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 They drove them to the gray frier’s yeard

and there they were inclosed

It would have made a whole heart sore

to see them so abused,

And there they lay for many a day,

starving for hunger and cold:

our cursed council did command,

they o’er the seas were sold.

Then Arazon did undertake

to go to new plantations,

and to remove them far away,

out of their native nations.

But Judgment shall him overtake,

either here or hereafter?

when Lords of council shall not then

be able him to shelter

They did not send them to the sea

not only for their lives

for two they hang’d in Edinburgh town,

and five of them in Fife,

For such a hellish pack as they

I think shall ne’er renown,

then sent the wounded prisoners

into the sea to drown.

For of two hundred prisoners

that to the sea did go,

was never more returned at all

but only fifty two.

And now they are not settled yet

tho’ they be imbrew’d in blood;

they are begun anew again,

to persecute most rude,

with fineing and with roberie,

the poor they do oppress;

And all that on God's name do call,

either in more or less,

when they send out their hellish hounds

an ioventer to take