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canto in. A KEPPOCH SONG. 39
Until they're forc'd to rise in arms,
To save themselves from royal harms.
Soon a title they do put on —
" The Lords of the Insurrection."
With them the discontented join,
Arbitrary will t' undermine.
Huntly, wh' had been chief instrument
In the Douglas' great detriment,
Forgetful now of that sad story,
Wheels about to Whig from Tory.
The King now finds them up in arms,
Ready and active like top swarms ;
Himself in arms does next appear,
That he may stop their keen career.
The parties now meet in the field,
Where James the Third his breath does yield;
Falls in a cause of his own wooing,
Twelve years after my undoing*.
Huntly, as the Scotch Warwick known,
James the Fourth does raise to the throne;
* Suspicion, indolence, immoderate attachment to females,
and many of the errors of a feeble mind, are visible in the
conduct of James the Third; and his turbulent reign was
closed by a rebellion of his subjects, being slain in battle in
In 11-88." — Modern Geography.
Until they're forc'd to rise in arms,
To save themselves from royal harms.
Soon a title they do put on —
" The Lords of the Insurrection."
With them the discontented join,
Arbitrary will t' undermine.
Huntly, wh' had been chief instrument
In the Douglas' great detriment,
Forgetful now of that sad story,
Wheels about to Whig from Tory.
The King now finds them up in arms,
Ready and active like top swarms ;
Himself in arms does next appear,
That he may stop their keen career.
The parties now meet in the field,
Where James the Third his breath does yield;
Falls in a cause of his own wooing,
Twelve years after my undoing*.
Huntly, as the Scotch Warwick known,
James the Fourth does raise to the throne;
* Suspicion, indolence, immoderate attachment to females,
and many of the errors of a feeble mind, are visible in the
conduct of James the Third; and his turbulent reign was
closed by a rebellion of his subjects, being slain in battle in
In 11-88." — Modern Geography.
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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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