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“God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles.”
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- Source:
- Posthumous Poems.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 284eadffcd7ebea5a6594871e0d70444f573ee24e628bdcda475ad86c9d442ee
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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