Keppoch song
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98 A KEPPOCH SONG. canto
At all hands poor Keppoch's baited;
Scott looks up, seems more elated:
A plundered exile now you drive 'm,
No blessed hand dare hel|> to thrive 'm.
Still drive on your glorious car,
And whirl us round your sport of war.
A King's compromise next display,
And o'er the nation win the day.
Say, that King was still your depute;
James th' Seventh by law did leap out:
There was no Coke on Scottish bench,
Illegal trouncing to retrench.
Whirl'd so long, how great is Walter!
We may now be thought to faulter.
Behold now how he's pleas'd to cut,
And up for sale he doth us put;
Decks us out with ancient laurel,
Just to hide our ragg T d apparel;
For louis d'ors now are we sold;
Walter even takes British gold.
This is still but the old Scot trick,
Long have we been th' mart of traffic,
Down to Anne and George seraphic.
Walter now where hast thou found us;
At Inchgal hast thou now bound us?
I
At all hands poor Keppoch's baited;
Scott looks up, seems more elated:
A plundered exile now you drive 'm,
No blessed hand dare hel|> to thrive 'm.
Still drive on your glorious car,
And whirl us round your sport of war.
A King's compromise next display,
And o'er the nation win the day.
Say, that King was still your depute;
James th' Seventh by law did leap out:
There was no Coke on Scottish bench,
Illegal trouncing to retrench.
Whirl'd so long, how great is Walter!
We may now be thought to faulter.
Behold now how he's pleas'd to cut,
And up for sale he doth us put;
Decks us out with ancient laurel,
Just to hide our ragg T d apparel;
For louis d'ors now are we sold;
Walter even takes British gold.
This is still but the old Scot trick,
Long have we been th' mart of traffic,
Down to Anne and George seraphic.
Walter now where hast thou found us;
At Inchgal hast thou now bound us?
I
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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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