Describ’d the Hessians ev’n as they can,

Said, “He was a blue and bloody man,

“His drums and guns pe ready, got

“Hersell pe rin, or else be shot.”


[CHAP. VIII.]

Blowing up the Castle of Cargarf by the Earl of Ancram. Skirmishes at Keith and Inverness, &c.

Now while the duke lay at Aberdeen,

From England did his troops maintain,

Brought in his stores ay by the sea,