Between Cow-canny and Tranent

There Cope encamp’d, to council went,

Loudon and Gard’ner were of a mind,

That night to fight were well design’d:

Cope shamm’d it till another day,

In hope ’twould prove a cheaper way:

“Old men and boys, he said, would run,

“Sight of his army would them stun,

“A rabble undisciplin’d to fight,

“They neither have courage nor might.