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Adam Boyd aforesaid afterwards Alexander appearance appointed Auld Ayrshire bailies barony belonging Boyd family bridge Brown burgh burgh of barony Burns called CHAPTER congregation considerable Council Craufurdland Craufurdland Castle Cross Dean Castle death died Dry quarters Earl of Glencairn Earl of Kilmarnock early Edinburgh erected favour Fenwick friends gentlemen Glasgow Green Greenshields hear my ditty honour Hugh hundred individuals inhabitants Irvine James John Dickie Kilmar Kilmarnock Water King Street Kirk lands late Lindsay Lochgoin London Lord Boyd lordship Low Church magistrates marnock Master of Boyd Matthew Hopkins mentioned minister Muir native nock occasion ordained parish Parker party Paterson period persons poems poet present Prince principal prisoners Rowallan scene School Scotland Scots soldiers soon Soulis succeeded successors talents Thomas Lord Thomas Lord Boyd Thomson tion town of Kilmarnock Treasurer William William Gilchrist Wilson
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Page 84 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 139 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? —Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Page 72 - Tower from whence you came ; from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution ; when you come there, you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead ; for you must be cut down alive ; then your bowels must be taken out, and burnt before your faces ; then your heads must be severed from your bodies, and your 'bodies must be divided, each into four quarters, and these must be at the King's disposal. And God Almighty be merciful to your souls...
Page 237 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin ; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h' had talk'd three parts in one ; Which made some think, when he did gabble, Th' had heard three labourers of Babel, Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once.
Page 66 - Shades of the mighty and the brave, Who, faithful to your Stuart, fell ! No trophies mark your common grave, Nor dirges to your memory swell. But generous hearts will weep your fate, When far has roll'd the tide of time ; And bards unborn shall renovate Your fading fame in loftiest rhyme.
Page 71 - The judgment of the law is, and this High Court doth award, that you, William Earl of Kilmarnock, George Earl of Cromartie, and Arthur Lord Balmerino, and every one of you, return to the prison of the Tower from whence you came ; from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution ; when you come there, you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead...
Page 68 - Almost every man in their front rank, chief and gentleman, fell before the deadly weapons which they had braved ; and, although the enemy gave way, it was not till every bayonet was bent and bloody with the strife.
Page 231 - THE Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art, He pours the wild effusions of the heart : And if inspir'd, 'tis Nature's pow'rs inspire ; Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire. ANONYMOUS.
Page 77 - ... his mind, nature still recurred upon him ; so that being struck with such a variety of dreadful objects at once — the multitude, the block, his coffin, the executioner, the instrument of death — he turned about and said, ' Home, this is terrible.' This expression, so suitable to the awful occasion, must, to all who know the human heart, appear to be nothing else than the language of nature, and was far from being a mark of unmanly fear ; being pronounced with a steady countenance and firmness...
Page 93 - Be it known clearly unto all men by this present public instrument that in the year of the Incarnation of...