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The, from which this passage is extracted, is of considerable length, and mentions some minute circumstances of the engagement. One passage is curious:

After this poem follows "Velitatio Cameroniana, sive, Appendix Belli Bothweliani." The other poems of Guild are chiefly complimentary or valedictory. One of them is addressed to Sir Robert Dalyell. The author appears to have been educated at Aberdeen.

Colville, in his Scotish Hudibras, and afterwards Meston, in his "Knight," both allude to the spirit of resistance displayed by the Presbyterians. The latter thus describes "the Souterkin of reformation:"