQUILS, &c. 37
Or ells to make him manles they intend
Destroying such as treulie him defend ;
Bot bookes and beckes and surples showes of lait,
They meine to giue cheke masse, if not cheke mate.
If them the raite of Game, tope them and take them,
Darr meine to checke the King : tho Queine should back
them.
Rokkes doubled one ane bur, should make us varrie,
That one reuld tuo barrs, first made all miscarey,
God moue the King to see and make ye same,
For still mismet and manles lousse the game.
To make the game goe right too strokes void furder,
Trew knights aduanc'd, fals Bishops put to order.
Marke euery man's deseings ther actions tells,
Thesse loues the King in treutli, thosse loue themselves.
VIII.
mafi* at tfte aSrittfl* xrf
, qutttn it toarf toon* tvam
xrf tfc* Hmrtft,
From Balfour's MS.
1.
God bliss our Covenanters in Fyffe and Lothean,
In Angus and the Mearnis, quho did us first begin
38 PASQUILS, &c.
With muskit and with carabin, with money speare and
shield,
To take the toune of Aberdeen and make our Marques "
yield.
2.
God bliss Montrois our General,
The stout Earl of Kinghorne,
That wee may long Hue and rejoyce
That euer they were borne.
The man yat hes ane eiuell wyffe,
He prayes God to amend her,
That he may Hue a quyat lyffe,
And dye a Couenanter.
3.
My Lord Aboyne * hes tintis style
Vith maney a Northland man,
Quhen couarly they fled away
For all ther craft and can.
Quhen they caroussed at ye brigend,
Drinkand their wyne and beaire,
1 Huntly.
2 Lord James Gordon, second Viscount of Aboyne, who, taking
the field for King Charles I. against the Covenanters, was defeated
by the Earl, afterwards Marquis of Montrose, at the Bridge of
Dee, 19th June 1039, after which he escaped by sea to England.
Wood's Peerage, Vol. I. p. 24. His Lordship was the third son
of the second JWarquis of Huntly.
PASQUILS, &c. 39
The Couenanters leuche at theme,
And dranke ye watter cleir.
I was a Couenanter
Long ere yat I came heire,
With my burnish't nmskit,
And my bandeleire.
My 7 yells of Flanders matche,
And my sheiring suord,
At euery woley I did shote,
. The limers yeul'd loud.
5.
I purpois to begin
In wersse for record,
The commendation of our men
That trusted in ye Lord.
Pray for our Couenanters,
Quho still depenes one god,
Quho proued treuly to ye end,
And marched be south the rod.
6.
The Laird of Bamffe 3 is taken ye sea,
His pilot for the Ruther,
3 George Ogilvy of Dunlugas, created a Baronet by King Charles
I. 30th July 1627. He signalized his loyalty and valour at the
40 PASQUILS, &c.
And dars not come a land agane,
For feare of Muskies mother.
The Laird of Bamffe hes gottin ye jamffe,
And so did Gight ane other,
My Lord Aboyne, beshet hes breikes
For feare of Muskie's mother. 4
7.
The Prouests daughter of Aberdeine,
She is a sore lamenter,
And cursses her father he will not be
Ane honest Couenanter.
The Couenanters of ye South,
They'ar honest, stout, and trewe,
And they haue woued both saule and lyiFe
To burae fals Aberdeine.
8.
Muskies mother hes made a wow
That she will take her wenter,
" Bridge of Dee in his Majesty's behalf, against the Covenanters,
under the conduct of James Earl of Montrose, An. 1639, and
5< continuing firm in his loyalty in the civil wars, was, in respect
thereof, raised to the dignity of Lord Banff, by letters patent,
bearing 31 of August 164-2. " Crawford, p. 34. The title is
now dormant, all the issue male of the body of the patentee having
failed ; but there being a remainder to heirs-male whatsoever, it
is claimed by Sir William Ogilvie, Bart., as next heir-male.
* A jcannon.
PASQUILS, &c. 41
And thunder throughe (the) brigc of Dee
Led by a Couenanter.
The Couenanters that ye see
Come marching alongest ye grein,
Wer not for feare of God they say,
They void plounder Aberdeine.
9.
I had a beard as vther men,
But God reuard ye pouder,
He suers he's neuer cocke hes matche,
Nor muskit one hes shoulder.
While yat the dogs of Aberdeene,
Wich did cast vpe such trinches,
Themselues with speed fill vpe the same
To please our Couenanters.
10.
The Douper doges of Aberdeene,
Is fled and veighed ther ankers,
They durst not byde into ther toune,
To feast ye Couenanters.
They left ther children and ther wyflfes,
To reed 5 yare reuelit zairne,
And cuckold-lyke fled for their Hues
Unto ye lyle of feme.
Red.
42 PASQUILS, &c.
IX.
Neto Hi
From Balfour's MS.
1.
From knoking priests and prelattis crouns
Without respecte of coates or gounes,
From Lanrick wyffes, euill be ther fate,
They knock't my deir friend one the pate ;
From all such bickring south and northe,
Or in the innes tuix Tay and Forth,
And all made pranks of Catharus,
Almightie God deliver us.
>
2.
From ye withstanding the solemne mentione,
Of Christ's birth-day, rysing, assentione,
From withholding the sealles of grace,
Quhen neid requyred in eveiy place ;
From branding ye quhole Liturgie
With poperie, quherof it is free,
And all made pranks of Catharus,
Almighty God deliver us.
PASQUILS, &c. 43
3.
From fasting one the Lords auen day,
Fasting without wairand, I say,
And fasting wich the Lord does hate,
For mantining stryffe and debait ;
From Ancrum bridge wee understand,
Such fasting spred throughout ye land,
And all made,. &c.
4.
From vpeside, downesyde brought of lait
Wnto ye church, wnto the stait,
Since Emperour Hacketts rainge I meine,
The lyke wes neuer hard, nor seine ;
From standing without feare of falling,
From extraordinary calling,
And all made, &c.
5.
From vorshipinge of imaginations,
From relaying upone Revelations,
From praying nonsense, and from fayning,
Yat Gods good Spirite neids no such praying ;
From tuoching of the Lords anoynted,
From a poore kirk, and stait disjoynted,
And all mad pranks of Catharus, &c.
44 PASQUILS, &c.
6.
From running heidlong to perditione,
From Presbetertiall inquisitione,
Quherin I wes once toss'd amainc,
I houpe neuer to come ther againe ;
From hurlie-burlie, pouder, shote,
From taying of a Gordian knot,
And all mad pranks of Catharus, &c.
