An invalid, to serve not—but with pay
(A mighty sum to him), twelve-pence a day.
“But have you heard not,” said Macallin More,
“Charles Stuart’s landed on Eriska’s shore,
And Jacobites are arming?”—“What! indeed!
Arrived! then I’m no more an invalid;
My new-got halbert I must straight employ
In battle.”—“As you please, old gallant boy:
Your grey hairs well might plead excuse, ’tis true,
But now’s the time we want such men as you.”