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Attempted in English.
To the Memory
Of that most dear,
That most holy M:Mother
The C:Church of S:Scotland

Stop, Traveller, read &and weep over

This Prodigy of Wickedness.

Beneath this Tomb are interred the sacred Remains

Of a most venerable Mother,

(O may She lie here concealed, rather ynthan be more &and more exposed to yethe Cruelties of yethe ProphaneProfane)

Who was dead while alive,

And alive while dead.

Oh Fact accurstaccursed &and incredible!

Most villainously bereaved of her Defender,1

Most miserably oppressed by Tyrants,

By yethe mitred Peers of a neighbouring NaonNation (I tremble to narrate it!) wickedly thrown down,
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By Courtiers impiously afflicted,

By some of her own ✝ Sons perfidiously deserted,

And by all yethe Bastards of qteverwhatever Kind most basely trampled upon, mangled &and insulted,

She at last was devoted a Sacrifice by yethe Suffrages of many,

Not to say of all,

And that too by the Fury of Fanatics!

Dost thou ask, Traveller,

In what Country this Prodigy of Wickedness was perpetrated?

In that Island,

Where the Monarch acts against Monarchy,

Churchmen against the Church,

Lawgivers against Law,

Judges against Justice,

Preachers (atheistically!) agtagainst Truth,

And where the Soldiery daringly, impudently

(Under the Command &and Influence of William the Cruel)
Run
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Run counter to all the Rules of Honour &and Humanity!

These monstrous Doings are a Shame &and Reproach unto us!

For because of Swearing, &and even Perjury, the Land mourneth!

To evidence which there are indeed many living &and recentX Witnesses.

Fie for Shame!—Fie for Shame!

Our dearest Mother of blessed Memory (alas!) was smitten with a Consumption,

In the Year 1688.2

She became quite lame (woe’s me!) both in Hands &and Feet,

In the Year 1707.3

At last wore out (Lord, have Mercy upon me!) wtwith many, very many, Shocks &and Miseries,

She expired in the Year 1748.4

O all ye Fathers, Sons &and Daughters,

Pray for Her,

That She may rest in Peace, &and at length obtain a happy

Resurrection. Amen.
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When Faith &and Piety were both ~~exil’d~~ revil’dreviled,

When perjur’dperjured Men their native King5 exil’dexiled,

Her God, her King, her Country She rever’drevered

With true Religion &and sincere Regard.

Scorning new Paths, She kept the straight old Road,

The sacred Course her pious Fathers trod.

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Ecclesiastics, MessrsMessieurs Livingston at Old-Deer, Skinner at Longside, Walker at Old-Meldrum,
Laing at Alford, &and Farquhar at Dumfries.6 Laics, All the Scots Members in the House of Commons,
All the Scots Members in the House of Peers, &and all such as went over either to the wide-
throated Jurants or to the unauthorized Presbyterian Teachers.

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Martin Lindsay, who very narrowly escaped being condemned at Carlisle; Robert Seton,
who was wounded almost to Death in making his Escape down the Country from the Field of
Culloden; John Fouliss, that old, bald, gray-headed Sinner, &and many others, who, contrary
to the Light of their own Minds, glibly swallowed down the bitter pill of Abjuration
in the memorable ÆraEra of Perjury, 1748.

Quis talia fando
Temperet a Lacrimis!
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