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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XXV
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Alas! the discovery has only been made to render my quitting the world more difficult than when I thought I had thee only to regret." She rested her head on her hand and wept bitterly.
"All this is folly," said the glover.

"Never was there an extremity so pinching, but what a wise man might find counsel if he was daring enough to act upon it.

This has never been the land or the people over whom priests could rule in the name of Rome, without their usurpation being controlled.

If they are to punish each honest burgher who says the monks love gold, and that the lives of some of them cry shame upon the doctrines they teach, why, truly, Stephen Smotherwell will not lack employment; and if all foolish maidens are to be secluded from the world because they follow the erring doctrines of a popular preaching friar, they must enlarge the nunneries and receive their inmates on slighter composition.

Our privileges have been often defended against the Pope himself by our good monarchs of yore, and when he pretended to interfere with the temporal government of the kingdom, there wanted not a Scottish Parliament who told him his duty in a letter that should have been written in letters of gold.


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