. Anecdotes of distinguished persons, chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : illustrated by engravings. s i „ .men A.^^men A^men A*.. =3 A.^^men A.^men A- men • men A men A„ men A Adagio XX men A . _ _ men . _ „, „ men A « *• men Adagio • men 1 men I MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. l6$ Before thy hallowed crofs (he proftrate lies,O hear her prayers, commiferate her fighs !Extend thy arms of mercy and of love,And bear her to thy peaceful realms above. Buchanan dedicated to Queen Mary his beau-tiful tranflation of the Pfalms into Latin verfe*The concluding lines of his Tranflation are ; Non

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. Anecdotes of distinguished persons, chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : illustrated by engravings. s i „ .men A.^^men A^men A*.. =3 A.^^men A.^men A- men • men A men A„ men A Adagio XX men A . _ _ men . _ „, „ men A « *• men Adagio • men 1 men I MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. l6$ Before thy hallowed crofs (he proftrate lies,O hear her prayers, commiferate her fighs !Extend thy arms of mercy and of love,And bear her to thy peaceful realms above. Buchanan dedicated to Queen Mary his beau-tiful tranflation of the Pfalms into Latin verfe*The concluding lines of his Tranflation are ; Non tamen aufus eram mate natum exponere fcetum9 Ne fnihi dijpliceant, qua placuere tibi>Jslam quod ab ingenio Domini fperare nequibunt9 JOebtbunt genio forfitan ilia tuo. They were thus altered by Bifhop Atterburythe night before he died, and were fent by hjrnto the late Lord Marfhal Keith: At ft cult a parum, fi fint incondita, Noflrt Scilicet ingenii e/l} non ea culpa foluPojfe etiatn hie nofci qua funt pulcherrima fpondet9 Ex vultu et genio Scctica terra tuo. If thefe rude barbrous lines their author fhame, .His mufe and no

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