laird

Once I was call'd a great Fife laird, / I dwelt not far from the Hall-yard: / … / O! but it's long and many a year, / Since laſt my feet did travel here. / I find great change in old lairds places, / I know the ground, but not the faces, / Where ſhall I turn me firſt about, / For my acquaintance is worn out?

Now Wiſe, and Rich, and Worthie, and Wonderful, and Faithful and True, and Rare, & Charitable, and Great Laird of Carnwath, Be not Prowd, altho I Commend you at ſuch a Rate behind your back and yet never ſaw You; …