Oh what a joy it was to see,
And likewise for to hear,
How Swinburn rattl’d in the van,
And Creighton in the rear.
They drank full fast from night ’till morn,
No slackness there was found;
And Scots and English hats and wigs,
Lay drunk upon the ground.
At Callaly, the seat of the Claverings, tradition reports, that while the workmen were engaged in erecting the castle upon a hill, a little distance from the scite of the present edifice, they were surprised every morning to find their former day’s work destroyed, and the whole impeded by supernatural obstacles, which causing them to watch, they heard a voice saying:—
Callaly castle stands on a height,