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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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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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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1688
"The meager Monster doth neither harm nor good, / But like the wain, or wax, or ebb, or flood, / She shuns as what her age doth most detaste, / Where Heaven-bred Honour in the noble Mind, / From out the Cavern of the Breast proceeds"
preview | full record— Scot, Walter (b. 1613, d. in or after 1688)
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)