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MINSTRELSY. 119
He's anger'd his goodson and Fintry,
By selling his king and his country,
And put a deep stain on the gentry :
He'll never be guidit by me.
He's join'd the rebellious club, too,
That endeavours our peace to disturb, too ;
He's cheated poor Mr. John Grub, too,
And he's guilty of simony.
He broke his promise before, too,
To Fintry, Auchterhouse, and Strathmore, too ;
God send him a heavy glengore, too,
For that is the death he will die.*
PERFIDIOUS BRITAIN. f
Perfidious Britain, plung'd in guilt,
Rebellious sons of loyal race,
How long, how long will ye insult
Your banish'd monarch suing peace ?
What floods of native blood are spilt !
What sewers of treason drain our land !
How many scourges have we felt
In the late aspiring tyrant's hand !
* This Song appears to have been written on the defection of Car-
negie of Phinhaven, as already observed in a preceding note. The
last verse probably alludes to the circumstance of his trial for having
accidentally killed the Earl of Strathmore in a broil with Lyon of
Brigton and others, Phinhaven was tried for murder, but the jury
very properly acquitted him, since the mains animus necessary to con-
stitute that crime was clearly awanting. Dundas of Arniston was his
counsel, and to his firmness in pressing upon the jury that they were
judges both of the law and the fact, Phinhaven owed his acquittal.
f This is a vigorous appeal to the loyalty of the nation in behalf
of the exiled Prince, and the allusions, the sentiments, and the stile
would betoken it a composition of Queen Anne's reign. With cha-
racteristic naivete, the Ettrick Shepherd says, " I do not always
understand what the bard means; but as he seems to have been an