To note upon the haly table,

A murderer’s banes in gibbet-airns;

Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen’d bairns;

A thief, new cutted frae a rape,

Wi’ his last gasp his gab did gape;

Five tomahawks, wi’ bluid red rusted;

Five scimitars, wi’ murder crusted;

A garter, which a babe had strangled;

A knife, a father’s throat had mangled,

Whom his ain son o’ life bereft,