I was not, as Lord Byron says in the song, the founder of this Club; [Footnote: "But when we at Cambridge were My boy Hobbie O!

God blesse thee, noble Caesar, & all these brave bridegroomes, with their fine little dydoppers, that looke before they sleep to throw away their maiden heads: I am host of the Hobbie, Cornut. is my neighbour, but wele pull of his bopeeper; thou't know me by my nose, I am a mad merie grig, come to make thy grace laugh;

Such are "Jock o' the Side," "Johnnie Armstrong," "Hobbie Noble" and "The Death of Parcy Reed.

"The Laird's Jock ane, the Laird's Wat twa, O Hobbie Noble, thou ane maun be!

Thy coat is blue, thou has been true Since England banished thee to me." Now Hobbie was an English man, In Bewcastle dale was bred and born;

"Your armour gude ye maunna show, Nor yet appear like men of weir; As country lads be a' array'd, Wi' branks and brecham on each mare." Sae their horses are the wrang way shod, And Hobbie has mounted his gray sae fine; Jock his lively bay, Wat's on his white horse behind.

" Then out and spake the gude Laird's Jock, "Now fear ye na', my billie," quo' he; "For here are the Laird's Jock, the Laird's Wat, And Hobbie Noble, come to set thee free.

"Now Jock, my man," quo Hobbie Noble, "Some o' his weight ye may lay on me.

An'naple, nurse of Hobbie Elliot of the Heugh-foot, a young farmer.

Armstrong (Grace), the bride-elect of Hobbie Elliot of the heugh-foot, a young farmer.

DAVIE OF STENHONSE, a friend of Hobbie Elliott.

DINGLE (Old Dick of the), friend of Hobbie Elliott of the Heugh-foot farm.

ELLIOTT, (Hobbie, i.e. Halbert), farmer at the Heugh-foot.

Mrs. Elliott, Hobbie's grandmother.

John and Harry, Hobbie's brothers.

Lilias, Jean, and Arnot, Hobbie's sisters.

Doe you make your care the excuse of your cowardlinesse? Three boyes on hobbie-horses with three penny halberts, Would beat you all.