Значение слова MACNEILL в Литературной энциклопедии

HECTOR (1746-1818).-Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, _The Harp_ (1789), _The Carse of Forth_, and _Scotland's Skaith_, the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as _My Boy Tammy_, _I lo'ed ne'er a Laddie but ane_, and _Come under my Plaidie_.