]
[Footnote 138: neighing like an entire horse.]
[Footnote 139: corpse.]
[Footnote 140: grease.]
[Footnote 141: Their reward, or their desire not diminished.]
[Footnote 142: No minstrels without doubt--a compliment to the poetical
profession: there were no gleemen or minstrels in the infernal
regions.]
[Footnote 143: letter of right.]
[Footnote 144: Pageant.]
[Footnote 145: By the time he had done shouting the coronach or cry of
help, the Highlanders speaking Erse or Gaelic gathered about him.]
[Footnote 146: croaked like ravens and rooks.]
[Footnote 147: deafened.]
[Footnote 148: smothered.]
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.
(1490-1555.)
VI. SATIRE ON THE SYDE TAILLIS--ANE SUPPLICATIOUN DIRECTIT TO THE KINGIS
GRACE--1538.
The specimen of Lyndsay cited below--this satire on long trains--is
by no means the most favourable that could be desired, but it is
the only one that lent itself readily to quotation. The archaic
spelling is slightly modernized.
Schir! though your Grace has put gret order
Baith in the Hieland and the Border
Yet mak I supplicatioun
Till have some reformatioun
Of ane small falt, whilk is nocht treason
Though it be contrarie to reason.
Because the matter been so vile,
It may nocht have ane ornate style;
Wherefore I pray your Excellence
To hear me with great patience:
Of stinking weedis maculate
No man nay mak ane rose-chaplet.
Sovereign, I mean of thir syde tails,
Whilk through the dust and dubis trails
Three quarters lang behind their heels,
Express again' all commonweals.
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