7.
From visards, musties, and baitted hookes,
And all pernitious pamphlet bookes,
Namlie Buchanan's Regni Jus,
Wich is the most pernitious,
From mending vronges vith vorss and vorsse,
From stabing of a poor coatche hors,
And all mad pranks, c.
8.
From him quhat thinkes not quhat he sayeth,
And from a disobedient faith,
From cotting acts of parliament,
Agains the Lawers intent.
Frome a basse church and staitly table,
From brecking the communion table,
And all mad pranks, &c.
PASQUILS, &c. 45
9.
From the long prayers of dewot sisters,
From master madecaps rotten glisters,
From sermons made to blow ye fyre,
All over the land for Balaams hyre.
From Bischopes A yat betray the causse,
And advocatts yat vretts the lawes,
And all mad pranks, &c.
10.
From ye table, na tabellis three
Of Lords, Barrens, and Ministrie,
From ther decrees and all neu glosses,
And from pitfalls, quakmyres and mosses ;
From all wich is not reuell'd with ressone,
From all conspiracy and tressone,
And all mad pranks, &c.
11.
From sitting church assemblie free,
From all Royal authority,
A free assembly falsely named,
Wich is not by the King proclaimed,
And crossing that wich he proclaimes,
From ther most dangerous extremes,
And all mad pranks, &c.
1 Fairly Bishop of Argyle, Graham Bishop of Orkney, and
Aberncthy Bishop of Caithness. See notes to 3d Pasquil.
PASQUILS, &c.
12.
From euery band of combinatione,
Wich wants the princes approbatione,
And more from manifest repyning,
Against his witt in such inioyning ;
But most of all for standing to it,
Against all persons quho darr doe it,
And all mad pranks, &c.
13.
From proud and perwers suplications,
Pute wp in lawless conuocations,
From creids made vpe of poore negations,
Inlarged with faithless explications,
Informations, protestations,
The couenant and all hes actions.
Thesse ar the pranks of Catharus,
From wich ye Lord deliuer us.
THE SECOND PAIRT OF THE NEW LETTANEY.
1.
From pedler, shewbleck, and pricklous,
Elders and reulers of God's housse,
From menders of the magnificat,
Quho knowes not quid significat ;
PASQUILS, &c. 47
From stripling staitsmen, stout and bold,
Some 10, some 12, and 9 zeir old,
And all mad mattes of Catharus,
Almighty God deliver us.
2.
From the Cathlicon of Spaine,
From the Jesuit knave in Graine,
From Henderson, Dickson, x and Cant, *
Apostles of the Couenant,
1 David Dickson, " Preacher of God's word at Irwine, " as he
designs himself in the title-page of " a short Explanation of the
Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews " printed in 12mo, by Edward
Rabane, at Aberdeen, 1635.
2 In a tract, aa curious as it is rare, entitled " An Account
of the Proceedings of the General Assembly at Glasgow, 1638, "
12mo, privately printed from the original cotemporary MS.
occurs the following extraordinary specimen of Cant's learning
and oratory, " Then another was delivered to the Clerk, accusing
" Mr David Mitchell (a reverend minister of Edinbuigh} of Ar-
" minianism, Mr Andrew Cant, (upon whose judgement the As-
fl sembly did much rely), was desired to deliver his judgment con-
" cerning Arminianism : He very gravely and modestly did ex-
" cuse himself in that matter, that there were many more learned
tc than he, to speak of that matter; for I, saith he, have been o-
" therwise exercised than in reading Arminius's tenets ; for after
" I had spent some years in the College of Aberdeen, I was pro-
moted to be a Doctor (i. e. Usher} of the Grammar School
' there, and in the mean time I did read Becanus his Theology-
" There was one sitting beside him, who touched him on the el-
48 PASQUILS, &c.
From Rollock, Ramsay, patriarks, 3
And their adherents all made sparks.
And all mad mattes, &c.
" bow, and told him, Becanus was a Jesuit, and that he should
*< have said Bucanus. He crav'd the whole Assembly pardon, that
' he should have nam'd a Jesuit, and protested that he never read
" three lines, either on Jesuit or any other Popish writer ; yea,
saith he, I abhor reading these men, whom they call the Fathers,
" for one told me, who heard it of Mr Charles Ferm'e, that they
" smelPd too much of Popery: Bucanus have I studied, and
" some English Homilies, but, above all, I ow all I have to the
" most Reverend Mr Cartwright ; - (the great English Apostle of
tf Presbytery, in the days of Queen Elizabeth.') I would have
" studied Mr Calvin's Institutions, but I found them somewhat
" harsh, and obscure to be understood, (i. e. he did not understand
*< Latin,/or Calvin writes in a plain intelligible stile, but his Latin
*' 15 as rejlned as any performance that ever appeared in that lan-
" guage this 1600 years), and in the meantime, when I should have
" studied most, I had such a Prick in my Flesh, that I behoved
' either to marry or burn, being of a complexion quite contrary
" to our Moderator ; ( This may easily be believed, if what is re-
*' ported of him be true, viz. That he begot his son Mr Andrew, up-
" on a Sunday, betwixt his Forenoon and Afternoon's Sermons.')
" Therefore, Moderator, I request you to ask some other's judg-
" ment concerning that: for Popery, Arminianism, and the Al-
" coran, are all alike known to me. The 'Moderator, a modest
< man, would not press him any more, seeing he had so largely
" and freely declared himself. " The sentences included in brack,
ets are in the original tract notes by the Editor upon the text
5 Messrs Henry Rollock and Andrew Ramsay, as to whom see
Bishop Guthry's Memoirs. In the account of the General A&-
PASQUILS, &c. 49
3.
And the good Christians of the West,
As from ane vaspe or hornets nest,
And, namlie from the town of Aire,
And ye old rascall Dumbar ther ;
From all such brats to mischeiffe borne,
Some tuysse banisht, some tuysse mensuorne,
And all mad mattes, &c.
4.
From preachers that haue words in store,
And faces too, but nothing more ;
From thosse quho quhen ther matter fails,
Rune out ther glasses 4 with idell tallies ;
sembly previously referred to, the former is designed as Mr Hen-
ry Rogue, which it seems was the popular way of pronouncing
Rollock, as we learn from a note of the Editor, who remarks,
" The name is Rollock, but it was then, and by some to this day,
" (1726) pronounced Rogue, and never man deserved the name
*' better, if we consult the minutes of that meeting. " He, Ram-
say, and the far more celebrated Dr William Guild, were accused
of Arianism.
