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Whiles Hope held up my head: Such pithy reasons and replies On every side they thew, That I who was not very wise Thought all their tales were true; So many and bony Old problems they propound, Both quickly and likely, I marvell’d meikle on't, XL. With Courage ye were quite content, Ye never sought our small consent, Nor of us stood in awe: Their logic lossons ye believ’d; Determin’d to be deceiv’d, Allegiance past for law; For all the proverbs we perus’d. Ye thought them scanty skill’d; Our reasons had been better rus'd, Had ye been as well will’d To our side as your side, So truly I may term it. We see now in you now, Affection does affirm it. XLI. Experience then smirking smil’d We are no babes to be beguil’d, Quoth he, and shook his head. For authors who appeal to us. They would not go about the buss, To foster deadly feid; For we are equal to ye all, No person we respect. We have been so, are yet, and shall Be found so in effect. If we were as ye were, We had come unrequir’d, But we now, ye see now, Do nothing undesir’d.
