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Updated: May 11, 2025

There are plenty of priests, and stout young scholars, and such-like, about the house it's a hive of them. More shame that government send dragoons out after-a few honest fellows that bring the old women of England a drop of brandy, and let these ragamuffins smuggle in as much papistry and Hark! was that a whistle? No, it's only a plover.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet