They’re curs’d who’re guilty of such deed:

Yet here was Tullibardine gripped,

When from the roaring guns escaped,

And prisoner to London led;

Yet dy’d there quietly in his bed.

Duke William still camp’d in the north,

All was in stir beyond the Forth,

Ports, pass, and ferries guarded,

Who catch’d a rebel was well rewarded.

Few but preachers, at this day,