Religion
Not Serve Two Masters
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Religion
NOT serve two masters? -- Here's a youth will try it,
Would fain serve God, yet give the devil his due ;
Says grace before he doth a deed of villany,
And returns his thanks devoutly when 'tis acted.
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Codex Note
From Kenilworth (1821)
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Scott, Walter. “Not Serve Two Masters.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/216/.
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Scott, Walter. “Not Serve Two Masters.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/216/.
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