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'More various actings, modes and stances,
Than's read in poems or romances.———
Pipes were playing, drums were beating,
Some snizeing, from their fellows getting.———
Trumpets sounded, skeens were glancing;
Some were Tonald Cowper dancing[1].———
Than's read in poems or romances.———
Pipes were playing, drums were beating,
Some snizeing, from their fellows getting.———
Trumpets sounded, skeens were glancing;
Some were Tonald Cowper dancing[1].———
He alludes to the inhabitants of Clydesdale who had signed the bond of the Covenanters, in the following terms;
For Clisdale's bonders, as ye ken,
Are scarcely reckoned amongst men:
The tumid Earle, papist Haggs,
An atheist Jew, to save his baggs.—
Bedla, with Towcorss and Woodhall,
John Thomson's man, plague on them all[2].———
Are scarcely reckoned amongst men:
The tumid Earle, papist Haggs,
An atheist Jew, to save his baggs.—
Bedla, with Towcorss and Woodhall,
John Thomson's man, plague on them all[2].———
Cleland, like a true Presbyterian, renounces the inspiration of the Grecian muses, and the far-famed waters of Parnassus; for, says he,
There's als much vertue, sonce, and pith,
In Annan, or the water of Nith,
Which quietly slips by Dumfries,
Als any water in all Greece:
For there, and several other places,
About mill-dams, and green brae faces,
Both elrich elfs, and brownies stayed,
And green-gowned fairies daunced and played.
In Annan, or the water of Nith,
Which quietly slips by Dumfries,
Als any water in all Greece:
For there, and several other places,
About mill-dams, and green brae faces,
Both elrich elfs, and brownies stayed,
And green-gowned fairies daunced and played.
