falt Wha can sit still and smoothlie heere Their companie baith banne and swere Which euill custome drawes on also Themselues to swearing or they go Great cause sall sic haue to lament Except in tyme they do repent His other speaches all are pend In prose as after shall be kend He craued one thing feruentlie That he might end this miserie From time he sawe some of the Kirk Not vprightly beginne to wirk Bot Christ his cause for to betray This speach on dead bed when he lay He vttered oft with hart full sare Crauing dissoluing without mare Bot cheiflie sen the Assemblie Halden the date of seuentie thrie And saxt of March where many man In Edinburgh assembled than The double dealing he saw thare Past neuer from his heart but mare Na seiknes could make him forget That last Assemblie as it set Touching the quhilk what he spake thare Now is not needfull to declare Gods iust Iudgements he did foresee Approching fast to this Cuntrie When some said Sir why do ye craue So earnestly this lyfe to laue He sayd Brethren sawe ye I wisse The sight I see of heauenly blisse And contrarewise gif ye did see A blink of that great misery That vnto Scotland fast doth hy Ye wald wish death as well as I So great is our ingratitude Persauing then 〈◊〉 to conclude That he wes to depart this life He sent hame quicklie for his wife Quha but all tarying came thare Fra she got word with heart full sare She raid that wilsome wearie way Neir fourtie myles on Law Sunday Be she had beene there dayes thrie He parted from this miserie Till heauens blisse I am right sure His soule on Thursday next did sure So gude Iohn Knox he followed sone Within a yeare and halfe was gone Then did the Lard of Lochinvar With all the Cuntrie far and naâ—â— In ane litter his corps bring downe On Fryday to Dammellintoune That night fyfteene nights he didly There blyth and glaid as he came by That night his body brought on beir An haâ—stie change we may see heir In earth is na mair constancie Then wherefore pride-full should we be Or in these earthlie things confyde As we were euer heir to byde Sen we see all of women borne Bot this day hâ—ir away to morne Bot ane kennis not another gude On Saterday then to conclude The four and twentie of Aprile The Lairds and Gentil-men of Kyle Yea baith of high and lawe degrie Met him therewith sic Assemblie As was not seene in Kyle before This hundreth yeares and many more Many wette cheaks at that meeting There might be seene with sare sighing It wald haue made anes hart full sare To see the meeting that was thare Though they knewe he was well but doubt Yet their affections bursted out And could not let them to lament For losse of sic an Instrument So they receiued the corps that day From Lochinvar and Galloway And with all honour did it bring Unto the Kirkyard of Machling Where they did burie him but mare And sa I leaue him lyand thare And will speake something of his wife Wha shortly after left this life For as thay were baith ioynd in hart Sa death almost could not them part And as in life thay did agrie So death could not keepe them sundrâ—â— For in Aprill the twentie tway He did depart in Galloway In Iune next she gaue vp the ghost About the midst of it almost In the hote feauer she also Out of this miserie did go In Iames Bannareins house of Air For short before she had past thare Thinking to liue most quietly Among that godly company For the hale race of all that hous Of Kinyeancleugh are right zealous And of lang tyme hes sa bene kend The Lord assist thame to the end For Robert and this Iames of Air Sister and brother barnis ware And sa nane meeter she could finde For to remaine withall behinde Bot God had ordaind what should mair That she should end her life in Air Fra her husband wes brought on beir She had no pleasure longer heir Bot did desire most hartfullie At Gods pleasure with him to be Quhilk she obteined in short space And so was caried to that place In the Kirkyarde where he dois ly Of Machling and layd hard him by Lang may ye seek to finde sic tway As God there nowe hes tane away For what man he was I haue told Of singular graces manifold And as for her the trueth to tell Among women she bure the bell During her daies in her degrie In godlines and honestie Of Iudgement rypest in Gods Law Of any woman that I knaw In Gods buke she was so verse it That scarce wald men trow to rehearse it Of so excellent memorie And al 's of sic dexteritie Gods word to vse to her comfort And theirs who did to her resort That her to heare it was delyte In Scriptures she was so perfyte Quhilk was not words and babling vaine Bot words with knawledge ioynd certaine Quhilk in her life she did expresse By doing as shee did prosesse All Gods true seruants far and neir She did esteeme as Freinds most deir And neuer loued societie With any godlesse companie Baith wise and provident was sho In houshold things she had ado Quhat should I say this woman od Was his great comfort vnder God And doubtles was of God a blessing Of speciall gifts after his wishing So for to end