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THE BATTLE OF ROSLIN.
Liavi off your tittle tattle.
And I'll tell ybu.ofa lartle.
Where claymore and targe did rattle,
At Rosli^m the Lee.
Ten thousan^pBcottiah laddies,
Brest in their tartan plsidies,
^ With blue bonnets and cockadies,
A pleasant sight to see.
Commanded by Sir Simon Frazer,
Who was as bold as Caesar,
Great Alesander never,
Could exceed that hero bold.
And by brave Sir John Cummin,
When he satfr the foes a coming,
Set the bag-pipes a bumming
Stand firm my hearts of go!d.
Ten thousand English advancing,
See how their arms are glancing,
We'll set them all a dancing,
At Roslin on the Lee,
Like furies our brave Highlandmcn,
Most nobly they engaged them,
On field they durst no longer stand.
They soon began to flee.
They rush’d in to the battle.
Made sword and targe to rattla*
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Liavi off your tittle tattle.
And I'll tell ybu.ofa lartle.
Where claymore and targe did rattle,
At Rosli^m the Lee.
Ten thousan^pBcottiah laddies,
Brest in their tartan plsidies,
^ With blue bonnets and cockadies,
A pleasant sight to see.
Commanded by Sir Simon Frazer,
Who was as bold as Caesar,
Great Alesander never,
Could exceed that hero bold.
And by brave Sir John Cummin,
When he satfr the foes a coming,
Set the bag-pipes a bumming
Stand firm my hearts of go!d.
Ten thousand English advancing,
See how their arms are glancing,
We'll set them all a dancing,
At Roslin on the Lee,
Like furies our brave Highlandmcn,
Most nobly they engaged them,
On field they durst no longer stand.
They soon began to flee.
They rush’d in to the battle.
Made sword and targe to rattla*
l
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > War > Battle of Roslin > (2) |
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| Description | Fought on the Plains of Roslin, 1303, and John Highlandman's remarks on Glasgow. Edinburgh : Printed for the booksellers, 1820. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2817(19) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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