Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

58 HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF
ous terms as do not correspond with the elegance
of his Latinity, or give a favourable impression
of his taste, and encourage no other belief,
than that the court at which he lived, was as
unpolished as it was licentious. Of this long
address, we shall only transcribe that part in
which the Macgregors are noticed, Buchanan
being their inveterate enemy. It follows : —
" And howbeit the bullerant blude of a king
and a reget about yair hartis, quhairof ye lust
in yair appetite, genis thame lytill rest, daylie
and hourlie making new prouocatioun, zit yat
small space of rest quhilk yai haue, besyde ye
execution of yair crueltie, thay spend in deuy-
sing of generall vnquyetnes throu the haill
coutrie, for not cotent of it yat yai yame selfis
may steill, brybe, and reif, thay set out ratches
on every syde, to gnau the pepillis banis, efter
that thay haue consumit the flesche, and hountis
out ane of thame the clan Gregour, ane vther
ye Grantie and clan Chattan, &c. , and sic as
wald be haldin the halyest amagis yame, scheu
plainlie ye affectioun yai had to banies peice
and steir vp troublis, quhe thay bendit all thair
fyne wittis to stop the regent to ga first north,
and syne south, to puneis thift and oppressioun :
and quhe they sau, that thair counsall was not