Page:Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir Robert Grierson of Lag; who died Decem. 23d, 1733.pdf/5

 For incest and profanity,

For falshood and for treachery,

For drunk'nness and for perjury;

He neither word nor oath regarded;

With gibbets he his friends rewarded;

With oppositon when he did meet,

He then did play the hypocrite,

And feign'd himself for reformation,

When he intended deformation.

At and  within a year,

The covenants he twive did swear ;

And at did profess

his sorrow for his naughtiness;

But that was all to get the crown,

That he the better might bring down

That covenanted Presbyt'rie,

That was so opposite to me.

For afterwards he did rescind

These covenants no more to bind;

And solemnly he gave command

To burn them by the hangmans hand.

He caus'd the nations to abjure

What they call'd reformation pure.

Brave Prelacy he did restore,

As it in was before.

And so this he caus'd bow

contrary to their vow.

He many a conscience did defile,

Which made me on his court to smile:

Malignants he advanced high,

Cause they good subjects were to me:

He tolerated heresy,

All error and profanity:

A blasphemous supremacie

Over the church usurped he;

And granted an Indulgency,