Old World Scotland Glimpses of Its Modes And Manners
Old World Scotland Glimpses of Its Modes And Manners
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" But this is how he pictures his native capital : — " Tailors, soutters, and craftis vile The fairest of your streets does file, And merchants at the stinkand style, Are hampered in ane honey came ; Think ye not shame That ye have neither wit nor will To win yourself a better name, " 170 OLD-WORLD SCOTLAND.
And even if his rebukes did for a moment pierce the hides of municipal self-com- placency and sloth, it is probable that with the other achievements of his robust and admirable muse they pa...ssed into oblivion at the Reformation, and at any rate they failed to produce any lasting salutary effect. To such a hideous pass were matters presently come that in March, 1619, the Scottish Privy Council found it necessary to represent to the magistrates that "the city is now become so filthy and unclean, the streets, the vennels, the wynds, and the closes thereof so overlaid and covered with middings and with the filth of man and beast, as that the noble councillors, servants, and others of his Majesty's sub- jects who are lodged in the burgh cannot have clean or clear passage and entry to their lodgings " ; and they further give them candidly to know that "this shame- ful and beastly filthiness is most detestable and odious in the sight of strangers, who, beholding the same, are constrained with SQUALOE.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" But this is how he pictures his native capital : — " Tailors, soutters, and craftis vile The fairest of your streets does file, And merchants at the stinkand style, Are hampered in ane honey came ; Think ye not shame That ye have neither wit nor will To win yourself a better name, " 170 OLD-WORLD SCOTLAND.
And even if his rebukes did for a moment pierce the hides of municipal self-com- placency and sloth, it is probable that with the other achievements of his robust and admirable muse they pa...ssed into oblivion at the Reformation, and at any rate they failed to produce any lasting salutary effect. To such a hideous pass were matters presently come that in March, 1619, the Scottish Privy Council found it necessary to represent to the magistrates that "the city is now become so filthy and unclean, the streets, the vennels, the wynds, and the closes thereof so overlaid and covered with middings and with the filth of man and beast, as that the noble councillors, servants, and others of his Majesty's sub- jects who are lodged in the burgh cannot have clean or clear passage and entry to their lodgings " ; and they further give them candidly to know that "this shame- ful and beastly filthiness is most detestable and odious in the sight of strangers, who, beholding the same, are constrained with SQUALOE.
What to read after Old World Scotland Glimpses of Its Modes And Manners?
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