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346 JACOBITE
As with hound and with horn
We rise in the morn,
With vigour the chase to pursue ;
Corruption's our cry,
Which we'll hunt till we die ;
'Tis worthy a British true blue, &c.
Here's a health to all those
Who slavery oppose,
And wish our old rights to renew ;
To each honest voice
That concurs in the choice,
And support of an honest true blue, true blue,
And support of an honest true blue.
PRINCE CHARLES.*
O how shall I venture or dare to reveal,
Too nice for expression, too good to conceal,
The graces and virtues that illustriously shine
In the Prince that's descended from Stuart's
great line ?
O could I extol as I love the great name,
Or sound my low strain to my Prince's great
In verses immortal his glory should live, [fame,
And to ages unborn his merit survive.
usual spirit of the Jacobite muse. All the Whig songs were wretched
in point of taste. This composition is lively, poetical, and clever ;
and whether Jacobite or Whig, it is entitled to a place in any collec-
tion.
* The strain of this production denotes it to be one of the panegy-
rical effusions which abounded when Prince Charles first arrived in
Scotland. Its adulation is too fulsome for modern taste; but it
affords evidence of the enthusiastic feeling and blind idolatry of Jaco*
bite loyalty, in Hogg's Relics it is set to a fine air by Oswald, whose