... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.

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Remark as quoted in "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" (1976) by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. It was said in response to one of the lords of the King's Privy Chamber, who had asked what Fawkes intended to do with such a large amount of gunpowder.

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... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.

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