Had he but known what Scots in hell had been,

He would, Erasmus-like, have hung between.

My muse hath done. A voyder for the nonce,

I wrong the devil should I pick their bones;

That dish is his; for when the Scots decease,

Hell, like their nation, feeds on barnacles.

A Scot when from the gallow-tree got loose,

Drops into Styx, and turns a Soland goose.

John Cleiveland.

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