The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart. Edinburgh, Printed by the
Heires of Andro Hart. 1629, 4to. There be here 13 leaves of mervelously
barbarous metre: the whiche Maister Allan Ramsay, of especiale fame,
caused to be reimprinted in his werke entitled The Euergreen. This tome
containeth the original text, and is gretely desyred by the lerned in
Scotish poesie. It concludeth thus:
“Blind brock, loose dock, bord block, banished townes,
Alace, thiefes face, na grace, for that grunzie,
Beld bisset, marmissed, lansprezed to the lownes,
Deid dring, dry’d sting, thou wilt hing but a sunzie,
Lick butter, throat cutter, fish gutter, fill the fetter,
Come bleitand, and grietand, fast citand, thy laidley letter.
Finis.”