You've done it again, Robbie Rob---a historical character heard in brief
elegance and insisting on his current relevance. What glorious joy to read
this!
One wee insistent note: how can we hear this in your own voice, Robbie Roy
M'Greegor?!
Judy your poem fanatic
Subject: Historical Snap
> THE BOYHOOD OF THE ADMIRABLE
>
> Nae joiner, wee Jimmy Crichton,
> neither Tongs nor Cumbie,
> an good at his books. Nae that
> he wisnae handy with his weapons.
> Naebody messed with him. See,
> he was just a touch mental. Polite,
> but still you could see it there.
>
> An they poems he made -- gallus!
> Off the top o his heid, an
> he never wrote them doon. Shame
> that, now he's gone.
>
> Where did yi say he was the now?
> Brigton? Aye, tae be expected.
> Didnae quite fit here, somehow.
> Mind you, the daft bugger never
> fitted onywhere. Odd that, but.
>
> Wonder whit'll become o him.
>
> Sir James Crichton, sometimes known as the Admirable Crichton.
> Born Perth 1560, killed in a fight in Mantua, 1582.
>
> Robin Hamilton 10.23am
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