Thy visage is ane emblem of thy heart Wheedling's thy trade, and spite of all commands III. THE POOR CLIENT'S COMPLAINT, DONE OUT OF BUCHANAN. From a broadside in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, upon which is written the following MS. Note. "Epigram 1. Book 1st, by Master Andrew Simpsone, Episcopale Minister, as is commonly reported; and he confessed it before Mr. Davide his sone, and Andrew Lawder, writer, his lodger, in Anno 1707 and thereafter." Simpson is well known for his zeal and sufferings for Episcopacy. He was the author of various works controversial, topographical, and poetical. His account of Galloway was a few years since published from a MS. in the Faculty Library by Thomas Maitland, Esquire, Advocate. The poem, if it can be so termed,―entituledTripatriarchichon, or the Lives of the three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, extracted forth of the sacred king, and digested into English verse. Edinburgh, 1705, 8vo,—is known to the book collector for its rarity; and to the book reader for its absurdity. Colin, by promise, being oblig'd to pay Being thus advis'd, away to Pate I trudge, For execution (alias indorsations), For interlocutors, for little acts, For large decreets, and their as large extracts, For hornings, for discussing of suspensions And for comprysings, or adjudications, For their allowances for registrations, With many other acts and protestations, Which may be summ'd up in one word-vexations. Then unexpectedly upon a small Defect alleg'd, Colin reduces all: We to 't again, and Aulus doth disjoint The process, and debates it point by point; Conform to course of roll.-When that will be Thus Aulus hath for ten years' space extended Vast sums, to wit, for washing, lodging, diet, For coal, for candle, paper, pen, and ink, And such like things, which truely one would think Were unsignificant, but yet they 've come In ten years' space unto a pretty sum. To macers, turnkeys, agents, catchpoles, pates, For rolls, for nacketts, roundabouts, sour kakes, This must be had, another doth prefer For apples, pears, plumbs, cherries, nuts, green peas, With forty other things I have forgot, Old Kirke. Aulus himself terms this a double loss, By all these means my expenses do surmount Th' unwary reader thinks perhaps that I IV. A LETTER FROM THE GHOST OF SIR WILLIAM ANSTRUTHER OF THAT ILK, ONCE SENATOUR OF THE COlledge of jusTICE, TO THE LORDS OF SESSION AND COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICIARY. From a MS. preserved in the Collections of the indefatigable Wodrow. Lord Anstruther was appointed a Judge of the Court of Session 1st November 1689: was nominated a Justiciary Judge 9th November 1704, and died at his lodgings in Edinburgh, 24th January 1711. He was the author of a work entituled "Essays Moral and Divine."-Edinburgh 1701, 4to. MY LORDS, Elysian Fields, 27 Jany. 1711. Having had the honour for several years to be one of your number, and being obliged, very much against my will, to leave soe good company and society, I tho't it my deuty to pay you my respects by this, which Charon promised to send to the earth, by the first messenger of death who should be ordered to the upper world. Of late, it seems he hath work enough upon his hands; for, till I arrived, poor John Adams, our macer, gote not on board, which I indeed first imputed to his civility to me, who, as he was informed, was quickly to follow, not considering that nobody works without wages, and that none are payed in our worlde. We no sooner got on board, but the boat was ready to sink; for John's soul remained still very ponderous and heavy, and mine, you know, was alwise terrestrial. However, at last, with great difficulty, we reached the happy shoer; and then, my Lords, and never before, I had a treu veu of justice, which here soe impartially reigns, that your Lordships, at present, cannot comprehend it, or have any notions of it. Never till now did I see a whole sett of honnest, knowing, piouse, and just judges; and it's weel that such are to be found somewhere. They are not here created by court favour, but the most deserving and |