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To oppress the oppress'd his intentions were firm,
He thought of no last day, but-last day OF TEBM !
Now spong'd on by worms, without preparation
To put in a Plea to death's declaration;

To his sins on record he can make no denial,
But submit to the verdict brought in at his TRIAL.
Debarr'd from that sweet subterfuge of our Law,
To escape by misnomer, or seek for a flaw.

How unlike to our Courts is that kingdom of terror, Where, in all their proceedings,-there's no Writ of Error!

Ye Bailiffs who pass by the tomb of this man,
Reflect and have mercy whenever you can ;
And be sure that the greater compassion you show,
When death claims his debt 'twill plead tenfold for
you.

ON PROVOST LITTLE.

TIN GREY-FRIARS' CHURCH-YARD.]

Memoriæ Proavi sui paterni, Gulielmi Little, a superiori Liberton, Edinburgi quondam præfecti, Pronepos posuit.-1683.

Hic etiam, apud fratrem, Magister Clemens, Consule natu major, in Metropoli Commissarius, manet Resurrectionem.

Qualis at ille Clemens, quam magnus & ille Litellus,
Hoc cives, illud Bibliotheca docet.

Nobile par fratrum! Meritis certatur utrinq;
Metropolin, Musis, hic fovet, ille favet.

To the Memory of his great-grand-father, on the father's side, William Little of Over-Libertoun, some time Provost of Edinburgh, his greatgrand child erected this Monument 1683.

Here also, beside his brother, Mr Clement, elder than the Provost, Commissarie in Edinburgh, the Metropolitan, waites the Resurrection.

What Clement was; how great that Little were,
This citizens, that Bibliotheck declare,
This noble pair of brethren did contend,
In merits great, each other to transcend.
For both did good: this to the mother town,
That, to the muses; whence came their renown.

ON LADY YESTER'S TOMB, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF

THE VESTRY.

It's needless to erect a marble tomb;

The daily bread, that for the hungry womb,
And bread of life thy bounty hath provided,
For hungry souls, all times to be divided;
World-lasting monuments shall rear,
That shall endure, till Christ himself appear.
Pos'd was thy life, prepar'd thy happy end,
Nothing in either was without commend.
Let it be the care of all who live hereafter,
To live and die like Margaret Lady Yester:

Who dyed 15 March 1647.-Her age 75.

WITHOUT, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE VESTRY.

Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord; they rest from their labours: and their works do follow them.-Revel. 14. 13.

M. K.

Buried 25 March 1647.-Her age 75.
Church built 1644.

ON MR BARCLAY.

[IN DUNDEE CHURCH-YARD.]

Barclaium forsan culpas, de cœlibe vita;
Falleris, uxores duxerat ille novem.

Of Barclay's single life, if you complain,
You err; he had for wife the muses nine.

INSCRIPTION ON THE EARL OF MURRAY'S MONUMENT IN ST GILES'S CHURCH.

Below his coat of arms, it is written on the south side towards the left hand, Pietas, sine vindice, luget; and on the north side of the monument, on copper-plate, towards the right hand, Jus exarmatum est;-underneath, over both sides,

23 Januarii. 1569.

Jacobo Stovarto, Moravia Comiti. Scotia proregi; viro, ætatis suæ, longe optimo: ab inimicis, omnis memoriæ deterrimis, ex insidiis extincto, ceu patri communi, patria morens posuit.

Godliness mourns without a defender. Law is disarmed.

To James Stewart, Earl of Morray, viceroy of Scotland; the far best man of the age he lived in; slain at ambush by his enemies, the worse persons in all memory: as to a common father, the mournful country erected this Monument.

INSCRIPTIONS.

On the Sword of Sir John the Graham, in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Mon

trose.

Sir Jone ye Grame verry vicht and wyse,
One of ye chiefes relievit Scotland thryse,
Faught vith y's
svord and ne'r thout schame,

Commandit nane to beir it bot his name.

On the Lintal of a Door in the Maygate of Dunfermline.

According to tradition, an ecclesiastic of the abbey - lived in the premises in days of yore, whose life was not exactly squared by the rules of the church. To deter malicious tongues from tatling, the following distich was put over the door. where it is still to. be seen.

Sen vord is thrall, and thot is fre,
Keep vil thy tonge I coinsell the.

At the head of the Broad Street in Stirling, stands an old Building known by the name of Marr's Wark, over one Door is the following inscription:

The moir I stande on oppin hitht,
My favlts moir svbject are to sitht.
Over the other is:

I praiy al lvikaris on this bigin
Wi genteil ie to mark thair ligine.

On the Bridge over the River Teath, at Doune, eight miles above Stirling, built by Robert Spittal, tailor to King James V.

In God is al mi trast, qod Spittal. The 10 da. of September, in the yeir of God 1535 yeris, fundit was this Brig be Robert Spittel, tailyor to the maist Noble preces, Margaret, Daughter to King Jamis the feird, if al me is.

M. D. XXXV.

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