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thy Forts shall be brought low and desolate. Leith shall be brought to servitude, Dalkeith to poverty; only they shall reserve a day in the week, to spend what they gain the rest of the days. Pharisees shall build altars in thee and broils will continue for a time in thee. But there shall rise a noble Buck, whose family will be had in great esteem; their kyth and kin shall be much honoured.
Musselburgh of old hath been recorded, and to its honour it may be said,
Musselburgh it was a Burgh,
when Edinburgh was none:
And Musselburgh will be a Burgh,
when Edinburgh is done.
As for Preston, thy fields shall run with blood; and the day will come, when thy inhabitants shall dig for their living in the bowels of the earth: And likewise thou shalt make clay thy principal trade; and thy salt shall be well taxed, thy store-houses keys shall be kept out of thy possession.
Port-Seton by the sea,
Heirless shall thy lands be,
And Winton-house shall not be free
Of ruins, caus'd by perjury.
That noble family yet will bloom,
When tyranny has got its doom.
North-Berwick and its ancient Law,
A land mark at the sea I saw:
I heard of thee, and do declare,
Thou's be planted with an Orkney heir.
