That to commend him there’s no need.
His works have prais’d him.—Since he’s dead.
Nisbet of Dalstown in his stead.
In open court against Whigs did plead:
And to the gallows did pursue
The Pentland men who did renew
The covenants at Lanark town.
Till they on gibbets were brought down;
And by his rigorous pursuing
He many other Whigs did ruin,