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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03379	The muses threnodie, or, mirthfull mournings, on the death of Master Gall Containing varietie of pleasant poëticall descriptions, morall instructions, historiall narrations, and divine observations, with the most remarkable antiquities of Scotland, especially at Perth By Mr. H. Adamson.	Adamson, Henry.	1638 (1638)	STC 135; ESTC S100435	48,230	108

shovv Which I have found in an old manuscript But in our late records is overslipt Which storie no lesse probable is than true And my good Monsier I vvill show it you I leave to speak vvhat Hollinshed hath told Of Cunidag vvas Britaine king of old The time Vzziah was of Iuda king And Ieroboam did ov'r Israel reigne Ere Rome a citie was yeers fourtie five Ere sons of Rhea did for masterie strive Hovv that this Heathen built three cels of stone To Mercurie at Bongor built he one His vvay for to direct then to Apollo At Cornuel another did he hallovv For favourable response the third to Mars Where Perth novv stands for to assist his wars But good Monsier this storie is too old Therefore I leave the rest of it untold The time vvill not permit me to out-read it I 'm sure in Hollinshed yee often read it I will a storie of no lesse credite tell In after ages truely what befell When mightie Romaines came into this soile With endlesse labour and undaunted toile After great conflicts and uncertaine chance Of Fortunes dye they did in armes advance At length unto these parts where Perth doth stand Under the conduct and victorious hand Of that most valiant Chieftain of great fame Brave Iulius Agricola by Name And there hard by a river side they found The fairest and most pleasant plot of ground That since by bank of Tiber they had beene The like for beautie seldome had they seene Of eighteene hundreth paces good in length From Muretowne brays to foot of Carnaks strength King of the Pights which stood on Moredune hill The foot thereof from Friers dwelt thereintill Now named is in breadth eight hundreth paces Painted with white red yellow flowrie faces So equall fair which when they did espy Incontinent they Campus Martius cry And as an happie presage they had seene They fixt their tents amidst that spatious greene Right where now Perth doth stand and cast their trenches Even where Perths fowsies are between these inches The south and north and bastalies they make The power and strength of Scots and Pights to brake Who presently would fight by wise cunctation They frustrat all their hope and expectation For well this most victorius Romaine knew T' abate his Enemies rage and courage too Finding the place even to their hearts desire With grasse for pasture stor'd and wood for fire The river likewise verie opportune For lighter vessels to passe up and downe And correspondence with their Navie make As Souldiers wise they all occasions take And do conclude to winter in that place To foile their foes by voluntarie chace Meane while couragiously they do advise A bridge to build for further enterprise Then forthwith fall they with redoubling stroaks To fell the tall firre trees and aged oaks Some square the timber with a stretched line Some do the tenons and the morties joine Some frame an ovall others make a cub Some cut a section other some do grub Some with great compasse semicircles forme Some drive the wadges painfullie some worme Some do hoyse up the standers others fixe them And some lay goodly rafters ov'r betwixt them What strength or skill can work from point to point They cunningly contrive with angular joint And do most strongly binde these contignations To make them stand against all inundations All men are set on frame all hands are working And all ingines are bussied without irking Thus in short space a bridge they strongly make With passage fair and for their safeties sake A mightie strength to be they frame withall On either end a bridge to lift and fall That souldiers might within it keep at ease Admitting or repelling as they please Thus fortified lest that they should neglect Due honour to their gods they did erect To Mars a temple rather did restore The temple built by Cunidag before For time on all things worketh demolition And heathen men maintaine like superstition Then did this valiant chiftaine name the river In Italies remembrance Neo-Tiber Which afterwards it kept for many a day How long I know not now it s called Tay. Likewise an house of mightie stone he framed From whence our Castell-gavell as yet is named And if Domitian had not cald him home I think he should have built another Rome But all these monuments were worne away Ere did King William Perths foundation lay Only Mars temple stood upon that greene And th' house built by Agricola was seene And some characters cunningly incisde With Iulius Agricola imprisde In solid marmor and some print was found Where camped had an armie and the ground Where there had beene a bridge all which did yeeld Occasion to King William for to beild After old Bertha's overthrow that citie These ancient walls and famous bridge ah pitie If they were as But what doth not the rage Of men demolish and consuming age For good King William seeing where had beene Of old a passage forthwith did ordaine A mightie bridge of squaired stone to be These famous wals and fusies which we see Perth his chief strength to make and seat of power Did with most ample priviledge indue her These be the first memorials of a bridge Good Monsier that we truely can alledge Thus spake good Gall and I did much rejoice To heare him these antiquities disclose Which I remembring now of force must cry Gall sweetest Gall what ailed thee to die The fourth Muse. THis time our boat passing too nigh the land The vvhirling streame did make her run on sand Aluif vve cry'd but all in vain t' abide We were constrain'd till flowing of the tide Then Master Gall quod I even for my blessing Now let us go the pretious pearles a fishing Th' occasion serveth well while heere we stay To catch these mussels you call toyts of Tay It 's possible if no ill eye bewitch us We jewels finde for all our dayes t' enrich us The waters here are shald and clear and warme To bath our armes and lims will do no harme For these sweet streames have power to bring back Our spirits which in outward parts make slake Our naturall strength but when these sprits retire They multiplie our heat and inbred fire Helping our vitall and our naturall parts Our lungs our levers stomachs and our hearts And mightily refrigerat our reanes But above all they do refresh our spleans For such a bathing bravely doth expell Melancholie which makes the splean toswell More than it should causing an atrophie That we like skelets rather seeme to be Then men and Atropos appears to laugh Thinking we look liker an Epitaph Then marriage song likewise it doth us make Both supper and collation freshly take Content said Gall Then off our shoes we drew And hose and from us we our doublets threw Our shirt sleeves wreathing up without more speeches And high above our knees pulling our breeches In waters go then streight mine armes I reach Unto the ground whence