* Glasses. Sand-glasses which were then used, in order that
the preacher might be enabled to know when it was time to give
over. A humorous story has been preserved of one of the Earls of
Airly, who entertained at his table a clergyman, who was to preach
before the Commissioner next day. The glass circulated, perhaps
too freely ; and whenever the divine attempted to rise, his Lordship
50 PASQUILS, &c.
And from lay lads, in pulpit bawling,
And tuisse a day rumbling and railing,
And all mad mattes, &c.
5.
From Jack on both syde, so and so,
Quho suers pro contra, contra pro,
With ventis vt nunc flantibus,
Et rebus vt nunc stantibus ;
From such Camelions, and such foxes,
And from the knock doune race of Knoxes,
And all mad mattes, &c,
6.
From pyet preachers with shoulder ruffes,
Or shoulder bands with elbow cuffes ;
With knaping, traping, strapping strings,
Buttons, boulace, ribands, and ringes ;
prevented him, saying, " another glass, and then. " After floor-
ing " (if the expression may be allowed) his Lordship, the guest
went home. He next day selected as a text, " The wicked shall
be punished, and that RIGHT EARLY. " Inspired by the subject,
he was by no means sparing of his oratory, and the hour-glass
was disregarded, although repeatedly warned by the precentor,
who in common with Lord Airly, thought the discourse rather
lengthy. The latter soon knew why he was thus punished, by the
reverend gentleman when reminded, always exclaiming, not sotto
voce, another glass, and then. "
PASQUILS, &c. 51
Piynts tangling heir, poynts tangling ther,
And cotane spangaries eury quher,
And all made pranks, &c.
7.
With French jouks and Spanish cappes,
And in a word lyk Jack and appis,
From tope to toe buskit lyke a sport,
From them as from a uitious sort ;
Quho in ther clothing vpe and doune,
Doe represent the countrey cloune,
And all mad prankis, &c.
8.
From preachers, chamberlanis and factors,
The Lords rent racks and exactors,
Corn mowngers, vsers, and fermors,
Store masters, montebanks, and charmers ;
In sum, quho employes both vitt and paine
One traids, though neuer so basse, for gane,
And all made pranks, &c.
9.
From typset preachers drunk all night,
And dreich againe e'r day be light,
From him yat feasts, quhen he should fast,
And from a trencher paraphrast ;
D2
52 PASQUILS, &c.
From busfiie Bishops without orders,
As master shrifts in ther borders.
And all mad pranks, &c.
10.
From them yat drinck drunk to God's glori,
And often tymes tell a pretty storey
Of Bischope Laude, or of the King,
Of Pope, of Spaine, or some such thing ;
Neuer without grosse calumnie,
Quherin ther faith doeth fructifie,
And all mad mattes, &c.
11.
From pupill, pastor, tutor, flocke,
From Gutter Jennie, pupit Jocke,
From all such head controlling taylles,
And from small barkes, with too big saylles ;
From him yat Jesus name defaces,
And violats all holy places,
And all mad mattes, &c.
12.
From couenanting, tage and rage,
From horsruber, saidler, scold and hagge,
Tinker, treulerd, slouene and sluit,
Dick, Jacke, and Tom, long taill and coitt ;
PASQUILS, &c. S3
Drunkard, and dyuor, theiffe and whore,
Infamous rascaills by the score.
These are the mattes of Catharus, s
From wich ye Lord deliuer us.
X.
tftc Htuflfcte at tfc*
It was asserted that King Charles, in order to conciliate
the Scots, while the treaty of the Isle of Wight
was pending, made too lavish a distri-
bution of the honour of knight-
hood amongst them.
1.
Welcome Sir James, welcome Sir John,
Ye worahipfull, welcome one by one,
5 Catharus, a Puritan.-" Cathari Hscretici quidam diet K0f 01
" puri ob simulatam puritatem. Puritans, a sect which denied
oaths upon an occasion for the deciding of any truth ; they main-
" tained absolute perfection in this life ; whence, with their Master
" Novatus, they denied repentance to those that fell away from 13ap-
" tism. " Littleton's Latin Dictionary, 4th Edition.
54 PASQUILS, &c.
You are the first fruits of the spring,
Ane frost slaine knight's a feckless thing.
Come ye from Jerusalem or the Rodes,
Or come ye from the Antipodes ?
Have ye cleared the way of Joppa,
That pilgrims hereafter may trotta ?
Since ye came from the Isle of Wight,
The place bespeaks you men of might,
Yet in your face ther is no scars,
Nor badges of honors in the wars ;
Yet ye may say ye'l fight as fast
As others that were knighted last ;
So if we raise ane armie here,
Our knights must take them to the reare,
Or stay at home, and keep the bairns
And ladyes from all forraine harmes.
2.
Fortie knights more then ane hunder
Dub'd in one day, o that's a wonder !
Thanks to our sacred Soveraigne Charles,
They now be knights were lately carles ;
The Baronets they have their red scale,
Bot these have neither stamp nor beale,
To know them one by one afarre,
Wee'l mark them with a licke of tarre,
That when they walk, or when they sleep,
They may be known for knighted sheep*.
PASQUILS, &c. 55
Let skin and birne, when they are gone,
Like Jason's fleece hing on the throne ;
Ane pretty embleme to sette forth,
That riches were preferred to worth.
King * Ceres sent us word which we forbeare
To transport comes out of our coast this yeare.
Autumne was unseasonable, we had nought to spare,
Yes, we may barter knights for forraine ware.
The Lion cryes Schival-avance,
The sword of justice gives a glance,
O strange and admirable force,
Numbers of asses starts up horse.
XI.
uj>0 tft* Jat* jtt8vi!fui&
Scotland now raise thy triumphs to the light,
Since heaven intends to vyndicat thy right
And libertie, justice begins to smyle,
Since the committment of the arch Argyle ;
Whose horrid crymes still aded to thy pains,
Thou near wert free till he was bound in chains.
1 Sic in MS. It should have been Qween but there may be a
joke in King,
56 PASQUILS, &c.
What ruin, murder, sacrilege and rapes !
Upon the lyves, souls, honours, and estates
Of faithfull men committed wer by him,
Whose every action was ane highest cryme
Gaynst king and country we may justly crave
Vengeance on him, who most unjustly gave
Such barbarous unjustice unto all,
And yet, O strange, was Justice Generall.
