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The fourth muse
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Forc'd them to yeeld, the traitours openly kild
The wals were raz'd againe, and fousies fild.[1]
Yet Baliol once more did obtaine the same,
And with new Fortunes much advance his name
But who doth not finde Fortunes fickle chance?
Whom erewhile she so highly did advance
To hold a scepter, and to weare a crown,
Now tyrannizing proudly pesters down:
King Edward came with fiftie thousand brave
To Perth, the Baliol, lead as captiv'd slave.[2]
Trust not in Kings, nor Kingdomes, nor applause
Of men, the World's a sea that ebbes and flowes,
A wheele that turnes, a reele that alwayes rokes
A bait that overswallowed men choaks.
Seditions rise againe, this Edward Windsore
With greater forces came, and made a winde sore
To blow through Scotland, minding a new conquest,
Did all things overwhelme, even as a tempest
Castles ov'rcome, strongly beligger Perth
It take, rebuild her wals, all thrown to Earth,
Upon the charges of sex Abacies,
With bulwarks, rampiers, rounds, and bastilies
Of squared stone, with towres and battlements,
Houses for prospect, and such muniments,
For strong defence, clouses and water fals,
With passage fair to walk upon the wals,
And spacious bounds within sojours to dreele,
To merch, to string, to turne about, and wheele.
These were the Abacies, Couper, Landores,
Balmerinoch, Dumfermling, Saint Androes,
The wals were raz'd againe, and fousies fild.[1]
Yet Baliol once more did obtaine the same,
And with new Fortunes much advance his name
But who doth not finde Fortunes fickle chance?
Whom erewhile she so highly did advance
To hold a scepter, and to weare a crown,
Now tyrannizing proudly pesters down:
King Edward came with fiftie thousand brave
To Perth, the Baliol, lead as captiv'd slave.[2]
Trust not in Kings, nor Kingdomes, nor applause
Of men, the World's a sea that ebbes and flowes,
A wheele that turnes, a reele that alwayes rokes
A bait that overswallowed men choaks.
Seditions rise againe, this Edward Windsore
With greater forces came, and made a winde sore
To blow through Scotland, minding a new conquest,
Did all things overwhelme, even as a tempest
Castles ov'rcome, strongly beligger Perth
It take, rebuild her wals, all thrown to Earth,
Upon the charges of sex Abacies,
With bulwarks, rampiers, rounds, and bastilies
Of squared stone, with towres and battlements,
Houses for prospect, and such muniments,
For strong defence, clouses and water fals,
With passage fair to walk upon the wals,
And spacious bounds within sojours to dreele,
To merch, to string, to turne about, and wheele.
These were the Abacies, Couper, Landores,
Balmerinoch, Dumfermling, Saint Androes,