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 learned and well approved generous Gentleman,
Andrew Plummer Laird of Midlestead.
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Dedicated to the learned and well approved generous Gentleman, Andrew Plummer Laird of Midlestead.
This Pamphlet I send to your view,Is to let your Worship ken,
It's known to be the first Issue
Of my dull idle Brain,
It's known as yet, I could ne're write,
My reading is but small,
For refuge, I flee to your hands,
In hopes you'l warrand all;
Shepherds I thought were three times eight,
Appear'd into my Dream,
Wherefore one to you I dedicat,
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He in Analshope doth dwell,
His Mame's Michael Andison;
That Shepherd Swain will no man wrong,
In Religion he is strong,
The foulest Feinds assume the fairest Forms,
The fairest Fields doth feed the foulest Toad,
The Sea at Calmest most subject is to Storms,
In choicest Fruit the Canker makes abode;
So in the Shop of all believing trust,
Lyes Toads invenom'd treason couched fast,
Till like a Storm his toothless thoughts out-burst,
Who Canker-like had lyen in trusts repose;
For as the fire within the flint's confin'd,
In deepest Ocean still unquencht remains,
Even so the false, through truest seeming mind,
Despight of truth the Treason still retains,
Yet maugure Treason, Trust deserveth trust,
And Trust survives when Treason dies accurst,
Since Michael Andison hath great store of Wool'n-fleece,
I wish they more abound than Jasons did in Greece.
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