Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 391. A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. |
| | | | | On the Duke of Brunswick’s Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792. |
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| WHEN Princes and Prelates, | |
| And hot-headed zealots, | |
| A’ Europe had set in a low, a low, | |
| The poor man lies down, | |
| Nor envies a crown, | 5 |
| And comforts himself as he dow, as he dow, | |
| And comforts himself as he dow. | |
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| The black-headed eagle, | |
| As keen as a beagle, | |
| He hunted o’er height and o’er howe, | 10 |
| In the braes o’ Gemappe, | |
| He fell in a trap, | |
| E’en let him come out as he dow, dow, dow, | |
| E’en let him come out as he dow. | |
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But truce with commotions, | 15 |
| And new-fangled notions, | |
| A bumper, I trust you’ll allow; | |
| Here’s George our good king, | |
| And Charlotte his queen, | |
| And lang may they ring as they dow, dow, dow, | 20 |
| And lang may they ring as they dow. | |
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