HOW DO WE RESPOND TO WILLIAM MCGONAGALL'S LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALL'S DEPARTURE FROM DUNDEE.?

..Out, damned Scot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to rhyme.--Hellish verses!--Fie, my lord, fie! a rhymer, and a bard? What need we fear who scans it, when none can call our poet to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much doggerel in him?

lady macbreath