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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]