_Lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie._--George Crawfurd, who wrote a _Peerage
of Scotland_, which was published in folio at Edinburgh in the year
1716, says, under the head of "Crawfurd, Viscount of Garnock," p. 159.,
that Malcolm Crawfurd, Esq., succeeded to the barony of Kilbirny in
right of Marjory his wife, daughter and sole heir of John Barclay of
Kilbirny; whereupon he assumed the coat of Barclay, and impaled it with
his own:
"Here it may be remarked," he continues, "that all the estate the
family ever had, or yet possesses, was acquired to them by
marriage: or lands so obtained were exchanged for others lying
more contiguous to the rest of their fortune; which gave occasion
to a friend to apply to them the following distich:
'Aulam alii jactent, at tu Kilbirnie, nube:
Nam quæ fors aliis, dat Venus alma tibi.'"
Which may be thus translated:
"Let others choose the dice to throw,
Do you, Kilbirny, wed:
On them what Fortune may bestow,
On you will Venus shed."