as I began I wait sic ane woman and man Of so many gude properties Of rare and heauenly qualities Is not in Scotland left behind Whais waytaking we be not blind Should make vs clearlie vnderstand That Gods iust Iudgments are at hand To punish the Rebellion Of this maist stubborne nation Who to Gods will dois not attend For no punition he dois send For we may easilie considder The waytaking of thir together Of so excellent behaueours And that almost bot in their flowers For nane of them was past throughlie The age of fourtie yeares and thrie Is not for nought what euer it be That is to followe hastelie For why sic as the Lord God loues Before the plague he oft remoues According as the Scripture sayes Quhilk shortned good Iosias dayes With many others that are past And that great plagues approched fast Gude Robert as we heard before Foresawe and plainly did deplore As all man grant as well as he That hes Iudgment or eies to see Therefore sen they are tane away For to fore warne vs all I say That God is reddy for to come With plagues to punish all and some That dois delight in wickednes In reif murther and filthines And covatyce whereof they grow Quhilk this hale Cuntrie dois ouerflow And all the lang rebellion To God within this Nation Whose Iudgements now we see appeare And their forerunners drawing neere Let vs with all the speed we can Go hide vs with the prudent man That seis the plague while it is far And hydes himselfe or it come nar By turning vnto Christ our King And hyding vs vnder his wing Wha in all tempest wind and preace Is our refuge and hyding place As Isay in the thirtie tway Of that his Prophecie dois say So we of safetie shall be sure What euer plagues euill men endure On whome that great day but releif Shall suddainely come as a theif And turne in twinkling of ane eye Their Ioy and mirth to miserie And we shall passe for evermore To raigne with Christ our King in glore Who saued vs and none but he Bearing our sinnes vpon the tree To whome therefore euer be praise And to the Father eik alwaies And to the holy Spirit most free One onely God and persones three FINIS
had worthie men before Of all degries these fyftene yeers As the gude Regent with his feeres Iohn Knox that valyant Conquerour That stood in many stalward stour For Christ his Maister and his word And many moe I might record Some yet aliue some also past Erle Alexander is not last Of Glencarne but these I passe by Because their deeds are alreddy By sundrie Poets put in write Quhilk now I need not to recite But forward to my purpose fare That is to speake without in mare Of twa best liueâ—â— that led life Gude Robert Campbel and his wife Departed baith now of the late To heauens blisse richt well I wate Sic twa I knowe not where to finde In all Scotland left them behinde Of sa great faith and charitie With mutuall loue and amitie That I wat an mair heauenly life Was neuer betweene man and wife As all that kend them can declair Within the shiresdome of Air. But to be plainer is no skaitâ—â— Of surname they were Campbells baith Of ancient blood of this Cuntrie They were baith of Genealogie He of the shirefs house of Air Long noble famous and preclair Scho of a gude and godly stok Came of the old house of Cesnok Quhais Lard of many yeares bygaine Professed Christs Religion plaine Yea eightie yeares sensyne and mare As I heard aged men declare And al 's a cunning Scottish Clark Called Alisius in a wark Written to IAMES the fift our King Dois this man for his purpose bring Quha being to the scaffold led In Edinburgh to haue thold dead For Christs Euangell quhilk he red by Iames the fourth from death was fred Some sayes death was alswel prepard For Priest and Lady as the Lard This storie I could not passe by Being so well worth memory Whereby most clearlie we may see How that the Papists louely lie Who our Religion so oft cald A faith but of fiftie yeare ald When euen in Scotland we may see It hes bene mair than thrise fiftie As by the storie ye may knaw Of Reshby burnt before Paule Craw The thousand yeare foure hundreth fiue In Perth while Husse was yet aliue Sa of thir noble Houses ald Thir twa descended as is tald They had gude heritage in deede Whereto iustlie he did succeede For any Gentleman aneuch Whais cheif style was the Kinyeancleugh Standing be-sowth Machline in Kyle About thre quarters of a myle But to our purpose to proceede And speak of him who was the heede Of her a while holding our toung When that Religion was but young And durst not plainlie shew her face For tyrannie in publict place Some Preachers did till him resort Where mutuallie they gat comfort The trueth on their part was declard No temporall benefits he spard They lacked not gude intreatment In daylie food and nurishment Gif there wes mare necessitie They needed not to craue supplie Ha priuatelie in his lodgeing He had baith prayers and preaching To tell his freinds he na whit dred How they had lang bene blindlins led By shaueling Papists Monks and Friers And be the Paipe these many yeares When