Stray Leaves from the Portfolios of Alisander the Seer, Andrew Whaup, and Humphrey Henkeckle ::

Wi' our dancing we'll raise sic a stour,
As will blind the intractable rabble;
And when they're ance mair in our power,
How we'll silence their insolent gabble.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

We'll lecture them on their misdeeds,
Their shortcomings, backslidings, errors,
And gie them most terrible screeds
About breach o' the Law and its terrors.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

We'll mak' them to kneel and obey
The Kirk, our auld Reverend Granny;
And if the vile pack mutter ‘nay,’
We'll just hand them owre to Auld Sawney.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

Thus, while for their spiritual good,
Our ‘vials of wrath’ we're out-pouring,
We'll scrimp them o' temporal food,
To keep them from playing Jeshuran.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

Though ‘Patronage’ now we decry,
And clamour against ‘Lay-Intrusion,’
That door we oursels entered by,
And not by the people's ain choosing.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

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But now we maun shut up that door,
Against wily Whig and tough Tory;
And, for our ain order, secure
Kirk-Patronage, profit, and glory.

Then hey for glebe, &c.

For our Kirk independent must be
Of the State, and ilk yirthly connection,
Except that bit yirthly thing—Fee,
To which we've nae yirthly objection.

Then hey for glebe, stipend, and manse,
And hey for the kirk wi' the steeple;
Let's try our bit clerical dance,
To quiz and bamboozle the people.

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A CLERICAL CANTICLE,

As canted by the Rev. Reel o' Bogie Ranters, at their Secret Non-Intrusion Meetings, held in their Private Room, Presbyterian Close, Auld Reekie. Communicated, by an Ear-Witness, to HUMPHREY HENKECKLE, EGG-CADGER.

As canted by the Rev. Reel o' Bogie Ranters, at their Secret Non-Intrusion Meetings, held in their Private Room, Presbyterian Close, Auld Reekie. Communicated, by an Ear-Witness, to
HUMPHREY HENKECKLE, EGG-CADGER.