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

23 He wonldwould [sic] not let them live one night,

So in that posture they were shot

Most cruelly upon the spot.

Lachlane and Wilson in the sea

He drown'd cause they obey'd not me,

Though they were of the weaker sex,

No favour they of him did get:

And cruelly he took the life

Both of a young maid and a wife.

The kirk by excommunication

Did banish him out of their region;

Because he would not satisfy,

Them for his vile adultery:

For he knew well that I could thole

His vices all, without controul,

That he should have both peace and ease,

In doing things that I do please,

He clave as close unto my law

As any man I ever saw.

In atheism his days did spend

Until his time drew near an end.

Then for the fashion he did say,

That he was of the Popish way;

Because a priest made him believe,

That he to him would pardon give,

And would from purgatory bring

Him to a place where he would sing;

But that was but a forged lie.

For Lag lives hot and bien with me,

It was in spite he money gave

Unto the priest that greedy slave,

For he had neither pith nor power

To keep my friend from me an hour;

For when I heard that he was dead,