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."
XII.

She fpake, fhe dy'd, her corfe was borne,
The bridegroom blithe to meet;
He in his wedding-trim fo gay,

She in her winding-fheet.

XIII.

What then were COLIN's dreadful thoughts;
How were these nuptials kept?
The bride-men flock'd round Lucy dead,
And all the village wept.

XIV.

Compaffion, fhame, remorse, despair,
At once his bofom fwell:

The damps of death bedew'd his brow,
He groan'd, he fhook, he fell.

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From the vain bride, a bride no more,
The varying crimson fled;
When, ftretch'd befide her rival's corfe,
She faw her lover dead.

XVI.

He to his Lucy's new-made grave,
Convey'd by trembling fwains,
In the fame mould, beneath one fod,
For-ever now remains.

XVII.

Oft at this place the conftant.hind
And plighted maid are feen
With garlands gay, and true-love knots
They deck the facred green.

XVIII.

But, fwain forfworn, whoe'er thou art,
This hallow'd ground forbear!

Remember COLIN's dreadful fate,
And fear to meet him there.

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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
An aged wizard fix foot high,

With bristled hair and visage blighted,
Wall-ey'd, bare-haunch'd, and fecond-fighted,
The grizly fage in thought profound

Beheld the chief with back fo round,
Then roll'd his eye-balls to and fro
O'er his paternal hills of fnow,
And into thefe tremendous fpeeches
Broke forth the prophet without breeches.
Into what ills betray'd by thee,
This ancient kingdom do I fee!
Her realms unpeopled and forlorn!
Wae's me! that ever thou wert born!
Proud English loons (our clans o'ercome)
On Scottish pads fhall amble home;
I fee them drefs'd in bonnets blue,
(The fpoils of thy rebellious crew)
I fee the target caft away,

And chequer'd plad become their prey,
'The chequer'd plad to make a gown
For many a lass in London town.

In vain the hungry mountaneers
Come forth in all their warlike geers,
The fhield, the piftol, dirk, and dagger,
In which they daily wont to fwagger:
And oft have fally'd out to pillage
The hen-roots of fome peaceful village,

Or,

Or, while their neighbours were asleep,
Have carry'd off a low-land fheep,

What boots thy high-born hot of beggars,
Mac-leans, Mac-kenzies, and Mac-gregors,
With popish cut-throats, perjur'd ruffians,
And Forster's troops of raggamuffins ?

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In vain thy lads around thee bandy,
Inflam'd with bagpipe and with brandy.
Doth not bold Sutherland the trusty,
With heart fo true, and voice fo rufty,
(A loyal foul) thy troops affright,
While hoarsely he demands the fight?
Do'st thou not gen'rous Ilay dread,
The braveft hand, the wifeft head?
Undaunted do'st thou hear th' alarms
Of hoary Athol fheath'd in arms?

Douglas 3, who draws his lineage down
From thanes and peers of high renown,

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.

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