Page:Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir R. Grierson, late Laird of Lag, who died Dec. 23d, 1733.pdf/17

17 M'Cartney he did apprehend,

Brought him to an untimous end.

He plagued the presbyterians sore,

That dwelt on the water of Orr,

For Corsack's house he rifled bare,

And neither nurse nor bairn did spare,

But thurst them out from house and hold,

To hunger them exposed and cold;

He did leave nothing in that house

That was to him of any use;

The horse, the colt, the corn, the sheep,

He every thing away did sweep.

He rang'd through like a greedy thief,

Took butter cheese, mutton, and beef;

The puddings he did scarcely spare,

For every thing away he bear.

Of cloth and clothes silver and gold,

He took far more than can be told:

The blackest sight that country saw,

Worse than Pate Barley or John Faw.

All his zeal was mixt with self,

He very greedy was of pelf.

Yet all he took but short time lasted,

The Whigs did say that it was blasted,

For all his offspring that remain

Have none of his well gotten gain.

When I perceiv'd that it was gone,

I out of pity brought him home,

Now Whigs may sleep in a sound skin,

They'll never get mair skaith of him.

My friends that were of lower note,

In justice should not be forgot,

As Allison, who here did dree

A hell on earth for pleasing me.