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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Dedicated to the worthy and much respected Gentleman, Francis
Gladstains of Whitlaw.
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Dedicated to the worthy and much respected Gentleman, Francis Gladstains of Whitlaw.
Most worthy Sir, do not disdain,That I my Dream so oft explain;
Unto your hands I do it commit,
The Issue of Barren Wit,
A great deall more from me might appear,
Within this seventy and two year,
But what is past, I cannot now recall,
I hope ye'l think this makes amends for all,
I never was at Shool, I cannot write,
Pardon my Lines though they be unperfyte,
The best of Gallants indeed may controul,
A wise man will ever countenance a fool,
Although in wrong he will not bear him up,
Yet he will laugh at his foolish fate;
The four and twenty of my Dream,
William Grieve of Common-side was one,
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He is an honest man and true;
A worthy Shepherds Swain, who lives upon his Store,
And relieves the Poor and Needy, as I have said before.
I wish his Golden-fleece with him may still remain,
While I fetch Jasons Fleece from Greece into Scotland.
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