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So that my life be brave, what though not long?

— 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.

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

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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