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Chapter 27 THE SCOTS APOSTASIE.

From Poems and Satires, posthumously published in 1662.

Is't come to this? What shall the cheeks of fame

Stretch'd with the breath of learned Loudon's name,

Be flogg'd again? And that great piece of sense,

As rich in loyalty and eloquence,

Brought to the test be found a trick of state,

Like chemist's tinctures, proved adulterate;

            
            

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