Yet has sae mony takin’ airts

Wi’ grit an’ sma’,

I fear least he the people’s hairts

Should steal awa.’

And whan we chasten him therefore,

Thou kens how he breeds sic a splore,

As sets the country in a roar

O’ boist’rous laughin’;

Curse thou his ermine and his fur,

His sneers an’ chaffin’.