Seventh Friend: James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, "On Himself, upon Hearing What was his Sentence"
Today in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving, commemorating that well-known story of Native Americans helping out a bunch of proto-Yankee Puritans… Well, that was nice of them, I must give credit for that, but if the Natives had seen the future they may have followed the example of the friend we’re meeting today and done something far more laudable: not feeding Puritans, but fighting them.
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, is one of my favourite of the Cavalier poets.