Note 594 — REIGN OF GEORGE I.: 1714–1727. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Alexander Pennecuik, of Edinburgh, has a poem entitled A Curse on the Clan Macphersons, occasioned by the News of Glenbucket being murdered by them:
‘May that cursed clan up by the roots be pluckèd,
Whose impious hands have killed the good Glenbucket!
Villains far worse than Infidel or Turk,
To slash his body with your bloody durk—
A fatal way to make his physic work!
Rob Roy and you fight ’gainst the noblest names,
The generous Gordons and the gallant Grahams.
Perpetual clouds through your black clan shall reign,
Traitors ’gainst God, and rebels ’gainst your king,
Until you feel the law’s severest rigour,
And be extinguished like the base Macgregor!’
Pennecuik’s Poems, MS., Adv. Lib.