[459]. Courant newspaper, Reliquiæ Scot.
[460]. Analecta, ii. 206.
[461]. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 254.
[462]. P. Rae’s History of Rebellion of 1715–16, p. 40.
[463]. A congenial spirit, Matthew Prior, produced a sort of paraphrase of this piece:
‘In total death suppose the mortal lie,
No new hereafter, nor a future sky,
Yet bear thy lot content, yet cease to grieve,
Why, ere Death comes, shouldst thou forbear to live?
The little time thou hast ’twixt instant now