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arms of these troops. We will do more: as we have no prisons on these wild mountains, we will even let him go on his parole, on condition that he swear never to lift arms against the religion and the liberties of his country.' A loud burst of applause re-echoed from the ranks; and, after a long pause in deep silence, the army sung the following verses of a psalm:—
"There arrows of the bow he brake;
The shield, the sword, the war,
More glorious thou than hills of prey,
More excellent art far.
Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd.
They slept their sleep outright;
And none of those their hands did find,
That were the men of might," &c.
When the report was made to Claverhouse, he gave the word with a savage ferocity. 'Their blood be on their own heads, be 'No quarters' the word this day.[1] His fierce dragoons raised a yell, and 'No quarters' re-echoed from rank to rank, while they galloped down the mountain's side. It is stated that Burley was heard to say 'Then be it so—even let their be 'no quarters'-at least in my wing of the host So God send a meeting,' cried he aloud, 'with that chief under the white plume.
- ↑ This fact I find stated also in the "Scots Worthies, p. 468 Edin. edition on of 1812.
