Page:Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir Robert Grierson of Lag; who died Decem. 23d, 1733.pdf/20

 And when he brought them to disgrace,

He mocked them unto their face.

From others he did take their gear,

He neither mercy had nor fear,

Yet this did not his wrath allay,

For others he did seek to stay.

and near ,

He took their life, their blood to spill;

And left them hanging on a tree,

For disobedience to me.

of he did stay,

And would not give him time to pray;

And other four in that same hour

He shot upon.

and ,

also he brought down;

And made them all a sacrifice,

His hellish fury to appease.

Two men in in some did find,

And with hair-tethers did them bind,

Like sheep for slaughter there they lay,

and.

Till came up, and gave command

To kill them quickly out of hand.

Against them he had such despite,

He would not let them live one night,

So in that posture they were shot

Most cruelly upon the spot.

and in the sea

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

Tho' they were of the weaker sex,

No favour they of him did get,

Unto a stake he did them tye,

Because they did my laws deny.

And cruelly he took the life

Both of a young maid and a wife,