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10 her." The man keeping fast her hand he said. You will not take my advice, but it will tend to thy disgrace" After marriage, when praying, he said, "Good Lord, many a plough have been yoaked on the back of the church in Scotland; Pagans yoaked theirs, Antichrist yoaked his, and Prelacy hers, and now the plagued Erastian indulged they have yoaked theirs, and it ill becomes them; good Lord cut their sheets that the swingle trees may fall to the ground. Ensign John Kirkland was witness to this sermon and marriage: he was my dear acquaintance, who told me several times of this, and more of that sermon.

9. About the same time, he was marrying two pair of folks, he said to the one, "Stand by, I will not marry you this day." The bridegroom was anxious to know the reason, after enquiring privately, he said, You will thank me for this afterwards, and think yourself well quat of her for she is with child to another wife's husband: which was the matter of fact, as time afterwards discovered.

10. Shortly after that sad stroke at Bothwell, he went to Ireland but did not stay long at that time; in his travels through Galloway, he came to a house, and looking in the gentleman's face, he said, "They call you an honest man, but if you be so, you look not like it, you will not long keep