O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind

Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

Pope: Homer's Odyssey, book xi. line 531.

[280:3] Let us swear an eternal friendship.—Frere: The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.

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ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN.  1653-1716.

I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.