Cold water struck the women’s belly,
It made them both prove faint and silly.
One horseman, and four women that day,
Were drown’d in crossing of the Spey:
From other harms cannons did cover,
And still they form’d as they came over,
For to engage kept always ready,
Caus’d pipes play Fair play, Highland laddie.
To Elgin town they march’d that night,
As the Highland core had ta’en their flight,