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Rouse Memnons Mother from her Tythons Bed,
That Shee thy Cariere may with Roses spred.

— William Drummond of Hawthornden

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That Shee...] modernised: "That she may thy career with roses spread:"

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God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

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

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