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To die for faction is a common evil,
But to be hanged for nonsense is the Devil.

— William Drummond of Hawthornden

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God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

My life lies in those eyes which have me slain.

This is the morn should bring unto this grove
My love, to hear and recompense my love.

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Here is the pleasant place,
And nothing wanted is, save She, alas!

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