Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 1/Extract from "A Mock Poem upon the Expedition of the Highland Host"

Extract

From "A Mock Poem upon the Expedition of the Highland Host; by Col. Cleland. Edit. 1697.

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When this was done their ranks were broken;
Some ran for dring their drought to slocken:
Some were chasing hens and cocks,
Some were loosing horse from yocks;
Some with snapwarks, some with bowes,
Were charging reers of loops and ewes;
Their stomacks so on edge were set,
That all was fish came in the nett;
Trumpets sounded, skeens were glanceing,
Some were Tonald Cowper danceing:
Some cryed, here to her Laird and Lady,
Some to her mother and her daddie,
And Sir King too—if the Laird please—
Then up with plaids * * * * *
Some were stealing, some were riveing,
Some were wives and lasses grieving:
Some for cold did chack and chatter;
Some from plaids were wringing water:
Yea to be short, moe different postures,
Thau's sewed on hangings, beds, and bolstures:
Moe various actings modes and stances,
Than's read in Poems or Romances.
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