Excerpt from Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, Vol. 2 The fact is, Montrose was floored, and his head broken with his own stick. King Campbell's crown was not to be cracked by a classical couplet. What cared he for Ovid His readings from the book of Jonah were more to the purpose. And God be thanked, piped Lord Napier to those who would not dance, God be thanked I see his Majesty there; I am confident we Shall find the gracious effects of his presence. It was reckoning without his host, and being thankful for small mer cies. How Argyle must have chuckled, at this melancholy crow of the Old courtier from the stage appointed for delin quents. And how auld Durie, and young Durie, and brothers Balmerino and Burleigh, Hope and Humbie, at has genus omne, who had been tickled with his joke against Signior Puritano, must have winked knowingly at each other, as who Should say, he had better have taken the clean bill we offered him. Montrose, too, must have felt giddy as he gathered his legs again, and gazed at the departing shadow of Scotland's King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.