some Barrones neere hand him by And Noble men he did espie Of auld who had the truth profest To them he quicklie him addrest And in exhorting was not slak That consultation they would tak How orderlie they might suppresse In thair owne bounds that Idole messe In place thereof syne preaching plant To quhilk some noble men did grant And so their cace did humblie meene Oft to the Counsell and the Queene That this their sute might be effected But seing it meerely neglected They did their minds freelie disclose In counsell set for that purpose Of Queene and whole Nobilitie Protesting in humilitie They sought no alteration Of State but of Religion That Papistrie being supprest Christ might be preached East and West And seeing they were Magistrates As well as other of the States They would not suffer God his glore In their bounds thralled any more Quhilk they did soone performe in deede And made them to the work with speede And had some preaching publictlie Where people came maist frequentlie Whiles among woods in banks and brais Whiles in Kirkyards beside their fais Thir Novells through the Countrie ran Quhilk stirred vp baith wife and man So for to damne that deuillish Messe That Papists could them not suppresse Then Queers and cloisters were puld down In sundrie parts of this Regioun But whether it was night or day Gude Robert was not mist away When thay puld downe the Friers of Air Speir at the Friers gif he was thair The Lard of Carnale yet in Kyle Quha was not sleipand al this while And Robert wer made Messengers Send from the rest to warne the Friers Out of those places to deludge Howbeit the Earls began to grudge Either with good will or with ill The keyes they gaue thir twa vntill After their gudes they had out tane So greater harme the Friers had nane Far vnlike to their crueltie In their massacring houtcherie Resembling well their old Father Who euer was a murtherer Authoritie was hard to bide Quhilk Papists had vpon their side Or rather to speake properlie Cheif persones in authoritie Therefore no time was for to sleuth To them who did professe the trueth Howbeit they wanted not that tyde Chiefe Counsellers vpon their side And greatest Nobles not a fewe And of all other States anewe Who rightly in defence might stand Of Gods owne cause they had in hand Professing aye obedience In ciuill things vnto their Prence In contrare whereof nane can say That they did practise night or day In cause of reformation Quhilk serues for confutation Of all our enemies eche one That blames vs with seditione As by the word of God is plaine But that we may returne againe Then Robert like a busie Bie Did ride the post in all Countrie Baith North and Sowth baith East and West To all that the gude cause profest Through Angus Pyfe and Lawthiane Late iournies had he many ane By night he would passe forth of Kyle And slip in shortly in Argyle Syne to Stratherne and to all parts Where he knew godly zealous harts Exhorting them for to be stoute And of the matter haue no doubt For although said he we be few Hauing our God we are anew So no expenses he did spare Nor trauells to ride late and aire To get concurrance from all partes Which was obtaind with willing hearts So great this wark was first to band To plant Religion in this land And tantae molis wes this gear Religion this way to vprear Though we with ease the kirnell eate The shel was not broken but sweate Thus many mirk midnight raid he And that all for the libertie Of Christis Kirk and the Gospell Sic carefull trauells I you tell Deserues well gude memorie And to be put in Poetrie In English Latine Dutch and Dence To stirre vs vp with diligence When men nowe are become
of peace His godly courage did not cease As might be known when he did weild His wepons at the Lang-side Feild When our men breisted vp the bank He wes there in the formost rank Bot yet or thay began to yoke Immediatelie before the choke His sloghorne I cannot passe by Our men on his left hand gan cry A Hume a Hume with voces shill Ane vther voce vpon the hill He heard crying a Dowglasse fast Then bursted Robert forth at last And cryed with mightie voice abrode O our good God O our good God Quhilk wes mair fearfull to his Fais Nor all the voces there that rais We see in flesh he nothing bostis His trust was in the Lord of Hosts He was perswaded certainlie Or they began of victorie As the escheat quhilk he obteind Before the field of a chiefe freind Wha wes vpon the contrare syde With all that there with him wold ryde Whais name I need not till expresse Of his foreknowledge bure witnesse Where also we haue to considder How that thir twa spake not togidder Before that Feild many a day And yet Gude Robert did not stay Before hand to take his escheit And that all for his Freinds proffeit Quhilk wes a taken on his part Of a most kinde and louing hart I trowe fewe men wold haue done so But to our purpose let vs go He stood then in that stalward stowre Where there were many dintis dowre So in that brunt maist valyantly That day he did full dowghtely