Came to the feast then dined thereout,
Twa pair o’ pipers playing gade
About the table as they fed.”
Our present day equivalent for this verse is much better rhyme, if farther from the truth:—
“At the wedding of Shon Mac Lean,
’Twas wet and windy weather,
Yet through the wind and rain
Cam twenty pipers together!
Erach and Dugald Dhu,
Sandy of Isla, too,