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Pulling lier on betwixt the waves,
The cargo heartless and senseless too ?
Widows of a foolish mind,
A boasting, talkative crew,
A load vexatious and bad.
Quarrelsome and covetous.
Of evil minds and evil deeds.
Their ways and conversation l)ad,
A band of well-known fame.
No substance in what they say.
Drunken, singing, with levity,
A band ill-shapen, mischievous,
Wlio live by both sides of Loch Inch.
In spite of thee and of their ship
On the stormy sea's dun face,
No good woman could take that shij),
However pressing the constraint.
The worst of women go to sea,
Others cannot give them help.
Let this ship be driven from the locli,
Down to the fierce and roaring deep.
Let the wind pursue the ship.
To the old point of Seananach.
Tliere will I leave upon the stream.
The ill-favoured, ill- doing sliip.
Of wicked widows fuU on tlie sea.
Without a psalm or creed e'er said.
AVhat.
The fame of the house of Dunolly, little favour where they
drive a herd.^
This brute is much like a dog, greedy aye for stolen flesh.
I These satirical lines on the family of Macdougalls of Lorn were a race as dis-
Dunolly are given as a specimen of the tinguished for the antiquity of their de-
strain indulged in at times by the bards, scent, as for the high character of many
to gratify their animosity against hostile of the name.
elans. It need hardly be added, that the