Keppoch song

8* A KEPPOCH SONG, c/nto in
But Earl Bread albane, though no grounds,
Finds he has got ten thousand pounds*.
Keppoch th' peace with Toshaeh to keep,
That discord may for ever sleep,
Craves Toshaeh t' give his son a wife,
And begin a new scene of life ;
But he th' offer treats with disdain,
Hence sterility with him does remain-}'.
* After the submission of the clans, through the gratuitous
medium of Keppoch, Breadalbane was questioned by the mi-
nistry how he had disposed of the money; he replied, " that
did not signify between friend?," and so, as it would appear,
kept all the money to himself, this being all the satisfaction
the ministry got. — Sir J. Dairy rirph's Memoirs.
t The successor of the Milroy, Macintosh, renewed Kep-
poch's grunt, and, at same tune, that nothing on Keppoch's
part might be wanting to fulfil the feudal system, he offered
to take, as a wife for his son, any near relation of Macintosh,
he might be inclined to give; but this proposal was scornfully
rejected. Keppoch, as if indued by the spirit of prophecy,
or second sight, so famous in the Highlands, said to him, as he
was leaving his house, that neither he nor any future laird of
Macintosh, should beget an heir, which has been duly fulfilled,
the present being the third in succession that has failed in this
respect. The present Lady Macintosh has travelled the king-
dom, consulting doctors and mid-wives, exhausting the mate-
ria medica, and swallowing quack medicines, in hopes of hav-
ing children, but without success. Thus has the displeasure
of Heaven been shown; and though Mlntosh, since 1715,
has been in possession of part of the lands of Keppoch, he
lias not transmitted them to an heir of his own body.