There occurred in this case a most notable slip;

To describe it, our metre we’ve stol’n, ’twill be seen,

From the song of one “Jock,” who’s sirnamed Hazeldean.

“The kirk was deckt at even-tide,

The tapers glimmered fair,

The Baron Cort’ryke sought his bride,

And this time she was there!

She said, ‘I will,’ as if a pill

Had stuck within her throat,

But fortune kind was still inclined