Just like your reivin’ Hielan’ clans,

Or Border bodies.

I tell thee, Rab, I had nae share

In a’ the tulzie, here or there,

I lookit on, I do declare,

A mere spectator,

Nor said, nor acted, less or mair,

Aboot the matter.

Job had a minstrel o’ his ain,

A genius rare, and somewhat vain