Prince and peasant, burn them all!
Plunge them in the swelling rivers,
With their gear, and with their goods;
Spare, while breath remains, no Saxon;
Drown them in the roaring floods!
These lines have been translated by Professor Blackie, as well as the next piece of banter.
Black John Macgregor of Glenstrae, who was buried at Dysart, in Glenorchy, May 26, 1519, was a kind patron to the red-haired bard Finlay MacNab, who begins his praises as follows:—
I’ve been a stranger long
To pleasant-flowing matter;
I’m tired of lashing fools