Love and grief or The death of the Sutherlands/Fy Let Us A' to the Meet'n

FY LET US A' TO THE MEET'N.

FY let us a' to the meet'n,
⁠for mony bra' lads will be there;
Explainin the wrangs of Great Britain,
⁠and pointin them out to a hair.
There will be grivances ſhown
⁠we never before kent about,
And there will be things ſet agoing,
⁠will end in the Devil I doubt.

For there a' the members hae ſworn,
⁠and pledg'd to each other their word,
That rather than want a reform,
⁠they'll try it by fire, and by ſword.
And there will be Roſs cudgel player,
⁠a fit man for fighting is he:
And there will he Donaldſon preacher,
⁠the noble Burcan o' Dundee.
⁠Fy let us, &c.

And there will be Geordy meal-maker,
⁠wi' twa-three mair lads frae the north;
And there will be Haſtie the baker.
⁠and Callender's ſon o' Craigforth:
And then will be Sillerſinitb Sawney,
⁠now he's turn'd a dockter himſel,
And there will be ſome nae fae canny,
⁠the friends o' the French and o' H—L.
⁠Fy let us, &c.

And there will be Malcom Wright Ballie,
⁠and Lawn-Market traders anew,
And there will be Todd's and J. Halley,
⁠wyld Margaro, Nicholſon too.
And there will be Laing and G. Innes,
⁠and Reverent Neil Douglas I trew,
He row'd frae Dundee in a Pinnace,
⁠and left the Seceders to rue.
⁠Fy let us, &c

And there will be Wattie Hart Preſes,
⁠and Gourly, wha yet does engage,
To copie o'er ony law caſes,
⁠at tippence or thripence the page.
And there will be Gazetteer Printer,
⁠in room o' the Captain he came,
And there will be Mitchell young Painter,
⁠and Luckenbooth Jacobin Sam.
⁠Fy let us, &c.

And there will be White, Brown, and Stalker
⁠Rait, Ritchie three Richmonds and Reid,
James Somerville noted Tea Hawker,
⁠and Morris, and Muir, and Muirhead;
And there will be Elekio the Tinker,
⁠wi a face fu o' ſorrow and care,
And there will be Gerald and Sinclar,
⁠the Anderſton drummer, and Dair.
⁠Fy let us, &e.

Some there will be tatter'd and duddie,
⁠there Urquhart o'er frae the new town,
And Secratar General Strathurdie,
⁠wi ither great men o' renown.
There Delegates will be frae Paiſley
⁠Air, Glaſgow, and Stirling fu' riſe,
Frae Perth, London, Sheffield, frae Leſlie,
⁠and ſome other ſma' towns in fife.
⁠Fy let us, &

And there will be Tailors and Sutors,
⁠and Weavers, and Maſons, and Wrigh
And Grocers, and Dominie Tutors,
⁠to ſettle our Laws, and our Rights.
And there they uſe every invention,
⁠their King and their Country to ſerve, (
Then ſurely they merit attention,
⁠and well of their Country deſerve. (wh(illegible text)
⁠Fy let us, &c