No Nectar they know but a pot of good ale.

The Picts and the Scots for ale were at lots,

So high was the skill, and so kept under seale;

The Picts were undone, slain each mothers son,

For not teaching the Scots to make Hether Eale.

But hither or thither, it skils not much whether:

For Drink must be had, men live not by Keale,

Not by Havor-bannocks nor by Havor-jannocks,

The thing the Scots live on is a pot of good ale.

Now, if ye will say it, I will not denay it,