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“Stories to read are delitabill (delightful)
Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction)
Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful)
- And they were said in good manner -
Have double pleasure in hearing.
The first pleasance is the carping (reading aloud)
And the tothir the suthfastness
That shows the thing richt as it was;”
John Barbour
“The instant is not in time -- time is in the instant.”
John Barbour
“If time is a line, it is a special one.”
John Barbour
“He that ay has livit fre
May nocht knaw weil the propirte
The anger, na the wrechit dome
That is couplit to foul thraldome.
Bot gif he had assayit it,
Then all par coeur he sould it wit,
And sould think freedome mair to prys
Than all the gold in warld that is.”
John Barbour, The Bruce

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The Bruce: or The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 2 The Bruce
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