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"Animals"
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"Male"
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Work title:
"Satchels's Post'ral: Humbly presented to his Noble and Worthy Friends of the Names of Scot and Elliot. [from A True History Of several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, In the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers. By Capt. Walter Scot, An old Souldier, and no Scholler, And one that can Write nane, But just the Letters of his Name]"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1688
"From out the Cavern of the Breast proceeds [...] Hell-born Envy shews her hellish kind, / And Vulture-like upon the Actions feed."
preview | full record— Scot, Walter (b. 1613, d. in or after 1688)