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` ` I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth. ''

The Antiquary 1845

Countess o 'Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi' torch-light; and a 'the popist servants, and Ringan Aikwood, that's a papist too, are to be there, and it will be the grandest show ever was seen.' '

The Antiquary 1845

"I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

-- And yell hae heard o 'the Countess o' Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi 'torch-light; and a' the popist servants, and

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

-- And yell hae heard o 'the Countess o' Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi 'torch-light; and a' the popist servants, and

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth."

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

It's a textbook example of that popist precept/procedure, whereby "'importance' and 'relevance' is a scam and a trap" and if you can only "stop thinking about things in those terms, all of music and art becomes far more enjoyable" (Matthew Perpetua).

blissblog 2009

“I ken’d you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth.”

The Antiquary 1584

And yell hae heard o’ the Countess o’ Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she’s to be buried at St. Ruth’s as this night fa’s, wi’ torch-light; and a’ the popist servants, and Ringan

The Antiquary 1584