epistle to colonel de peyster

  and murdering wrestle,

  as, dangling in the wind, he hangs,

  a gibbet's tassel.

  but lest you think i am uncivil

  to plague you with this draunting drivel,

  abjuring a' intentions evil,

  i quat my pen,

  the lord preserve us frae the devil!

  amen! amen!