bairnely sport And as proud peacocks with their plumes do prank Alongst the bridge they merche in battell rank Till they came to the gate with yron hands Hard by where yet our Ladies chappell stands Thinking to break these bars it made some hover Too strong they were therefore some did leap over Some crept below thus many passe in by them And in their high conceat they do defie them Forwards within the town a space they go The passage then was strait as well ye know Made by a wall having gain'd so much ground They can exult Incontinent did sound A trumpet from a watchtowre then they start And all their bloud doth strike into their heart A wondrous change even now the bravest fellows In their own fansies glasse who came to quaile us The vitall sprits their artires do containe Their panting hearts now scarcely can sustaine Our souldiurrs then who lying were a darning By sound of trumpet having got a warning Do kyth and give the charge to tell the rest Yee know it well it needs not be exprest Many to ground were born great bloud was shed He was the prettiest man that fastest fled Yea happie had they been if place had served To flee then doubtlesse more had been preserved Within these bars were kill'd above threescore Upon the bridge and waters many more But most of all did perish in the chace For they pursued were unto the place Where all their baggage and their canon lay Which to the town was brought as lawfull prey What shall I more say if more you would have I 'le speake of these three hundreth souldiours brave Like these renown'd Lacedemonians Couragious Thebans valiant Thespians Resolv'd to die led by Leonidas Stop't Xerxes armie at Thermopylas Such were these men who for Religions sake A cord of hemp about their necks did take Solemnly sworn to yeeld their lives thereby Or they the Gospels veritie deny Quiting their houses goods and pleasures all Resolv'd for any hazard might befall Did passe forth of the town in armes to fight And die or they their libertie and light Should lose and whosoever should presume To turn away that cord should be his doome Hence of Saint Iohnstoun riband came the word In such a frequent use when with a cord They threaten rogues though now all in contempt It speak yet brave and resolute attempt And full of courage worthie imitation Deserving of all ages commendation Made these men put it on symbole to be They readie were for Christ to do or die For they were Martyrs all in their affection And like to Davids Worthies in their action Therefore this cord should have beene made a badge And signe of honour to the after age Even as we see things in themselves despised By such rare accidents are highlie prised And in brave skutsheons honourablie born With mottoes rare these symbols to adorn Thus some have vermine and such loathsome swarmes Yet honourably borne are in their armes And some have myce some frogs some filthie rats And some have wolfs and foxes some have cats Yet honourable respect in all his had Though in themselves they loathsome be and bad Thus Millaine glories in the bainfull viper As none more honour misterie none deeper The auncient Gaules in toads in lillies now Metamorphosde The Phrygians in their sow Athens their owle with th' Eagle will not barter And Honi soit who thinks ill of the garter What shall be said then of this rope or cord Although of all men it be now abhord And spoke of in disdaine their ignorance Hath made them so to speak yet may it chance When they shall know the truth they will speak better And think of it as of a greater matter And truely it esteeme an hundreth fold Of much more honour than a chaine of gold Thus may you see Monsier men of renown Of old time have possest this ancient town And yet this may we boast even to this day Men of good wit and worth do not decay For to this houre some footsteps still remaines Of such couragious hearts and cunning braines Good Master Gall quoth I I know that well Whereof you speak and clearly can it tell For I did say these Men being then of age Some twelue or threttene years a prettie page As easely you may guesse and can you show Some partiall poynts whereof you nothing know Nor are they written Then answered Master Gall A witnesse such as you is above all Exception therefore show what you did see Or heare good Monsier Your antiquitie Is of great credit Master Gall quoth I Much did I see and much more did I try My Father was a man active and wight In those dayes and who helped for to fight The battell of the bridge within few yeeres Thereafter was I borne then all our quires And convents richly stood which I did see With all their pomp but these things told to me First will I shew a storie of much ruth How that our Martyrs suffered for the truth Of Christs blest Gospell on Pauls holy day Before the fight was of the bridge of Tay In that same yeere the sillie Governour Led by the craftie Cardinall with power Held judgement on these men and under trust Condemned them nothing their bloudie lust Could satiat The Citizens made sure Their neighbours should nor losse nor skaith indure Go to their homes forthwith the Cardinall Causde lead them unto execution all And from the Spey towre window did behold Doome execut even as his Cleargie would Which treacherous fact did so enrage the town No credit more to black white nor gray gown After these dayes was given Thus in the place Where malefactors end their wicked race These innocents do make a blessed end And unto God their sprits they recommend In witnesse of the faith for which they die And by the Sprit of truth did prophesie These vvords looking and pointing vvith the hand Tovvards our Monasteries vvhich then did stand Most sumptuously adorn'd vvith steples bels Church ornaments and vvhat belongeth else These foxes which do lurke within these holes Delighting in the earth like blinded moles Drown'd in their lusts and swimming in their pleasures Whose God their belly whose chief joy their treasures Who caused have our death shall hunded be Forth of these dens some present heere shall see The same ere it be long then shall yee say Its for Gods truth that we have dyed this day And all these sumptuous buildings shall be cast Down to the earth made desolat and wast This to performe Gods zeale shall eat men up To fill the double potion in their cup The apples then of pleasure which they loved And lusted after shall be all removed Yea scarcely shall they finde a hole to hide Their heads thus by the Sprite they testified And in that day true Pastours shall the Lord Raise up to feed his flock with his pure word And make Christs people by peculiar choice Dignosce the