But to run, O shame! and leave your tents,
Like brok’n tennants with unpaid rents?
The dread of Highlandmen to consider!
And not two hundred of them together;
But all dispers’d the country thro’,
Afraid of them, and they of you!
For had they known th’ English retreating,
’Hind Tamtallan, had been a beating.
This was the step which Hawley took,
Which ruined all, else I mistook.