The remains of Gardner’s broke dragoons
Kept Blair in Athole, and such towns:
These horsemen twice had suffer’d sore,
Here, by surprise, they suffer’d more:
As they next to the Highlands lay,
They skelped at them night and day.
Being station’d in this utmost pass,
They bore the brunt of all distress;
But the Hessians kept about Dunkeld,
And did into more safety dwell.