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The Comyns are even now the most powerful nobles in Scotland, and with Carrick and Annandale in addition to their own broad lands, would be masters of Scotland, let who would be called her king.
Those who don't like me in it are those who don't want, and don't like to read it fresh from Shakespeare, and who hold by the 'fiend' reading of the character.... One of the best things ever written on the subject, I think, is the essay of J. Comyns Carr. That is as hotly discussed as the new 'Lady Mac' all the best people agreeing with it. Oh, dear! It is an exciting time!"
"Well, that used to be Cashcarrigan parish; and Father Comyns that's the parish priest in Cash don't live not two miles all out from there; and the widow Byrne's is six miles from where I live out yonder, if it's a step, and yet they must go and put Loch Sheen into this parish." Father Cullen's misfortunes still did not come home to Macdermot; he sat looking at the fire.
"What comyn folke in all this world," says a state paper in 1515 "may compare with the comyns of England in riches, freedom, liberty, welfare, and all prosperity? What comyn folke is so mighty, so strong in the felde, as the comyns of England?"
Froude's opinion 'A sturdy high-hearted race, sound in body and fierce in spirit, and furnished with thews and sinews which, under the stimulus of those "great shins of beef," their common diet, were the wonder of the age. 'What comyn folke in all this world, says a State Paper in 1515, 'may compare with the comyns of England in riches, freedom, liberty, welfare, and all prosperity?
"I wonder whether we ought to go out to the Comyns' to-morrow after all?" "My dear girl, why not? You'll have a very pleasant time there; and anyhow, it's too late to write and tell them you aren't coming." "We could wire in the morning," she said. "Frank, do you think we ought to go?" He looked a little surprised, but answered readily, "Not if you don't want to."
The last terrible incursion of Edward has spread that feeling far and wide, and while before it was but in a few counties of the lowlands that the flame of resistance really burnt, this time, believe me, that all Scotland, save perhaps the Comyns and their adherents, would rise at the call.
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