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68 A KEPPOCH SONG. canto nr.
Athol with Clovie is rewarded,
Its lands and forest to him awarded*.
Th' royal vengeance being glutted,
Myself thus shap'n, shorn, and hooted,
I am let go to my old home,
A prey to anguish to become.
Even my spouse f me fails to bless,
I have no issue to caress.
My old alliance with England's Rings,
However, sometimes comfort brings;}:.
The King, who had me thus low made,
Continues still his pilfring trade;
'Gainst southern subjects next proceeds,
To seize their Wealth to serve his needs;
* The grant of Clovie was, in all probability, at the expence
of Robertson of Strouan, he being Athol's neighbour. As it
fared with the root and stem, so would it fare with the
branches.
t John, last Earl of Ross, was married to 3 daughter of
James, Lord Livingston, by Whom he had no issue.
J The Kings of England kept up a friendly intercourse with
the Lords of the Isles, down to Henry the Eighth, and until
the extinction of the family, on account of their having fa-
voured Balliol, and as a check on the Scots league with France,
but more particularly to prevent them from assisting the Irish,
as in former times.
Athol with Clovie is rewarded,
Its lands and forest to him awarded*.
Th' royal vengeance being glutted,
Myself thus shap'n, shorn, and hooted,
I am let go to my old home,
A prey to anguish to become.
Even my spouse f me fails to bless,
I have no issue to caress.
My old alliance with England's Rings,
However, sometimes comfort brings;}:.
The King, who had me thus low made,
Continues still his pilfring trade;
'Gainst southern subjects next proceeds,
To seize their Wealth to serve his needs;
* The grant of Clovie was, in all probability, at the expence
of Robertson of Strouan, he being Athol's neighbour. As it
fared with the root and stem, so would it fare with the
branches.
t John, last Earl of Ross, was married to 3 daughter of
James, Lord Livingston, by Whom he had no issue.
J The Kings of England kept up a friendly intercourse with
the Lords of the Isles, down to Henry the Eighth, and until
the extinction of the family, on account of their having fa-
voured Balliol, and as a check on the Scots league with France,
but more particularly to prevent them from assisting the Irish,
as in former times.
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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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