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    They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.
    Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)

    Both th’ old discoveries, and the new-found seas,
    The stock and surplus, cause and historie:
    All these stand open, or I have the keyes:
    Yet I love thee.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)