And yet if Charles return, to morrow,

He vows he’d go tho’ on a barrow.


[CHAP. XI.]

Procedure of the King’s men against the suspected. Confusion in the Army and severity against the Clans.

Now, the royal Duke, at Inverness,

Did the whole North fully possess,

Encamp’d, and sent his parties out

To burn and plunder round about

All the offenders, who for their crime,