John Knox/knox and Queen Mary 1561-1564

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    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
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    “I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
    Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
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    Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
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