While victory wes on our side And enemies no more might bide That day ane pleasant Feild fand he As his Sur-name dois signifie So evermore sen we began He hes bene ane maist constant man Not whites on this side whiles on that As barnes vse to flae the wyld-cat Quhilk shall make his name last for ay In honour vnto Domisday Where as starters from syde to syde Who be the gude cause did not byde Shall leaue their names eternallie In shame to their posteritie Because Gods cause they did bot mock Ay turning with the Wedder-cock Where they that with the Lord indure Shall finde his loue constant and sure As it appeareth wele ynough In Robert of the Kinyeancleugh Whome God did honour every way In life and death and shall for ay Nowe beside this great carefulnesse In reformations gude successe I wait a mare peaceable man Was neuer sen the warld began Among Neighbours for to make peace God granted him a singular grace So wisely he could matters dresse With Iudgement and sic vprightnesse That euen Papists would not refuse This Ireneus for to chuse In warldly caces for they kend Ane iote from right he wald not bend For no man leuand freind nor fa I trow he left fewe marrowes ma The Nobills haill out through the west Baith Protestants and all the rest His great wisedome did reuerence Sa that in things of importance His counsell they did sute and craue In their affaires and it receaue His labours he did not deny To pure nor rich that dwelt him by So to the West he made sic â—â—eade That they may sare lament his dead I trowe sic missing of a man Wes not in Kyle sen it began As the lamenting every whare Out through that Cuntrie dois declare Bot chiefly pittie is to heare His tennants pure with drery cheare And heauie harts making their mone That their good Maister now is gone Quha in no sort did them oppresse Bot wes their comfort in distresse He tuke payment aye as they might And neuer preassed them to hight Nor ouer their heades to set their rowmes Nor make them pure with great gressowmes He neuer warned man to flit Except himselfe had wyte of it Be vnthrift sluggishnes and slewth Or by contempt of God his trewth With sic na wayes he could agree That they should tennants to him be Most like vnto good Davids deed The hundreth one Psalme as we reed Yea he wald craib and much disdaine Gif they had tane Gods name in vaine Thir tennants dowbtles were happie That sic a Maister had as he They wanted not he had yneugh At hame within the Kinyeancleugh It did him gude to see them thriue Quhilk made ilk ane with other striue Quha should best seruice to him make And for to please him be maist frake His wife also was of his minde Though many be not of her kinde Bot on their Husbands daylie harp That to their tennants they be sharp Thinking their state can na wayes lest Except their pure-anes be opprest So that they haue not vntane vp Or Beltane come to byte or sup Syne hes their Sommer maill to by Wherefore they man sell sheep and Ky Quhilk dois vndoe in this Cuntrie The maist part of our Yeamanrie And brings great hurt ye may be sure Al 's to sic masters of thir pure Who be this sharp nipping are wrakked While they themselues are farre worse stakked And hes les luk baith but and ben Nor when there was gude husbandmen That to the Lard gude seruice made And bakkit him vnto the rade With bread and beefe vnto the boyes That nowe I wat not wha destroies But to returne againe but mare Gude Roberts Tennants sighes full sare That their gude Maister they do want Quhilk they do not but cause I grant But whairto should I speak of tha He was a Freind to many ma Yea and ma than I can declare As men can best meane their owne sare For in all parts baith North and Sowth They haue Gude Robert in their mouth The godly cheifly in all arts His death lamented from their harts Iohn Iohnstone writer well might say He mist a speciall Freind that day BARGANIE al 's may say the same And many ma whome I could name Bot how and where he did disceace I will declare nowe in this place As I haue shawen you heirtofore Of his greate trauells evermore For rich and pure for freind and fa He endit euen his life time sa For last his cheife and kins-man deir The young SHIREF of Air but weir Whome Robert loued tenderly For the many gude qualitie In that young plant he sawe appeare Of age not passing twentie yeare Sic as wisedome and lawlinesse Kindnes of heart with trustinesse Actiuitie and gude courage As may be found in sic ane age Quhilk gifts I pray God may incres With Gods true feare and zealousnes Now this his chiefe and kinsman toe Hauing some bissines adoe In Galloway therein welefar With his gude Father Lochinvar Desired Robert for to ryde With him in companie that tyde That there his counsell he might vse Gude Robert wald him not refuse Bot rayd with him maist willinglie To doe all friendly dewitie On Gude-Fryday when Sun was sett All in Dammellintone we mett For this time God provyded me In Roberts companie to be Where I sawe all things more and lesse That came to passe in this progresse In