The noblest ghosts of Huntlie and Montrose,
With thousands more who heavilie did oppose
His cursed designs, whose royal blood hee spilt,
Which now at last serves to inhouse his guilt,
Shall gladlie from the highest heaven descend,
To view his tragic and deserved end :
And the spectators of his fatall doume
As he rejoyced in their martyrdome.
No words can serve to vtter what I think,
No word of paper, nor a sea of ink
Can well point out the villanies that he
Hath acted by infernal treacherie
Against his god, his country, and his prince,
His father, friends, kindred all at once I
I leave him then till Heaven be pleased to bring
Him to the justice of his God and King.
PASQUILS, &c. 57
XII.
an Mv U&man'rf Jtarmmtf.
From Wodrow's MSS. M. 6. 14. Advocates Library.
Some very strange particulars relative to Annand,
his wife Ann Murray, and Archbishop
Paterson, will be found in the 2d
Book of Pasquils, p. xvii.
Spectatum admissum risu teneatis amici.
Saw ye the comsedie that was acted,
When Baall's priest was consecrated
B(ishop) for Cajiphas.
Five Lords accompanied the beast,
They sold their honour for a feast.
Easau's a statesman.
Pluto's wassail in the west,
Sanct Johnstones ryben sets him best.
Welcome th' Alcorane.
58 PASQUILS, &c.
The foxe's servants most ye know ?
Beare up, yea kysse his taill, why no.
Breuk well.
In pulpit, black mouthed Doeg next,
Basely adulterats the text.
Ichabod preaching.
The latenie serv'd well that day,
Taucht thes learned rabbies what to say,
Grammercie Apochrypha.
Then swears Balaam to adore,
Dagone, who tuyse fell the arke before.
Beware the thred tyme.
He lyke Camelione feeds her flocke,
Alyke with his mouth and his dock.
No, galygayet.
What if they starve through want of milk,
Their fleece will make him walke in sylke.
Wolfe in shep's skin.
But Rabbies now that reul the rost,
How came you by the Holy Gost.
Vail llascalitts.
PASQUILS, &c. 59
He's not for mony to be had,
And tho' he wer, ye'r not so mad
As Simon Magus.
If he was given you from above,
His forme is changed, your actions prove
Not doves, but serpents.
There sure your crafts * not worth a groat,
Boast not to give what you have not,
Bold Charletouns. z
Lastly, that Antichristian limb
Balks David's psalmes, and sings a hymne.
Scripture's phantick.
Thus ends the Popish consecration,
In a fat feast and strong collation.
A health to Pope Buiraet.
Ede, bibe, dormi, post mortem nulla voluptas.
1 Corrected in the original to another word perfectly unintelli-
gible. It may stand either for < arts " or '< acts," or for any word
of four letters.
2 Out base Traytors.
60 PASQUILS, &c.
XIII.
" Upon a note of Mr Hanan's sermon, viz. evill is every
way evill : for add D, and it is devill, transpose
and it it is vill, remove the V and it
is ill, take away the I and
it is nothing. "
1.
Its not at all to preach, to analyze the Devill,
Such anagrams to make in pulpit is an evill ;
What can it edifie, sure it is doctrine vile,
To spell quhen he should preach, proves them an awful
ill.
Flashes of roving words, may seem indeed as something,
This something poore removed, the empty man is nothing.
Evill is his text, by devill he did enlarge,
His consequence is vile, for use ill comes on stage.
Auditonrs are deceaved, for they expected something,
But Devill, evill, vile, and ill, turn'd Hanan quite to no-
thing.
PASQUILS, &c. Gl
3.
Ill brings a man, you may be sure, that follows it to no-
thing ;
Vile makes an ill in all men's eyes, what seem'd before as
something.
When vile and ill together are, their gone before is evill,
And when these four for Gospel comes, sure there is
preach'd the Devill.
4.
Our parents quhen in innocence, then first began the
Devill
To preach the Gospell, and the text he preach'd upon was
Evill ;
Tho' Hanan he did seem to be, yet prov'd his doctrine
vile,
And they in their experience found, that quhat he preach'd
was ill.
He play'd the words, he them deceav'd, seeming to pro-
mise something,
At last they knew the Devill did preach, and something:
turn'd to nothing.
62 PASQUILS, &c.
XIV.
'& iUwntrtl mi
>t
1686.
From the Wodrow MSS. in the Advocate's Library. ' Sibbald,
<c who was the most learned antiquary in Scotland, had lived in a
. course of philosophical virtue, but in great doubt as to revealed
" religion, was prevailed on by the Earl of Perth to turn Papist ;
" but he soon became ashamed of haying done so, on so little en-
u quiry. He went to London for some months, retiring from all
" company, and went into a course of study, by which he came
'* to see into the errors of popery. He then returned to Scotland,
*' and published his recantation openly in church. " BURNET.
Many very curious particulars respecting this very suspicious con-
version, (as at that time such a step was quite sufficient to insure pre-
ferment), are to be found in Sibbald's Autobiography, which still,
it is to be regretted, remains in MS. in the Auchinleck Library.
A.
There is lost, there is lost
On the Catholic coast,
A quack of the college's quorum,
Tho' his name be not shown,
PASQUILS, &c. 63
Yet the man may be known,
By his opus viginti annorum.
B.
How can he be lost
On the Catholic coast,
Who lately but turned Catholic ;
Unless it be clear
You can make him appeal-
Both Catholic and diabolic ?
Since his name is not shown
How can he be known
One of a learn'd college's quorum,
'Mong learn'd men to be,
What pretensions has he ?
His opus speaks no such things for him.
A.
With each wind he hath steer'd,
And hath often so veered,
That at last he split on ambition.
While the Whigs were in vogue,
He was th' arrantest rogue
Of that damnable tribe of sedition.
B.
It may be admired
What winds he hath steered,
64 PASQUILS, &c.
But not that he split on ambition ;
It was still my opinion,
For him to be a minion,
To be statesman was too high a station.
Pray do not suspect
That by this I reflect
On the statesman's choice of his change :
I'll not meddle with that,
Tho' I well know what
May be thought to be fully as strange.
If he proved an arragant rogue
While the Whigs were in vogue
Fore his being more rogue (there was reason)
His projects are greater,
His pretensions are better,
And he'll not be condemned for treason.
A.
Day and night did he work
For erecting a kirk,
And gathering gold to a preacher ;
But he turn'd as soon
As the Whigs were undone,
And left the poor desolate teacher.
i The corner of the page is torn away in the MS.
