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The Gallery of Portraits, with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7)

Note 2 — BUCHANAN

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See his epigram. “In Johannem solo cognomento Majorem ut ipse in fionte libri scripsit.”

Cum scateat nugis solo cognomine Major,

Nec sit in immenso patina sana libro;

Non minem titulis quod se veracibus ornet;

Nec semper mendax fingere Creta solet.

The book was “ane most fulish tractate on ane most emptie subject.”

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