The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

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ment to them, without any other thanks, having brought
upon us considerable losses, and among others, that of
our all in Cromwell's time; and left in that condition
without the least relief except what we found in our
own virtue. My father was thetonly man of the Scots
nation who had courage enough to protest in Parliament against King William's title to the throne, which
was lost, God knows how: and this at a time when the
losses in the cause of the royall familie, and their usual
gratitude, had scarce left him bread to maintain a numerous familie of eleven children, who had soon after
sprung up on him, in spite of all which, he had honourably persisted in his principle. I say, these things
considered, and after being treated as I was, and in
that unluckie state, when objects appear to men in
their true light, as at the hour of death, could I be
blamed for making some bitter reflections to myself,
and laughing at the extravagance and unaccountable
humour of men, and the singularitie of my own case,
(an exile for the cause of the Stuart family,) when I
ought to have known, that the greatest crime I, or my
family, could have committed, was persevering, to my
own destruction, in serving the royal family faithfully,
though obstinately, after so great a share of depression,
and after they had been pleased to doom me and my
familie to starve.-MS. Memoirs of John, Master of
St. Clair
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