PASQUILS, &c. 65
B.
By the kirk he erected,
By the gold he collected,
By all that fanatical rabble,
He ne'er could expect
Such wealth and respect
As he doth from the whore of Babel.
A.
From the Whigs he did come
Not the straightway to Rome,
But under our prelates found shelter :
He took the great test,
Which he perjur'd at last,
For which he deserveth a halter.
From the Whigs he did run
In a by-way to Rome,
But ne'er from our prelates found shelter.
They could not endure
To protect or secure
Such rogues as he from the halter.
For his taking the test,
Which he forswore at last,
E
66 PASQUILS, &c.
A pardon he'll get from the Pope ,*
But though he so do,
I confess it to be true,
He very well merits a rope.
'Tis not the way to appear
A true cavalier
To quit the protestant road ;
To the king, I avow
He can neVer be true,
That so oft hath played booby with God. *
1 Pitcairn's religious principles were supposed not to be the
most orthodox. The suspicion of his infidelity was the cause of
his being involved in a lawsuit, (reported by Fouritainhall 18th
July 1712) with Mr James Webster, one of the ministers of Edin-
burgh, who had represented the Doctor as a Deist. The ground
on which the charge proceeded was, that, while there was a scramble
in an auction of books for " Philostratus' Life of Apollonius Tya-
naeus, " one regretted that none were bidding for the Bible ! the
Doctor scoffingly answered " It was no wonder it stuck in their
hands, for terbum Dei manet in ceternum."" The Lords con-
sidered this process was managed with much zeal, and that Mr
Webster was willing to give reasonable satisfaction ; therefore they
recommended to the Justice Clerk, ordinary in the cause, to en-
deavour to settle the parties amicably."
I
PASQUILS, &c. 67
XV.
, 1690.
A Common Prayer Book for all those that fain
11 would have one, but dare not use it "
" (Borrow this) Litany. "
From underminers and cut throats,
And those who use gun-pouder-plots ;
From those who subtile counsel gives,
All for to take their neighbours lives ;
From those who are sworn to do evil,
And have their reward from the Devil ;
From those that swear for to be rich,
Although they rob it off the church ;
From those who by pretence of grace,
Do cheat their neighbour of their place ;
From those that mock at the good Cause,
And laugh at all the Holy Laws ;
.From those that swear, and think it not,
And in their heart there is a plot ;
From Grumbletonians who desire
That Popery may rule this Empire,
Good Lord deliver us.
68 PASQUILS, &c.
From those that counsel our King and Queen,
To slave their subjects, as they have been,
Let their last end at Tyburn be seen.
Amen. x
XVI.
1690.
BY J(AMES) P(ATERSON.)
From all these apparent Atheists
Call'd Protestants, defending Papists ;
From oaths so made against the Pope,
That brings true Protestants to rope ; -
1 This Litany and the ensuing one were found in " The New
Almanack^ or New Prognostication, for the year of our Lord
1690," "by an expert Mathematician," (James Paterson.) Of
these Almanacks, a most curious collection, commencing 1685, and
ending in 1710, was presented to the Society of Scotish Anti-
quaries, by James Swan, Esq. W. S. In the one for 1692, occurs
the following advertisement. " The Ancient Clidesdail Society,
called the Whinbush, is now revived, and kept at Robert Clarksons,
in the south side of the Land Market, (in Edinburgh), 'a little be-
low the Weigh-houseiwell, every Friday, from 6 till 8 at night. "
PASQUILS, &c. 69
From Friers, Priests, and Jesuits,
And these new cut-throat proselytes ;
From all those of a wavering mind,
That change their judgment x like the wind ;
From those who live by cheats and quirks,
And those who organs bring to kirks ;
From those that useth holy water,
And secretly, their beads do patter ;
From cuckolds that wear gilded horns,
And those who raise the price of corns ;
And those their neighbours that backbite,
And in the same do take delight ;
From those that lie for scant of news,
From those in Athol that wear trews ;
From those that hate our King and Queen,
Or any way molest their reign,
Libera nos Domine.
1 Religion.
70 PASQUILS,
XVJJ.
ttjurtt tfte 3&xvl xrf 38r0*rtmHnmi
atrtr Dufte xrf <8}tt*otgl)m*ib
tft* jprtttnlrit tfim xrf
(From Mylne's MSS.)
Quoth honest Broadalbion to the son of George Blair, x
" Since the gear is agoeing, let's e'en take our share.
Should the scarecrows of loyalty, heaven or hell,
Make a man such a fool as forget him nain-sell. "
" Na, be God, quoth the Duke, we'll be no longer sham'd
I'd rather see all the kings of Christendome damn'd.
Let Tories or Whigs knaves or aitheists us call,
My estate is my God, my King, and my all. " *
1 Id est, Duke Queensberrie. R. M.
fi 'In Robert Ker's collected works, occurs the ensuing curious
poetical account of the " Spring and Rise of the House of Queens-
berry," occasioned by seeing Drumlangrig, built by the first Duke.
I came some further on my way
A fair palace I did espy !
I said what way was this foundation laid,
By the oppression of some lairds :
PASQUILS, &c. 71
Says Lithgow, " you know my father's old way,
Shall we be trampled by dogs ? is all I can say.
Then down the river, David, I'le follow you tuo,
And forget all the Bishops of all long agoe. "
Drumlanrig persues with ane air that's obledging,
His uncle's true honour, 3 and his father's religion.
The superstructure was carried on,
By shedding of the blood of men !
And then the capestone its put on,
And this does make men sigh and groan.
Altho' that house should reach the sky,
God's judgment will make some men cry ;
My Lord Drumlenrick is in his stile,
That Traitor did Scotland beguile :
If you would read the coat of arms,
You'll see he's com'd of bastard bairns :
He is but of a bastard sort, .
And they'll prove nothing but as Sots.
There is some parks they have inclos'd,
And many families they raz'd ;
They have join'd house and house together,
There's a curse upon him, and some other.
He has a monument at Disdear :
Himself shall become one some year.
5 His infamous uncle was General Douglas, the first Duke's,
brother, remarkable as a turncoat, his mother was a Douglas,
Vide Peerage, Article Duke of Douglas.
72 PASQUILS, &c.
Let the King save Namure, or be mockt by his foes,
I'd rather be here with my Lady Montrose.
But thou George, Lord of Tarbat, art a plain honest man,
Never works, nor plots mischiefe let say it who can
Cares as much for a God, as for Mahomet's pigeon,
Yet canst talk, like old wives, of the French and Religion.
