Keppoch song
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42 A KEPPOCH SONG. canto it.
Had not she leave to please her mind?
Was she not then to Toshach* kind?
Him, though a Saxon, I receive,
And her free choice a vassal have.
Ross' heiress has the world forsak'n,
To a convent herself betaken ;
The Stewart's arts have thus prevail'd,
And the new Buchan as Ross is hail'd.
My spouse, her aunt, is thus beguil'd,
Of her successive right despoil 'd.
To th' governor I've complain'd,
To no purpose — my suit's disdain'd.
Thus ancient laws have lost their course*
By trick and arbitrary force."
My chiefs, with indignation mov'd,
Do thus reply — Monteith reprov'd :
" If she'll not enjoy her estate,
She has no right the next to cheat:
She, as successor, it receiv'd,
Th' next in line should not be aggriev'd.'
If ancient laws have lost their sway,
No longer then can we obey.
* Macintosh, the chief of that name.
Had not she leave to please her mind?
Was she not then to Toshach* kind?
Him, though a Saxon, I receive,
And her free choice a vassal have.
Ross' heiress has the world forsak'n,
To a convent herself betaken ;
The Stewart's arts have thus prevail'd,
And the new Buchan as Ross is hail'd.
My spouse, her aunt, is thus beguil'd,
Of her successive right despoil 'd.
To th' governor I've complain'd,
To no purpose — my suit's disdain'd.
Thus ancient laws have lost their course*
By trick and arbitrary force."
My chiefs, with indignation mov'd,
Do thus reply — Monteith reprov'd :
" If she'll not enjoy her estate,
She has no right the next to cheat:
She, as successor, it receiv'd,
Th' next in line should not be aggriev'd.'
If ancient laws have lost their sway,
No longer then can we obey.
* Macintosh, the chief of that name.
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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