The number's few I've printed in regard
My charges have been great, and I hope reward;
I caus'd not print many above twelve score,
And the printers are engag'd that they shall print no more."—Post'ral, p. 97.
Sigma inquires why "this ancestor of Sir Walter's was called Old Satchels?" Hear the poet himself upon this point:
"Since the water of Ail Scots they are all chang'd and gone,
Except brave Whitslade and Hardin;
And Satchels his estate is gone,
Except his poor designation;