Edinburgh castle, towne, and tower,
God grant thou sinke for sinne!
And that even for the black dinner
Earle Douglas got therein.
Written on the fly-leaf of a little volume printed at Edinburgh about 1670 (Quevedo’s Novels), Laing MSS, University of Edinburgh, Div. II, 358. (Communicated by Mr Macmath.)
‘He steps full statly on ye stre[et],
He hads ye charters of him sell,
In to his cloathing he is compl[ete],
In Craford’s mure he bears ye bell.