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ROBERT SEMPILL [the younger] (1595?—1...

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:SEMPILL [the younger] (1595?—1665 ?) , son of the above, was educated at the university of See also:Glasgow, having matriculated in See also:March 1613. During the See also:Civil See also:War he fought for the Stuarts, and seems to have suffered heavy pecuniary losses under the See also:Commonwealth. He died between 166o and 1669. He married See also:Mary, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Lyon of Auldbar. His reputation is based on the ballad, " The See also:Life and See also:Death of Habbie See also:Simpson, See also:Piper of See also:Kilbarchan," written c. 1640. It is an interesting picture of the times; and it gave fresh See also:vogue to the popular six-lined See also:stanza which was much used later by See also:Ramsay, See also:Fergusson and See also:Burns (see particularly, Burns's " Poor Mailie's See also:Elegy "). Two See also:broadside copies were printed before 1700, and it appeared in See also:James See also:Watson's Collection of Poems (1706—1710). Sempill is supposed to be the author also of an See also:epitaph on " Sawney See also:Briggs, See also:nephew to Habbie Simpson," written in the same stanza.

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