John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2218 William Drummond 1585-1649 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2218 |
| AUTHOR: | William Drummond (1585–1649) |
| QUOTATION: | God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. 1 I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Posthumous Poems. |
| Note 1. See Burton, Quotation 80. [back] |