These Hessians were a warlike band,
Six thousand did their prince command,
Earl Crawford in their company,
To guide them thro’ the Scots country.
Their countenance was awful fierce,
They spake High-Dutch, or German Earse,
Had white buff-belts, and all blue clothes,
With a long beard beneath their nose,
And those who were in wedlock state,
Had all long whiskers, like the cat.