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world with pleafure fettle his accounts with
Heaven, and pray unwearied for their fuc-
cefs and profpenty. It was even with diffi¬
culty, that the pious tears of his daughter,
enforced with the perfuafive eloquence of
the amiable Bertha, could prevail with him
to poftpone his felf-feclufion, that he might
by his company mitigate a little of that tire-
fomenefs which they were willingly to fuffer
during the abfence of their Lords. To
their folicitations, however, at length he
yielded ; and every thing being now as
much lettled at the houle of Edmund, as,
under fuch interefting circumftances, could
poffibly be, a very affedting tarewcll fepa-
rated the different parties;
In a few days our patriots arrived at
Lancajler, and with their fquadron joined
the main body. Never was there a more
cordial meeting than now felicitated the
hopeful Chieftans : Malcolm, with joy un¬
utterable, welcomed his venerable friends,
the Thanes of Argyle and Giamis-, and
Macduff, unable to confine his tranfport,
interrupted even the greetings of his King:
‘ Thrice welcome (cried he) my noble fellow
fufferers! Let me congratulate you and my-
felf on the eminent profpedl now prei'ented
to us of chaftifing a long exerted tyranny
and oppreffion over a groaning country!
What unexampled excitements have we to
world with pleafure fettle his accounts with
Heaven, and pray unwearied for their fuc-
cefs and profpenty. It was even with diffi¬
culty, that the pious tears of his daughter,
enforced with the perfuafive eloquence of
the amiable Bertha, could prevail with him
to poftpone his felf-feclufion, that he might
by his company mitigate a little of that tire-
fomenefs which they were willingly to fuffer
during the abfence of their Lords. To
their folicitations, however, at length he
yielded ; and every thing being now as
much lettled at the houle of Edmund, as,
under fuch interefting circumftances, could
poffibly be, a very affedting tarewcll fepa-
rated the different parties;
In a few days our patriots arrived at
Lancajler, and with their fquadron joined
the main body. Never was there a more
cordial meeting than now felicitated the
hopeful Chieftans : Malcolm, with joy un¬
utterable, welcomed his venerable friends,
the Thanes of Argyle and Giamis-, and
Macduff, unable to confine his tranfport,
interrupted even the greetings of his King:
‘ Thrice welcome (cried he) my noble fellow
fufferers! Let me congratulate you and my-
felf on the eminent profpedl now prei'ented
to us of chaftifing a long exerted tyranny
and oppreffion over a groaning country!
What unexampled excitements have we to
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| Description | Or, memoirs, intrigues, and atchievements, of personages, who have been chosen by the most celebrated poets, as the fittest characters for theatrical representations. ... Vol. I. Containing the life, ... of Macbeth. By a gentleman, no professed author, but a lover of history, and of the theatre. |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.1.81.182 |
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| Description | Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish. |
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