To play for bear, for pease, or ates;
His saul aspir’d to higher fates,
O mensefu’ John!
Our tears come rapping down in spates,
Since thou art gone.
“Whan other pipers steal’d away,
He gently down his join wad lay:
Nor hardly wad tak’ hire for play,
Sic was his mense!
We rair aloud the ruefu’ day