thick as thieves
for the devil they weave
a mass deception
that they all need
to hide their plot to murder
and let the nation bleed
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive” – Sir Walter Scott
One of the most quoted excerpts from Scottish poetry[12] is derived from Canto VI, stanza XVII (although it is often erroneously attributed to Shakespeare):[13][7]
stanza XVII
is this the lightning strike
something big
how is all this unsealed
at once
and processed
how long