We should, with speed, to Scotland hie us?

Mes. E’en so did they instruct for weighty reasons.

“Know, Vortigern did alway hate the Scots;

“And ofttimes hath, during thy father’s reign,

“Fram’d laws, most burthensome unto that people.

“But the keen tooth of hatred and revenge,

“With double fury since hath shewn itself;

“For every noble Scot then found in London,

“Did suffer ’neath the tiger’s ’vengeful fangs,

“And this, to direst rage, hath stirr’d their blood.”