What was I or my ministry

That we should sae exalted be?

A glaikit mongrel company

O’ bleth’rin’ b——

Some three years syne—O L—— forgie

Our liein’ speeches.

When frae my post aewhile I fell,

I fum’d and sulk’d, and swore mysel’

Wad never mair wi’ office mell

In Church or State,