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266 BOSWELLIANA.
" * was a very religious young woman. She re-
fused Mr. James Dunda3,t of Arniston, because he was a rake.
Some years afterwards she married Mr. Alexander Leslie,|
brother to the Earl of Leven, who at length was Earl of Leven
himself, but had very little when she married him. Upon which
Monypenny, of Pitmilly, wrote these lines : —
* Celia, who cast her eyes to heaven,
Now turns them back and looks to Leven ;
Her former coyness she repents,
And thinks of men of lower rents,
"Which makes it true what old folks says —
There's difference of market days.'
Lord Auchinleck.
It is curious that Pitmilly's § sister was second wife to Mr.
Leslie after he came to be earh ,
" The old laird of Blair |1 was a man of singular humour.
He and the laird of Baidlin were once visiting at Eglintoune.
When they were coming away, Blair says, ' Baidlin, we have
been very kindly entertained in this house. I think we'll leave a
crown, the price o' drink-money.' ' I think so too,' said Baidlin.
Blair contrived to let Baidlin go before him, who gave his crown.
In a little after Blair came down, and he says to the butler,
* The heroine of this anecdote, whose name Boswell omits, was his
relative, Mary Erskine, daughter of Colonel Erskine of Carnock,
and aunt of the celebrated Dr. John Erskine of Greyfriars Church,
Edinburgh.
t Brother of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the
Court of Session.
X Alexander Leslie, second son of David, third Earl of Leven,
was admitted advocate in 1719. He succeeded his nephew as fifth
Earl of Leven in 1729, and was appointed a judge in 1734. From
1741 to 1753 he held office as Lord High Commissioner to the
General Assembly. He died in 1754.
§ The second wife of Alexander Leslie, fifth Earl of Leven, was
Elizabeth, daughter of David Monypenny, of Pitmilly, Fifeshire.
II Bryce Blair, of Blair, died 4th February, 1 639.