And one too much was not secure,

Herself, her servant, and Betty Burke,

Who was going to her mother’s work.

The boat’s prepar’d, away they set;

But lady Clan-Ronald was in a strait:

For soon as she had reached home,

Was strict examin’d by Ferguson——

Pray where now, Madam, have you been,

Seeing a sick child, a dying frien’;

My servants might have told the matter;