Silly Crawford was nothing to you, mighty men,
He slew but his thousands, you have your ten.
Why should Tories live free from death and damnation,
More than the first peers and wise men of the nation ?
XVIII.
Jbbxrrt gwrtttgft
From Wodrow's MS.
From our new kings x vicegerent that blustering Hector,
More fitt to be a factor or custome collector,
Who huffs and adjourns us like Noll the protector,
Libera nos Domino.
i Duke of Hamilton. Sec the First Book of Pasquils, p. 34.
PASQUILS, &c. 73
From our late king abjureing, sole knight of the garter, *
Who loyalty and honor for proffit doth barter,
Who for his religione will scarce die a martyr,
Libera, &c.
From him whose atchierements were ne're worth a louse,
Who furiously cross'd the designs of the house,
Who made our big mountain bring forth but a mouse,
Libera, &c.
From a Laodicean's hodge-podge reformation,
Who banish'd dear prelacy out of the nation,
Then left our church sitting without a foundation,
Libera, &c.
From him whose ambition would rule all alone,
Who turns with all parties, yet is trusted by none,
Whose fall few wise men will be found to bemoan,
Libera, &c.
That it may please thee to restore
Our wonted courage yet once more,
That we may tame this foming boare,
Quiesumus.
That for religion we may stand,
And freedom of our native land,
And all may fall who these withstand,
Quresumus.
1 Probably Jaines D. of Queensberry, made a Knight of the
Garter, 1701.
74 / PASQUILS, &c.
That Satan's agents these years past,
Who Israel held in bondage fast,
Hainan's reward may find at last,
Quaesumus.
That peace and truth may meet again,
Among us ever to remain,
Let those desires never prove vain,
XIX.
(From Mylne's MSS.)
False Stair, lament ! Look, look what thou hast done !
Lament thy country ! lament thy own estate !
Look, look, by doeing, how thou art undone :
Lament thy fall ! Lament thy change of state !
Thy faith thou broke ; by thee our freedom's gone.
See, see, too soon, what thou laments too late.
O thou that wert so many men, nay, all,
Abridg'd in dust, how hes thy desp'rate fall,
Distroyed thy seed, distroyed thyself with all.
R. M.
PASQUILS, &c. 75
XX.
tite lims totrfftrtr for acntr tgme
Ig 83eat 0f tfte
What follows was printed in Law's Memorials, but is partly
now corrected from a MS. of Lord Fountainhall.
See Pasquils, Book 1st, p. 43, and Book 2d, p. 69,
for particulars relative to this remarkable fe-
male, the Lady Ashton of the " Bride
of Lammermoor. "
Neus, neus, my muse, on Friday being said,
It is confirm'd, the Witch of Endor's dead,
And men wonder what kinde devil thus
Off such a monster hath bereaved us ;
Now Cerberus at the door of hell, cries out,
With hideous noise, and many a grevious shout,
Open your doors, you devils, and prepare
A room that's warm for honest Lady Stair.
Shall now my muse be longer silent then,
When every poet occupyes his pen :
Come on, come on, be quick, its no abuse
To whip about the Devil of Glenluce.
76 PASQUILS, &c.
Cry out for joy, of whatsoever station
Whoe's for the poor and welfare of the nation,
Let peace possess your minds, your will you've gotten,
My Lady Stair is dead, and almost rotten :
Be glad and joyful at this luckie death,
Great Melvin with his faction, Leven and Raith,
Who for your sakes at Court did so prevail
To make a Secretary Privie Seal.
Rejoice old clubbers, Rosse and Skelmorlie,
Dalrymple's faction now hath lost ane eye :
The moon shall shortly change, be glad and merrie,
The Lady Stair is over Charon's feme.
Johnstoun rejoice with your friend Ormistoun,
And you Sir William, x with Duke Hamiltoun :
That the cat that crost the cushen in the church
Is dead, and left her kitelings in the lurch ;
A strange unluckie fate to power befell,
Which sent her thus a cateing into hell.
Will Baillie then with Commissar Monroe
Rejoice, for Auntie hes got the fatal bloe :
She will perplex nor trouble you no more,
Hells turn-keey now hath shut the fatal door.
Goe to now Mrs Turnbull when you please,
And sit upon your own coat tail at ease ;
Goe sit on your coat tail, for weel I wott
The dog is dead that toar your petticoat.
i Hamilton.
PASQUILS, &c. 77
Court Parasites put on your mourning weed,
Hells plagued Emissaries, for she's dead
Who was the greatest stoup in all the nation
To Jamie Wylies cursed generation.
Now Lady Crichton you must steer your stumps,
Your flying days are done, put on your pumps.
That Stair shall shortly fall here is a token,
Your strongest pillar's lately fallen and broken ;
Though it so very long has stood a gie,
Yet surely many shall its ruin see
And shortly, great the fall thereof shall be.
THE EPITAPH.
Here lyes our aunties Coffine, I am sure,
But where her body is I cannot tell,
Most men affirm they cannot well tell where,
Unless both soul and body be in hell.
Its just indeed if all be true that's said,
The Witch of Endor was a wicked sinner,
And if her coffine in the grave be laid,
Her bodie's roasted for the Devil's dinner.
78 PASQUILS, &c.
XXI.
tt tht ZHnimt parliament
From a MSi belonging to J. A. Maconochie, Esq.
Our Senate has had many (a) fiery debate,
About settling the kirk and securing the state,
But if its decrees will determine their fate,
They're wiser than I can tell*
It's a split into parties and different factions,
And managed by secret caballing arid factions,
What the public will gain by these cunning transactions^
He is wiser, &c.
Each party pretends they're for serving the crown,
And for that dear interest they'd renounce all their own,
But who speaks sincerely, or who plays the loun,
He is wiser, &c.
The staunch revolutioners pretend all their care
Is securing religion by a Protestant heir,
But if they'd vote for a Papist who offered them mair,
He is wiser, &c.
PASQUILS. &c. 79
All the pretence of the Torian class
Is that laws for our honour and interest may pass,
But whether or no there's a snake in the grass,
He is wiser, &c.
The crosier and crown to fix sicut ante,
Is th noble pretence of squadrone volante,
But whether they'l prove brigada constante,
He is wiser, &c.
If the proto deserter who now rules the roast, T
Be true to his country in his eminent post,
Or if he serves England at old Albion's cost,
He is wiser, &c.
