Arts & Sciences
Ne Sit Ancillae
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Arts & Sciences
Take thou no scorn
Of fiction born,
Fair fiction's muse to woo ;
Old Homer's theme
Was but a dream,
Himself a fiction too.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “Ne Sit Ancillae.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/185/.
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Scott, Walter. “Ne Sit Ancillae.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/185/.
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