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David Lyndsay

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Quhen the Sonne is at the hycht,
Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht,
The schaddow of that hydduous strength
Sax myle and more it is of lenth.
Thus maye ye Juge, in to your thocht,
Gyfe Babilone be heych, or nocht.
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Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, line 1752

 
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