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To London he prefs'd,
And there he addrefs'd,
That he behav'd bell of them a', man ;
And there without ftrife
Got fettled for life,
An hundred a year to his fa' man.
And <we ran, and they ran l$c.
In Borrowftounnefs
He refides with diigrace,
Till his neck Hand in need of a dra', man,
And then in a tether
He'll fwing from a ladder,
[And] go off the flage with a pa', man.
And <we ran, and they ran, cifc.
Rob Roy * flood watch
On a hill for to catch
The booty for ought that I fa', man,
* " Among other caufes of the rebels misfortune in that
day they reckon the part Rob Roy, M. Gregor, acted to be
one ; this Rob Roy, or [Red] Robert, was brother to the
laird of M. Gregor, and commanded that clan in his
brother's abfence, but in the day of battle he kept his men
together at fome diftance without allowing them to engage,
tho' they /how'd all the willingnefs immaginable, and
waited only an opportunity to plunder, which was it feerns
the chief of his defign of corning there. This clan are a
hardy rough people, but noted for pilfering, as they lye up-
on the border of the Highlands, and this Rob Roy had ex-
ercifed their talents that way pretty much in a kind of
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