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Douglas quotes

  • It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.

    -Ballads
    'The Battle of Otterbourne', opening lines.

  • And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Marmion, canto 6, stanza14.

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