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Updated: May 11, 2025
Bothan, driven off the beeves of Lauderdale, and fired homes that the inmates might have light by which to dress themselves." "In good sooth," replied Lord Marmion, "were I bent on war, a better guard I could not wish, but I go in form of peace, a friendly messenger to a foreign King.
'At first in heart it liked me ill, When the King praised his clerkly skill. Thanks to St. Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line. Marmion, canto vi. 15. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 10. Johnson often maintained this diffusion of learning. Thus he wrote: 'The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present.
Before the days of British rule the Brahmin was the priest and man of letters, the "clerke" in short. The rajahs and chiefs were much of the same mind as old Douglas: Thanks to Saint Bothan son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line, Gawain being a bishop.
'Thanks to St Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line, the Douglases were far too clever to go without education, and young nobles who knew anything knew a little Latin.
"Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine Could never pen a written line."
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