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<HEAD>BOTHVVELL BANKS IS BONNY: OR, A De&s;cription of the New Mylne of <HI>Bothwell.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Who can blame my woe.</HI></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>I Waking by the Chri&s;tall &s;treams</L>
<L>of Clyd, at all good lea&s;ure:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">e Month which keeps the name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">at brave &s;econd <HI>Ce&s;ar.</HI></L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="4 letters">h bonny blooming <HI>Bothwel</HI> banks,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> (to paint truth on Paper)</L>
<L><HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="4+ letters">o&s;e</HI> with all his martiall ranks,</L>
<L>victoriou&s;ly did vaper.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And pa&s;&s;ing b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> a path did lead</L>
<L>by <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Br<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t feitly.</L>
<L>A <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> which mov<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d me to take heed,</L>
<L>did &s;ing and &s;ay mo&s;t &s;weetly.</L>
<L>Since <HI>Ceres</HI> with her golden arts,</L>
<L>hath now begun t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> haunt thee:</L>
<L>We &s;hall con&s;ent, with joyfull hearts,</L>
<L>we cannot live and want thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which voice it &s;elf could no &s;oon bound,</L>
<L>though &s;olemnly it &s;ounds it:</L>
<L>Till at the very ju&s;t rebound,</L>
<L>the vocall Nymph re&s;ounds it.</L>
<L>Which as upon <HI>Apollo's</HI> harp,</L>
<L>doth &s;trike upon the waters.</L>
<L>And friddouns there both flat and &s;harp,</L>
<L>then mu&s;ing on &s;uch matters.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I went &s;traight-way to <HI>Meggats</HI> &s;tone,</L>
<L>and there without ce&s;&s;ation</L>
<L>I found of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e things eachone,</L>
<L>t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">d demon&s;tration:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">hius</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> his daughter fair</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">pe</HI> did <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>In a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">cour&s;e with me ju&s;t there,</L>
<L>of Clyds delights the Center:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;aid they were to go about</L>
<L>to clear the &s;umme for certain,</L>
<L>Of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">uture things was to fall out,</L>
<L>till now, which &s;eem'd uncertain.</L>
<L>Then to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> conform to whats before,</L>
<L>they had a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ong contrived,</L>
<L>The Nymphs that <HI>Bothwel</HI> Banks decore,</L>
<L>to prompt the &s;ame &s;ub&s;cribed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Unto the plea&s;ant Birds in Banks,</L>
<L>as Organs fit to vent it;</L>
<L>With chearfull notes then gave they thanks,</L>
<L>in token they a&s;&s;ented.</L>
<L>The &s;ubject a prime aedifice</L>
<L>of &s;tately &s;tamp and modell:</L>
<L>Was never &s;een &s;uch rare device,</L>
<L>within the Banks of <HI>Bothwel.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This hou&s;e they &s;traightway con&s;ecrate</L>
<L>to <HI>Ceres</HI> her devotion,</L>
<L>To hold heer choi&s;e&s;t Courts thereat,</L>
<L>again&s;t all contrare motion,</L>
<L>To which the Dame gave her paroll,</L>
<L>and &s;aid this &s;entence &s;myland,</L>
<L>This &s;hall be my chief Capitall,</L>
<L>within all <HI>Britain's</HI> Iland.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And there anone within a &s;pace,</L>
<L>&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">a &s;he had once po&s;&s;e&s;t it;</L>
<L>Great pontifex unto that place,</L>
<L>the noble <HI>Cors</HI> inve&s;ted</L>
<L>A Knave f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> Vicar, to allot,</L>
<L><UNCLEAR>&s;he</UNCLEAR> was <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">g a-granting.</L>
<L>For <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ew M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lls want a jot</L>
<L>of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> never wanting.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This &s;uffragan mu&s;t wear one form,</L>
<L>&s;till after his in&s;talling:</L>
<L>A Cap and Ca&s;&s;ick both conform,</L>
<L>and proper to his Calling.</L>
<L>His Orbs, his Sphears, his Font, his Fire,</L>
<L>&s;till arte by arte advancing:</L>
<L>All run, turn, burn at his de&s;ire,</L>
<L>his Sirp cloths white and glancing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nest <HI>Robin</HI> they creat off hand,</L>
<L>their Herauld with commi&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Who fairly took it off their hand,</L>
<L>and that with low &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Robin</HI> with his Crim&s;on brea&s;t,</L>
<L>on tops of Trees doth venter,</L>
<L>For to proclaim a Chri&s;tmas Fea&s;t</L>
<L>to all the Birds in Winter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For lorge&s;&s;e, &s;ayes he, of that lot</L>
<L>wherewith Dame <HI>Ceres</HI> &s;erv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d us,</L>
<L>That we have found an Antidote</L>
<L>again&s;t our foes that &s;tarv'd us:</L>
<L>For when the&s;e Tyrants, &s;cant and cold,</L>
<L>makes us to chirp and chitle,</L>
<L>Wee'l find &s;ome Cordials at this Hold</L>
<L>more priz'd by us then Pearl.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This &s;ervice done, the Birds re&s;ort</L>
<L>to <HI>Robin,</HI> and can thank him:</L>
<L>And &s;inging to his prai&s;e a port,</L>
<L>among the be&s;t they rank him.</L>
<L>Yet for all that, the Fowles of rief</L>
<L>has <HI>Robin</HI> &s;mally thanked,</L>
<L>For why, no kind of Fle&s;h or Beef</L>
<L>was to be at that Banquet.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For lacking that all kind of Grain</L>
<L>by them is much abhorred:</L>
<L>And &s;o they count his &s;ong in vain,</L>
<L>but <HI>Robin</HI> car'd not for it.</L>
<L>Yet woe to hear poor <HI>Progne</HI> flyte,</L>
<L>with Tunes not very plea&s;ant:</L>
<L>He knew, the cau&s;e was of her &s;pite</L>
<L>that &s;he could not be pre&s;ent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;wage fair <HI>Progne</HI>'s wrath, ju&s;t now</L>
<L>when fruits are ripe in &s;ea&s;on:</L>
<L>To make an In-fare they all vow,</L>
<L>as be&s;t becomes, and rea&s;on.</L>
<L>The which they hold with merry je&s;t,</L>
<L>and all to &s;hew their breeding.</L>
<L>The <HI>Lark</HI> was Min&s;trell to the Fea&s;t</L>
<L>all time they were a-feeding.</L>
<L><HI>Bacchus</HI> and <HI>Ceres</HI> both, no doubt</L>
<L>were there but for &s;urprizes:</L>
<L>To <HI>John Cors</HI> gave &s;trait warrants out,</L>
<L>ju&s;t at the next a&s;&s;izes,</L>
<L>Hunger to hang, that cut-throat lown,</L>
<L>unworthy their tuition:</L>
<L>And drought without delay to drown,</L>
<L>by legall execution.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then each Bird de&s;cant &s;ome new &s;pring,</L>
<L>each other &s;till out-&s;tripping:</L>
<L>In dance, the <HI>Partridge</HI> led the ring,</L>
<L>that never tyres of tripping.</L>
<L>The <HI>Merle,</HI> for more Ale he cryes,</L>
<L>&s;ayes Prea't, Brew-thick, who'l vent it:</L>
<L>When Ho&s;tlers hears of that brave gui&s;e,</L>
<L>we hope they &s;hall re&s;ent it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Fea&s;t to crown, the <HI>Cock</HI> &s;o &s;hrill,</L>
<L>as Trumpeter elected:</L>
<L>He blew a bla&s;t, which to the Mill</L>
<L>made head, as he directed.</L>
<L>With which there's few can be compar'd</L>
<L>for double Gri&s;t, or Grad&yogh;ean:</L>
<L>Her Clap, with ea&s;e, may well be heard</L>
<L>through Ea&s;t and We&s;t <HI>Moormad&yogh;ean.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Much folk fortell, that of her good</L>
<L>they will be much the better:</L>
<L>Both Fowl in Wood, and Fi&s;h in Flood,</L>
<L>confe&s;&s;e to be her debter.</L>
<L>To her all <HI>Bothwell</HI> Nymphs cry out,</L>
<L>our ble&s;&s;ing &s;till do haunt thee:</L>
<L>So long as thou may turn about,</L>
<L>we cannot live and want thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then who can think this aedifice</L>
<L>were not worth our de&s;cription:</L>
<L>Not wanting a rare Fronti&s;pice,</L>
<L>fixt with a fair in&s;cription.</L>
<L>So &s;urely &s;ituate on a Rock,</L>
<L>that no deludge can daunt her:</L>
<L>Still ca&s;ting up a &s;tately Dock</L>
<L>again&s;t the braes of <HI>Blantyre.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The double &s;treams comes her upon,</L>
<L>at fir&s;t which runs compactly:</L>
<L>Divided by a native &s;tone,</L>
<L>which cuts the &s;ame exactly.</L>
<L>Such branching &s;ure is not in vain,</L>
<L>which (if I prove leill gue&s;&s;er)</L>
<L>Serves both for him that flowres the Grain,</L>
<L>and for the fine Cloth dre&s;&s;er.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All this cryes up the Craft&s;-man &s;till,</L>
<L>and that in all di&s;cour&s;es:</L>
<L>Who, both in Fire-works has fine skill,</L>
<L>and als in Water-cour&s;es.</L>
<L>There's none beholds his plots, needs &s;trive</L>
<L>in any thing to check him:</L>
<L><HI>Timantus,</HI> though he were alive</L>
<L>would &s;corn for to correct him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who's gifted with (as the ca&s;e &s;tands)</L>
<L>to many's apprehen&s;ion,</L>
<L>For quick di&s;patch, <HI>Briarius</HI> hands,</L>
<L>and for his rare invention:</L>
<L>A <HI>Daedalus</HI> may well be call'd,</L>
<L>who, which did cau&s;e great mournings</L>
<L>At <HI>Athens;</HI> built in <HI>Crete</HI> that Hold,</L>
<L>with many doubt&s;ome turnings.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As he knows how (no doubt) with ea&s;e</L>
<L>like <HI>Daedalus,</HI> to manage</L>
<L>His &s;oaring flight, &s;afe ov'r the &s;eas,</L>
<L>of skaith, or any damnage:</L>
<L>For his Land-lord, we play, like things</L>
<L>that envies heat e&s;chewing:</L>
<L>May &s;afely, with well &s;oddered wings,</L>
<L>all perills pa&s;&s;e of ruine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In &s;ixteen hundreth fiftie eight,</L>
<L>of our mo&s;t ble&s;t Redeemer:</L>
<L>The fore&s;aid Month, the Mu&s;es taught</L>
<L>this &s;ong; let no mi&s;-deemer</L>
<L>Sini&s;terly con&s;truct our mind,</L>
<L>&s;ince that our prime intention</L>
<L>To &s;port and peace are &s;till inclin'd,</L>
<L>abhorring all di&s;&s;ent on.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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