holy willie's prayer
“ahe godly in a pet to pray.”—pope.
argument.
holy willie was a rather oldish bachelor elder, in the parish of maue, and mud justly famed for that polemical chattering, whids in tippling orthodoxy, and for that spiritualized bawdry which refio liquorish devotion. in a sessional process with a gentleman in maue—a mr. gavin hamilton—holy willie and his priest, father auld, after full hearing in the presbytery of ayr, came off but sed best; owing partly to the oratorical powers of mr. robert aiken, mr. hamilton's sel; but chiefly to mr. hamilton's being one of the most irreproachable and truly r
Holy Willies Prayer(1/8)