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Six months after the date of this letter, Burns, back in Edinburgh, is served with a writ IN MEDITATIONE FUGAE, on behalf of some Edinburgh fair one, probably of humble rank, who declared an intention of adding to his family. About the beginning of December , a new period opens in the story of the poet's random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs.
Proximus dies faciem victoriae latius aperuit: vastum ubique silentium, secreti colles, fumantia procul tecta, nemo exploratoribus obvius: quibus in omnem partem dimissis, ubi incerta fugae vestigia neque usquam conglobari hostes compertum et exacta jam aestate spargi bellum nequibat, in fines Horestorum exercitum deducit. Ibi acceptis obsidibus, praefecto classis circumvehi Britanniam praecepit.
We aught him the siller, and will pay him wi' our convenience, or make it otherwise up to him, whilk is enow between prince and subject We are not in meditatione fugae, man, to be arrested thus peremptorily."
What would you have a warrant for? 'It is to apprehend a young lawyer that is IN MEDITATIONE FUGAE; for he has ta'en my memorial and pleaded my cause, and a good fee I gave him, and as muckle brandy as he could drink that day at his father's house he loes the brandy ower weel for sae youthful a creature.
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