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All covenants, all acts and laws
That favour'd the fanatic cauſe:
Himſelf he did to me ſurrender,
And for a time liv'd in great ſplendor,
Beloved well of all my friends,
Till at the laſt he loſt his means,
And fell in want and poverty,
Which made him to the Abbey fly:
He who the Covenants did burn,
A cheating bankrupt did become;
He loſt his ſenſes, turn'd demented,
And none but me his caſe lamented;
And at the end of all did die,
Bemoaned by no man but me:
I did him viſit in diſtreſs,
Where he is now you’ll eas'ly gueſs.
Turner did Galloway invade,
And took from many what they had;
He ſpared neither old nor young,
But plunder'd all where he did come:
Moſt ſavagely he did them treat,
And without mercy ſome did beat.
He ſpoil'd that country cruelly,
And acted like a man for me.
A very helliſh life he led,
As in my cave he had been bred:
Carſpbairn can well teſtify,
The curſing and profanity,
The outrages committed there,
(The half of which might file the air)
By Turner and his company,
Which wonderfully pleaſed me.
Dalziel, who fought at Pentland-hill,
