Note 192 — ABBOT OF MELROSE’S LODGING.
Reading edition
Cromarty, at seventy, contrived to marry ‘a young and beautiful countess in her own right, a widow, wealthy, and in universal estimation. The following distich was composed on the occasion:
Thou sonsie auld carl, the world has not thy like, For ladies fa’ in love with thee, though thou be ane auld tyke.’
C. K. Sharpe, Notes to Law’s Memorials, p. xlvii.