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Himselfe was aiget, his hous hang be a har,
Duill and distres almaist to deid him dr.iife ;
Yet Burd-allane, his only son and air.
As wretched, vyiss, and valient, as the laive,
His hous uphail'd, quhilk ye with lionor halve.
So nature tliat the lyk invyanj name,
" In kindlie cair dois kindly courage craif,
To follow him in fortoune and in fame.
Richerd he wes, Richerd ye are also,
And Maitland als, and magnanime as he ;
In als great age, als wrappit are in wo,
Sewin sons-j- ye haid noight contravaill his tlirie,
Bot Burd-allane ye halve behind as he :
The lord his linage so inlarge in lyne,
And mony hundreith nepotis grie and griej
Sen Richert wes as hundreth yeiris are hyne.
An CoHsulutor Ballad to the liicJit IlonoralUl
Sir Richert Maitland of Lethhigl oiine
Maitland MSS. in Library of EdinliiTgh
University.
Sir William Mautlant, or Maitland, the eldest and sole
surviving son of Sir Richard, ratified and confirmed, to
the monks of Dryburgh, " Oiimes terras qitas Dominus
" Ricardiis de Mautlant jjater suns fecit dictis monachis
* i. c. Similar family distress demands the same family courage.
-)- Sewin sons — This must include sons-in-law ; for the last Sir
Richard, like his predecessor, had only three sons, namely, 1. Wil-
liam, the famous secretary of Queen Mary ; II. Sir John, who
alone survived him, and is the Burd-allane of the consolation ; III.
Thomas, a youth of great hopes, who died in Italy. But he had
four daughters married to gentlemen of fortune. — Pinkerton's
List cf Scottish Poets, p. II 4.
X Ciric and grie — In regular descent ; from gre, French.