2792 on Drummond of Hawthornden. ao 
language of the Scipios, to be able to taste the beat. 
ties of the dunghill fight. ‘These slight notices and 
extracts, I have scattered on the pages of your ele- 
gant journal, in the fond hope that they may draw 
orth the quill of an abler eulogist. 
Tle ego qui quondam patriz perculsus amore, 
Civibus opprelsis, libertati succurrere ausim, 
Hunc arva pateina colo fugiosque-limina regum. 
ALBANICUS. 
POSTSCRIPT. 
“‘Wuat has been written concerning the person, 
family, and residence of Drummond, in-the account of 
his writings, may be thought sufficient for Scotland, 
where such particulars are well known by the pub- 
lic; but considering the deserved celebrity of the 
poet, and the-extensive circulation of this Miscellany, 
T have thought preper to set down as briefly as pof- 
sible some circumstances that may deserve the atten 
tion of people of taste who visit Scotland, te contem+ 
plate its picturesque beauties, and to meditate on the 
wlafsic footsteps of her illustrious citizens. 
Drummond was descended from William Drum. 
mond, third son of Sir John Drummond of Drum- 
mond, by Mary de Montefex eldest daughter and co- 
sheirefs of Sir William de Montefex, high justiciary 
of Scotland. The patriarch of the poet’s family married 
a daughter and co-heirefs of Sir William Airth of 
Airth, in Stirlingthire, with whom he got the barony 
_-of Carnoe. 
Sir John Drummond, the poet’s father, who was se 
~ ‘cond son of Sir Robert Drummond of Carroe,; bought 
Hawthornden, in the year 1598, from the heirs of 
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