"He's bound to it by blude," said Sandy; "and I'm thinking ye'd better try to get a list o' subscribers.

They swakked their swords till sair they swat, The blude ran down like rain.

The Gordons gude, in English blude They steeped their hose and shoon; The Lindsays flew like fire about Till a' the fray was dune.

And the blude ran doun like rain.

And after having remarked, that "To lie in kilns and barns at e'en, When banes are crazed and blude is thin, Is doubtless great distress;" the bard reckons up, with true poetical spirit, the free enjoyment of the beauties of nature, which might counterbalance the hardship and uncertainty of the life even of a mendicant.

"Bot certainly the daisit blude now on dayis Waxis dolf and dull throw myne unwieldy age.