( 6 )
Brave Charles Stewart of renows,
The best that ever wore a crown,
For whoredom and adultery,
For incest and profanity
For drunkenness and for perjury.
He neither word nor oath regarded;
With gibbets he his friend rewarded;
When opposition he did meet.
He then did play the hypocrite,
And feign'd himself for reformation,
When he intended deformation.
At Spey and Scoon within a year,
The covenants he twice did swear;
And at Dunfermline did profess
His sorrow for his naughtiness;
But that wa all to get the crown.
That he the better might throw down
That covenanted Presbytery,
That was so opposite to me;
For afterwards he did rescind
These covenants no more to bind;
And solemnly he gave command
To burn them by the hangman's hand.
He caus'd the nations to abjure
What they call d reformation pure.
Brave Prelacy he did restore,
As it in Scotland was before.
And to this Dagon he caus'd bow
Scotsmen century to their vow.
He many a conscience did defile,
Which made me on his court to smile;
Malignants he advanced high.
'Cause they good subjects were to me.
He tolerated heresy,
