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 Brave Charles Stewart of renows,

The best that ever wore a crown,

For whoredom and adultery,

For incest and profanity

For drunkenness and for perjury.

He neither word nor oath regarded;

With gibbets he his friend rewarded;

When opposition he did meet.

He then did play the hypocrite,

And feign'd himself for reformation,

When he intended deformation.

At Spey and Scoon within a year,

The covenants he twice did swear;

And at Dunfermline did profess

His sorrow for his naughtiness;

But that wa all to get the crown.

That he the better might throw down

That covenanted Presbytery,

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 hangman's hand.

He caus'd the nations to abjure

What they call d reformation pure.

Brave Prelacy he did restore,

As it in Scotland was before.

And to this Dagon he caus'd bow

Scotsmen century 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,