Strict command, to do such duty;
But kept his party from the booty,
For which he got’s commission torn,
Himself depos’d with shame and scorn.
From thence they march’d to Aberdeen,
Where a storm of snow and frost full keen,
Which on the mountains some time lay,
Caus’d them into that town to stay.
Hesse’s band in Perth then quarter’d was,
And at Dunkeld keeped the pass,