X. To-morrow in the church to wed "Impatient both prepare: * But know, false man, and know, fond maid, "Poor Lucy will be there. XI. "Then bear my corfé, ye comrades dear, "The bridegroom blithe to meet; "He in his wedding-trim so gay, "I in my winding sheet." She fpake, fhe dy'd, her corfe was borne, She in her winding-fheet. XIII. What then were COLIN's dreadful thoughts; XIV. Compaffion, fhame, remorse, despair, The damps of death bedew'd his brow, OL. It C XV. From 34 XV. From the vain bride, a bride no more, XVI. He to his Lucy's new-made grave, XVII. Oft at this place the conftant.hind XVIII. But, fwain forfworn, whoe'er thou art, Remember COLIN's dreadful fate, AN ΑΝ ΙΜΙΤΑΤΙΟΝ O F THE PROPHECY OF NEREUS. From HORACE, Book III. Ode XXV. Dicam infigne, recens, adhuc Indictum ore alio. Exfomnis fupet Evias, Non fecus in jugis Hebrum profpiciens, & nive candidam Thracen, ac pede barbaro Luftratam Rhodopen. By the Same. HOR. S Mar his round one morning took, (Whom fome call earl, and fome call duke) And his new brethren of the blade, Shiv'ring with fear and froft, farvey'd, a John Erskine, the tenth earl of Mar, Secretary of State for Scotland, and one of the Commiffioners of the Union, in the reign of Queen Anne. In the month of August 1715, he drew together his adherents, and proclaimed the Pretender, King. His forces continued to encrease, until they amounted to between fix and feven thousand men, and with these he engaged the Duke of Argyle at the head of the King's troops, at Sheriffs Moor, on the 13th of November. The victory was claimed on both fides, b He had been created a duke by the Pretender, On Perth's bleak hills he chanc'd to spy With bristled hair and visage blighted, Beheld the chief with back fo round, And chequer'd plad become their prey, In vain the hungry mountaneers Or, Or, while their neighbours were asleep, What boots thy high-born hot of beggars, с d In vain thy lads around thee bandy, Douglas 3, who draws his lineage down Mr. Thomas Forster, jun. of Etherton in the county of Northumberland. He raifed troops for the Pretender in the year 1715, and was among those who furrendered to the King's forces at Prefton. Being committed to Newgate, he had the good fortune to make his escape from thence before he was brought to his trial. d This nobleman was very active at this time, in defence of the reigning family. Archibald, Earl of Ilay, afterwards Duke of Argyle. f The Duke of Athol. The Duke of Douglas, then a minor. 1 C 3 Fiery |