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A Dedication (第2/3页)
in need, the gentleman in word and deed, it's no thro' terror of damnation; it's just a al ination. morality, thou deadly bane, thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! vain is his hope, whase stay an' trust is in moral mercy, truth, and justice! no—stretch a point to catch a plack: abuse a brother to his back; steal through the winnock frae a whore, but point the rake that taks the door; be to the poor like ony whunstane, and haud their o the grunstane; ply ev'ry art o' legal thieving; no matter—stick to sound believing. learn three-mile pray'rs, an' half-mile graces, wi' weel-spread looves, an' lang, wry faces; grunt up a solemhen'd groan, and damn a' parties but your own; i'll warrant they ye're nae deceiver, a steady, sturdy, staunch believer. o ye wha leave the springs o' calvin, fumlie dubs of your ain delvin! ye sons of heresy and error, ye'll some day squeel in quaking terror, when vengeance draws the sword in wrath. and in the fire throws the sheath; when ruin, with his sweeping besom, just frets till heav'n ission gies him; while o'er the harp pale misery moans, and strikes the ever-deep'ning tones, still louder shrieks, and heavier groans! your pardon, sir, for this digression: i maist fat my dedication; but when divinity es 'e, my readers still are sure to lose me. so, sir, you see 'twas nae daft vapour; but i maturely thought it proper, when a' my works i did review, to dedicate them, sir, to you: because (ye need na tak it ill), i thought them something like yoursel'. then patrohem wi' your favor, and your petitioner shall ever— i had