They chus’d for ground, that rising fell

West from Tranent, up Brislie brae,

A view both South and North to ha’e.

A few were left on Arthur’s Seat,

Thinking the king’s army to cheat.


[CHAP. II.]

Battle of Preston pans. Rebels return to Edinburgh, and behaviour there.

Now, at Dunbar, both foot and horse

Were join’d again, with full purpose,