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Such Countreys Traverſ'd, or ſuch Battles won,
Such Conqueſts made, or ^[1] Conqueſts made ſo ſoon.

Where ſhall we all their ancient Glories trace?
Let's haſten down to Ramellies a pace;
But ſtop at Phillipſburg, and aſk Turenne,
And read their ancient Trophies on the Rhine,
How they did there the Gallick Name advance,
And by their Blood gave Plumes to ^[2] growing France
France, that on Foreign Valour raiſd their Throne,
By other Nations Swords, and not their own,
Strip't of that Help how eaſily they fall,
And faint like Jericho without her Wall.
Recall'd from hence they ^[3] Williams Sword obey,

And beat the French at Mons for ^[4] want of Pay;

↑ In two Years and three Quarters, they Over-run two third Parts of the Empire, and were posses'd of the whole Countrey from Wolfenbuttle in Westphalia, where Duke Hamilton with another Body of Scots acted, to Prague in Bohemia; and had the King of Sweden Out-lived the Battle of Lutzen, he had bid fair to have taken Winter Quarters at Vienna.
↑ To growing France. The Scots Regiments under the Viscount de Turenn, and particularly Douglass's Regiment, consisting then of 4 or 5000 Men, were the Flower of his Infantry, and help'd to make France Terrible; as at that time She was to all her Neighbours.
↑ Williams Sword. The Scots were Recall'd out of the French Service by King Charles the second, at the Instance of his Parliament, soon after the Marriage of the late King William then Prince of Orange, with the Princess Mary, a little before the Peace of Nimeguen, and Ordered to joyn the Prince of Orange's Army in Flanders.
↑ Want of Pay, When the Scots were Recall'd from the King of France's Service, they were very ill treated, carried to the Remotest Parts of France, and there Dismis'd with but very little Money, ordered to Travel but two or three together, the Countrey order'd not to Trust them; and every where great Rewards offer'd 'em to List, on purpose to force 'em unto their Service; by which means very few of that great Body reach'd Home, but they that did, Vow'd to be reveng'd of the French if ever they came to hands with them, which they made good at the Battel of Mons.

[1] In two Years and three Quarters, they Over-run two third Parts of the Empire, and were posses'd of the whole Countrey from Wolfenbuttle in Westphalia, where Duke Hamilton with another Body of Scots acted, to Prague in Bohemia; and had the King of Sweden Out-lived the Battle of Lutzen, he had bid fair to have taken Winter Quarters at Vienna.

[2] To growing France. The Scots Regiments under the Viscount de Turenn, and particularly Douglass's Regiment, consisting then of 4 or 5000 Men, were the Flower of his Infantry, and help'd to make France Terrible; as at that time She was to all her Neighbours.

[3] Williams Sword. The Scots were Recall'd out of the French Service by King Charles the second, at the Instance of his Parliament, soon after the Marriage of the late King William then Prince of Orange, with the Princess Mary, a little before the Peace of Nimeguen, and Ordered to joyn the Prince of Orange's Army in Flanders.

[4] Want of Pay, When the Scots were Recall'd from the King of France's Service, they were very ill treated, carried to the Remotest Parts of France, and there Dismis'd with but very little Money, ordered to Travel but two or three together, the Countrey order'd not to Trust them; and every where great Rewards offer'd 'em to List, on purpose to force 'em unto their Service; by which means very few of that great Body reach'd Home, but they that did, Vow'd to be reveng'd of the French if ever they came to hands with them, which they made good at the Battel of Mons.

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