Scotland/Scots > Life of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie, and Guardian of Scotland

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biographer of Wallace; they afford a very favoura¬
ble specimen of the poetical talents of the author:
“ Envious Death, who ruifas all,
Hath wrought the sad lamented fal
Thou couldst not have insulted so
Over a brave, betrayed, dead foe,
Edward ; nor seen those limbs expos'd
To public shame—fit to be clos’d
As relicks in an holy shrine:
His end crowns him with glorious bays,
And stains the brightest of thy praise/*
THE END.
MALCOLM, PRINTER, GLASGOW.