Religion
The Hottest Horse Will Oft Be Cool
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Religion
THE hottest horse will oft be cool,
The dullest will show fire ;
The friar will often play the fool,
The fool will play the friar.
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Codex Note
From Ivanhoe (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “The Hottest Horse Will Oft Be Cool.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/181/.
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Scott, Walter. “The Hottest Horse Will Oft Be Cool.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/181/.
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