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Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century

Note 744 — KING JAMES THE FIFTH.

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History of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 361, and note z. The historian shows that the attempt to poison the king was by no means the first capital offence of which Lady Glammis had been convicted, though her youth and beauty were used by the reforming party to excite popular feeling against James.

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