Keppoch song

200 SUPPLEMENT.
scended to be thy son-in-law, an honour
only to thee, and who endeavoured to plant
thee in the true field of honour, to engraft
on thee a regard for the constitution antl
laws of the country, and a regard for the
civil rights of the subject. Respect this
pledge of friendship, raise not thine arm
against his representative, curb thy thirst
of lawless avarice, recant thy falsehoods,
violate not the rights of the sovereign, de-
light not in the blood of the innocent, and
let the sun of peace continue to shine.
" Cockatrice of Huntly, hath the father
of lies furnished thee with the seeds of dis-
cord, and dost thou sow disunion among
ns? Dost thou seek to raise anti-social
and unnatural war, that the blood of kind-
red, slain by kinsmen, may flow, and think-
est thou, thus to deaden my courage?
Dost thou seek, for thy associate, the chief
Tosh, and is he, the traitor to Donald Bal-
loch, to be thy commissioned agent against
me? Hath not war, for at least one hun-
dred and fifty years, raged between you,
ravaging, plunder, poisoning, murder; and
is the union betwixt you, to be cemented