If Hell be pleas'd when sinners enter in;
If earth be pleas'd to lose a truckling knave;
Then all are pleas'd—MacDonald's in his grave.
Spoken extempore on Lovat's Execution, by a lover of all those who will and dare be honest in the worst of times.
None but the hangman, Murray,[182] or some tool,
Could from his heart say Lovat was a fool.
Yet ev'ry coxcomb will explain and teach
The chain of causes that surpass his reach.
When soft Kilmarnock,[183] trembling, came to bleed,