If the traitor by whom our trade was undone, *
Instead of repenting be still sinning on,
Or if he'l do something his crimes to attone.
He is wiser, &c.
If the border protester 3 be as wise as he's bold,
If his zeal be inspired by conscience or gold,
Or if he'l turn stout or honest when old,
He is wiser, &c.
i Duke of Qucensberry. 2 Earl of Seafield.
3 Probably, Annandale.
80 PASQUILS, &c.
If the Highland seal keeper 4 deal faithful and just,
Or if all having cheated, any party should trust,
A man who is honest, but when he needs must,
He is wiser, &c.
If the gallant and great but mysterious Duke, s
Designe the true heir his (own) kingdom should bruik,
Or if coin and commission be the bait for his hook,
He is wiser, &c.
If the traitor spawned Duke, 6 and the hackney whore lover,
His soul and estate will redeem by Hanover,
Or if both are too deeply engaged to recover,
He is wiser, &c.
If the charming young Marquis 7 with the innocent face
Will equal the glories of his honored race,
Or if honour and Presbytrie can thrive in one place,
He is wiser, &c.
If the east country Marquis 8 with the politick air,
Will attone for the crimes of Monsieur son Pere,
Or if of the spoil he's but seeking a share,
He is wiser, &c.
4 Athol. 5 Hamilton. 6 Argyle. 7 Montrose. 8 Tweedale.
PASQUILS, &c. 81
If the Marquiss Dragoon 9 bona fide doth move
In religion or loyalty, friendship or love,
Or if traytors ex tradice can honest men prove,
He is wiser, c.
a If the crafty old Peer, 10 whom both parties suspect,
With his youthful bravados and seeming neglect,
Designs to crown all by a finishing trick,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Gard de Corps Count, " with the very dull air
Of prudence and politicks has got a good share,
Or if his head and his coffers be equally bare,
He is wiser, &c.
If the crouch back't Count, x 2 and cunning deceiver,
Will follow the steps of his once worthy father,
Or if he'l be honest, or loyal, or neither,
He is wiser, &c.
Q Lothian. ,
a In another copy thus :
If the crafty old Peer who keeps the black box,
Will go through and not bring his friend upon blocks,
Or if he has most of the serpent or fox,
He 13 wiser, &c.
i o Tarbat. 1 1 Perhaps Crawford. 1 Mar.
F
82 PASQUILS, &c.
b If the Count 1J who of yore at St Germains has been,
From trimming and treason has kept himself clean,
Or if he be a leper both without and within,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Count * 4 who married the coquette his daughter,
Will by his intrigues afford us more laughter,
Or if he'l be wise and more prudent hereafter,
He is wiser, &c.
If the long chin'd Count 15 who murdered his brother,
Did atone for his crimes by's vote for Hanover,
Or if doing the one was as ill as the other,
He is wiser, &c.
If the madcap his son lfi will fill's father's place,
By acting the crimes of his villanous race,
Or if these be the signs of your true babes of grace,
He is wiser, &c.
b In another MS. it runs thus:
If the Saint German Earl with the skurf on his skin,
Designed any harm by his frank coming in, &c.
1 3 Balcarras. 1 4 Wigton, Lord Wigton divorced his first
wife for an amour with Lord Belhaven (1708.) Vide Commissary
Court Record She had previously eloped with the Duke of Mon-
trose, (Carstair's Letters), but her kind Lord forgave her.
1 5 Melville. i 6 Leven.
PASQUILS, &c. 83
If the Merchian Count 1? who stood out so long,
Has stumbled on treason amid all this throng,
Or if he be willing his treason to own,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Count I8 who the eldest baton doth sway,
Be as good at politicks as making of hay,
Or if Madam thinks most of what Monsieur doth say,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Count I9 who the second batton doth wear,
Be as free of debaucherie as treason or fear,
And as chaste as he's thoughtless in getting of gear,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Count ao who in Flanders had used to carouse,
At home be considering what party to choose,
Or if constant debauch any thinking allows,
He is wiser, &c.
If the Count " who proposed the abjuring his prince,
Be still on a level with the Monarch of France,
Or if God has deprived the rogue of his sense,
He is wiser, &c.
1 7 Hume, i 8 Errol. 1 9 Marishall. 3 o Sutherland.
21 Marchmont.
F 2
84 PASQUILS, &c.
If the Peer M that thought murder would for loyalty pass,
Has been guilty of worse among the Hanover class,
Or if guilt can be fixed on a rattle brained ass,
He is wiser, &c.
If Roxburgh the young, the rich, and the wise,
Be true to his country, and parents despise,
Or if Saltoun and Johnstone has taught him the guise,
He is, &c.
If the potent red Earl, whose badge is the rose, * 3
By the Rumplean race be led by the nose,
Or if patent be the bribe the country to expose,
He is, &c.
If the new mounted Earl of antient repute,
Plays the rogue for little, and gets to the boot,
And thinks by what means his estate to recruit,
He is, &c.
If old Jamie Wylie * 4 to his mistress prove true,
Or as he did's master, betray her not too,
Or if catching of money be all in his view,
He is wiser, &c.
2 2 Perhips Breadalbane. 2 3 Probably Roseberry.
2 4 Sir James Stewart, Lord Advocate.
PASQUILS, &c. 85
If Saltoun J * for freedom and property cry,
While tyrant may be read in his tongue and his eye ;
If shagrin and oppression did give him the lie,
His tenants and servants can tell.
If the Galloway Earl hath mounted the stairs,
To get places of profit for himself and his heirs,
If providing it be not for his country he cares,
He is wiser, &c.
XXI.
ISarl ot
ins watte l&ujft Stttmirall, mrtr
tfte UnrI* xrf ittbw
fftmth 1706.
From Mylne's MSS.
Let all our forraign enemies
Attack us if they dare-a,
Since Weems is Nepten of our seas,
And Leven the God of war-a.
1 * Andrew Fletcher of Salton.
86 PASQUILS, &c.
Let the bold hect'ring King of France
Send out his mighty fleet-a ;
Weems with his tritons shall advance,
And all the navy meet-a.
The triton Hamilton shall show
His skill in sea affairs- a ;
He'l sink the great Tholouse, and blow
Their vessells up by paire-a.
Gordon, when thus the fight's begun,
With Campbell shall advance-a ;
They'le sink a ship with every gun,
And chase the rest to France-a.
But if our English neighbours dare,
The river Tweed to cross-a,
Leven the thundering God of War,
Shall drive them back with loss-a.
