yes tri plane! but you gotta remember when Burns wrote that - it was the time of the French revolution and all its horrors. He could possibly talk to old people who remembered Jacobites being hung drawn and quartered. Peterloo, the Pentrich rioters - savage and horrible repressionin England.

Burns would not want to see his fellow Scots suffering again so terribly, at the hands of an England which didn't wear kid gloves..