A True History Of several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot In the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers. By Capt. Walter Scot, An old Souldier, and no Scholler, And one that can Write nane, But just the Letters of his Name |
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I'le turn my Stile to Rhyming Verse again;
King Kenneth the second, that Prince of high renown,
He vanquish'd the Picts, and Conquer'd their Crown,
In revenge of his Fathers death, which basely they murther'd
For which victorious Kenneth mow'd them down,
And annexed their Realm under Scotlands Crown,
The year of Grace he did their Crown annex,
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Or in the fourty six, I know not whether,
The Kingdoms they were joyn'd together,
Being the fourth or fourteenth year of his reign;
And ere the twentieth he did return
To his Mother Earth, from whence he came;
His Soul and Hope doth reach the sky,
His Fame to Titans rise did fly.
Donald the fifth succeeded his Brother then,
And lost as much as King Kenneth won,
A vitious, odious King, he play'd at swig,
Whilst he lost Scotland all to Striviling Bridge,
Yet at's beginning he did come speed,
And vanquish'd his Enemies on the South-side Tweed;
The Picts that fled amongst the English-men,
Requested Osbridge and Ella, two great Princes of England,
To move War against their Enemies in Scotland,
Both English, Brittans, Picts these Princes brought
Which Donald vanquish'd at Jedburgh,
He was so insolent after his victory,
To the River of Tweed he came with his Army,
And two ships he took with Wine and Victuals rare,
And order'd every Souldier for to have their share:
King Donald was given to variosity and greed,
With lust of Body, he could ne're be satisfied,
The whole Camp they had their Paramours,
And was full of Taverns, of Bordels, and Whoors;
They followed Carding, Dycing, and contentious trouble,
That each of them, they did kill one another.
King Osbridge having Advertisement anone,
Rais'd a new Army, and to the Scots he came;
And kill'd twenty thousand Men compleat,
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That vile King was tane, as has been said,
And in derision through the Countrey led;
At which time King Osbridge Conquer'd much land,
And that the South-parts of Scotland fand,
Assisted by the Brittans, so that he,
Caus'd Stirling Bridge the Marches for to be,
For Saxons, Brittans and English-men,
In three Kings reigns they kept that Garison,
In Stirling Castle Osbridge did money coyn;
From which the Sterling Money had it's first name;
The Scots valu'd not the Land did belong to the Pict,
But the Lands of Albion Osbridge did afflict;
Ther's Galloway, and the Isle of Man,
Was Lands of Scotland since the first King Fergus came.
So was Kyle and Carrick, all in haill,
Arron through Lennox, with the netherward of Clidsdail;
The Mers and Tiviot-dail was Picts Lands,
And so was all the three Louthians,
So was Peebles, Selkirk and Over-ward of Clidsdail;
Nithsdail, and Annandail; with the five Kirks of Eskdail,
Drunken Donald all these Lands did tyne,
But Gregorius Magnus recover'd them again,
From Gregories death, to Kenneth the thirds reign,
The Borders obey'd neither God, nor King,
Kenneth the third lov'd Deer, both Red and Fellow,
Above all Princes since King Dornadilla:
Hunting was the Sport he liked best,
For all our South-parts was Wood and Forrest,
Except here and there a Summering Plain,
Into which his Keepers did remain.
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