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,