Duke William at Lithgow heard th’ crack,
And cry’d, “Now Blackney’s gone to wreck,”
Not knowing what the meaning was,
Till in Falkirk he heard the cause,
Now all of them had cross’d the Forth
Quite o’er the hills into the North.
The Campbells, and some troops of horse,
That night arriv’d at Stirling cross,
Who came harrassing the retreat,
And pick’d some straglers by the gate: