"But the highest flight of his Muse appears in the following
_beautiful Alexandrine_:
"And was not Pharaoh a saucy rascal?
That would not let the children of Israel, their wives
And their little ones, their flocks and their herds, go
Out into the wilderness forty days
To eat the Pascal.
"H.B."
Speaking of Zachariah Boyd, Granger says, (vol. ii. p. 379.):
"His translation of the Scripture in such uncouth verse as to
amount to burlesque, has been often quoted, and the just fame
of a benefactor to learning has been obscured by that cloud
of miserable rhymes. Candour will smile at the foible, but
applaud the man.
"Macure, in his account of Glasgow, p. 223., informs us he
lived in the reign of Charles I."