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1* THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Fart which ori-i.mlly called tl.em fortl. had pis.ed away, wl.ile tl.o more homely translations of
»'• • a number of the same hymns into En-lisli by good old Coverdale appear to have h id
comparatively a very limited circulation and influence among the En'dish i)eor,le "i This
w but one of .several such tributes paid by Professor Mitchell to the work of the
Wedderburns. With it we may place the far earlier eulogy of John Johnston to which I
have already referred. He has left us two Latin poems, which are as follows : —
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Johannes Weuderdvrnvs.
Pulxua in eriliam, an. l:iiG.
I'xulin Anr/lia moiUur IZSG.
Nou iiicriti e.st ncwtri, meritas tibi dicere ic I'acis atque caiiis .sacra ; sic atria omnia, nil ut
Sanctius ft nusnuaiii purior u\h tides.
Hinc milium ma:,'is invisuin caput hostibus : hinc et
Nemo uni(iiLim meruit cluirior esse bonis.
Grandius hoc meritum, nil te meruisse fateris,
Humanis meritis uec superesse locum.
II.
Db Johanxe, Jacodo, Er Robekto AVedderbvrno, Fratribus.
Divisum imperiuni, per tres, tria Xumina, Fratres,
Infera qurp(|ue vides, rpia'que superna, cauunt.
Vos miror, potius tres vero nomine fratres,
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Vosque supra veneror, Numiiia vana, Decs ;
Concordes aninias, clarissiraa lumina gentis,
Tres paribus studiis, tres pietate pares.
Felices qui vos tales genuere parentes,
Quseque orbi tellus pignora rara dedit.
Progenitos C'.)et that frei|ucnte-l
Edinburgh, and brought hame I'salme-books and Ballates. namely, of Robert Semple's making, wlierci:i
I took pleasure and learned some thing baith of the estate of the Couutrie, and of the UK-a.-,ours ami
cullors of Soottes ryme. He shew me first Wtildcrbum'a Soni/s whereof I learned diverse p