His foes should be in collops hack’d,

Such were the brags in a letter sent,

Was writ unto Lord President,

When he advis’d him for his good,

To call his clan from Charlie’s croud:

Fight! that he would, and die at home,

As it was not far unto his tomb.

When dead, his countrywives he’d have

Cronoch to sing around his grave.

Likewise he wrote, I understand,