[39] Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene ii.
[40] Essays, Civil and Moral, xviii.
[41] Works, p. 364.
[42] Ibid. p. 256.
[43] Works, p. 402.
CHAPTER II
Recalled Home—The Covenanting Movement—The Trot of Turriff—Our Author escapes to England—Is Knighted—Publishes his Epigrams—His Father's Embarrassments increase—Lesley of Findrassie—Death of Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior—Our Author struggles in vain to keep his Creditors at bay—Other Wrongs and Losses—On bad Terms with the Church.