Lothian the great shall lead the van,
And Grant bring up the rear-a ;
Grant bred in arms, a valiant man.
And Lothian a worthie peer-a.
PASQUILS, &c. 87
XXII.
JWtmrv J^fftiritffl Votfeg.
i.
A GAME AT CAIRDS, 1637-8.
From Balfour's MSS.
We are a game at cairds, ye counsell dail,
The lawers shuffell, and the clergie cut ;
The King wins from the loussing commonweill,
The Courte keipes staikes, the nobillis let and peel.
Tlie game is in the stocke, the play proves jumpe,
Tho' guid the game, praerogative is trumpe.
2.
THE NEW GAME AT GARDES.
From Balfour's MSS.
The staikes 3 crounes, four Nations gamstere are,
Ther's 3 to one, and zet ther's none yat darre
88 PASQUILS, &c.
Take thesse grate oddes, the causse is ther's they say,
The 4 knowes both our stock, and cardes wee play ;
Thesse turn ye oddes, wich makes some gamesters think
Wee ar in iest, wee play our cards and winke.
The sett goes hard quhen gamesters think it best,
That 3 does buy, ye 4 does sett ye rest.
3.
EPIGRAM ON PROVOST AIKENHEAD.
From a 4>to MS. in the Library of Robert Grahame Esq.
That which is said, is falsely said,
To wit, his head of Aiken timber made ;
For had his head been but composed so,
His fyrie nose had burn't it long ago. *
i To tills jcu-d'esprit is prefixed this notice. " Robert Lighton,
after Bishop of Dumblane, was extruded the College of Edin-
burgh, for this Epigram on Provest Aikenhead. "
PASQUILS, &c. 89
4.
ON THE BISHOPS, 1638.
From Balfour's MSS.
Thesse men yat reull'd God's house, and dretf his rent,
Why gave they not accompt ? Faith all was spent ;
And destitute of Houpe, discharge to make,
They with the vniust steuart counseill take.
A JESUIT S CREED.
From Balfour's MSS.
I hold as faith, Quhat England's church al-
lowes,
Quhat Rome's church saith My conscience disavowes.
Quher the king's head, The people no schame, x
The folks mislead Yat holdes the pope supreme.
Quher the altar's drest The service scairsse dewine,
The people's blest With table bread and wine.
He's hot an asse Quho the communion flies,
That schunnes the messe He's catholike and wise.
1 " That church schall have no schame. " Grahame's MS.
2 There is seruice divine. " Grahame's MS.
90 PASQUILS, &c.
6.
A DIALOGUE BETWIXT THE LAIRD OF BRODIE AND
LILIAS BRODIE, ANENT KING WILLIAM,
FRO AND CON.
LAIRD OF BROADLAND AND L1LIAS BRODIE.
(Mylne's MSS.)
B. Here lyes the greatest prince ere Europe bred,
L. Had he not James his father banished.
13. A most affectionate and loveing prince,
L. Had not ambition thrust his uncle hence.
B. A most religious prince and most devout,
L. Had he not crown and mitter both thrust out.
B. The chastest ere on British throne did mount.
L. Of him mine heir l can give the best account.
B. A most religious keeper of his word,
L. His manifestoes still are on record.
B. He never promised once and after broke it,
L. Save that he fought with articles in his pocket.
B. No innocent blood in all his reign was shed,
L. Save all Glenco in one night murdered.
l Benting (Bentink Earl of Portland) * * * The rest of old
Robert Mylne's note, as to this person, is too indelicate for inser-
tion.
PASQUILS, &c. 91
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B. He saved our country, and advanced our trade,
L. Witness such product we from Darien had.
B. He acted still with Parliament's advice,
L. Witness the private articles of peace. z
B. His ministers were still most true and just,
L. Argyle and Stuart 3 for avarice and lust.
B. But since he's gone, God save our Sov. Lady.
L. Amen, sayes Lilias, she had wont to pray for dady.
7.
ON THE PARLIAMENT JUNE 1705, AGAINST ARGYLE,
AND IN PRAISE OF DUKE HAMILTON.
BY MR FINNIE. l
From Mylne's MSS.
The monster in King James the Fourth his time *
Was the great wonder of this northern clime.
It had two heads and bodies two unite,
The senate is a greater wonder yett :
It hath two heads, one bodie in two split,
The one head is a monster, par ma foy,
2 Of Ryswick. R. M. 3 Advocat. R. M,
i For an account of Finnic, see First Book of Pasquils Pre-
fatory Notice, pages 10 and 11.
- An account of this monster will be found in Pitscottie.
92 PASQUILS, &c.
A compound of a female and a boy ,
Which if we scripture rightly understand,
Prognosticats a curse upon this land.
The boy, and his brib'd squadron, can't escape
His predecessor's exit or a rape.
They all deserve to die a violent way,
Who both their country and their King betray.
The other head is the brave Antelop,
Tho' enemie to Bishops and the Pope,
He, and his noble cavalcade, designe
To right their native country, and the King.
Heav'ns prosper their efforts ! and us rescue
From English thraldom and Hanover too.
LYNES ON THE FIRST DUKE OF MONTROSE.
Mylne's MSS.
Who can believe thy meanes and suppose
Thy pigmey soul sprang from the Great Montrose.
He bravely fought, and vanquish'd, to maintaine
What thou doest stryve to sink, but stryv'st in vain.
For if there's truth in heaven, as sure there must,
God will support the race of James the Just.
PASQUILS, &c. 93
Could tliy brave ancestor unlock the womb
Of his unspotted everlasting tomb,
And, raising up his head, unveil his eyes,
He'd view thy stains with horror and surpryse ;
And stabb'd with the dishonour of thy crime,
Would beg to leave the world a second time.
Base miscreant to thy prince, thy soul too vile,
Denotes the genuine issue of Argyle.
For weill we know the lust of Calvin's train
(Thy mother's god) makes the conjecture plain.
Hence we conclude to quench her holy fire,
Some pious Campbell must have been thy sire. *
i This bitter, but able satire, on a most respectable and ex
ccllent individual, just shows how unfairly party spirit deals even
with those whose characters are altogether unexceptionable. As
an antidote, it may be worth while to give Macky's opinion of his
Grace. " He inherits all the great qualities of these two families,
" (Rothes and Montrose), with a sweetness of behaviour which
" charms all those who know him ; hath improved himself in most
" foreign courts ; is very beautiful in his person, and about twenty.
" five years old. "p. 192.
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