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With a bold pencil draw the great Argyle,
In some respects the glory of our isle ;
Draw his intrepid heart and generous mind,
Where nought that's base did ever harbour find :
But near him place his and display
By what base acts he leads his friends astray ;
Give him an air that's sullen and morose,
Still looking downward his dark mind expose.
Place Roxburgh up amid the vilest band
That ever did infest this wretched land ;
In proper colours paint his sordid mind,
Which rules of honour never yet could bind.
Now truth and justice banish'd quite away,
Revenge and falsehood bear a sovereign sway.
Linner, proceed : conspicuously expose
- The chicken-hearted, narrow-soul'd Montrose :
Oh ! how he does debase his noble line,
Which heretofore illustriously did shine !
Oh ! how he makes himself a tool of state !
Slave unto avarice, to his friends ingrate !
Tweeddale demands a place upon the stage,
Compos' d and learn'd, though scarce attain 'd to age
Time must determine how he will employ
The talents he so largely doth enjoy.
As from the morn the day is often guess'd.
He'll prove, I fear, a hawk like to the nest.
Queensberry next a station here doth claim ;
Oh ! how I tremble when I write the name !
Will he for what his father did, atone?
Or will he in the self-same course jog on?
To Stair allow, as he deserves, much space,
And round about him the Dalrymples place ;
Describe how then their sovereign did betray.
And sold our nation's liberty away.
Let Haddington appear, as is his due,
Amongst a rakish unbelieving crew ;