"Your nether party fire must,

"Then beat a flying drum;

"And then they'll think the day's their ain,

"And frae the trench they'll come.

"Then, those that are behind them maun

"Gie shot, baith grit and sma';

"And so, between your armies twa,

"Ye may make them to fa'."

"O were ye ever a soldier?"

Sir David Lesly said;