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Thread #138368 Message #3169721
Posted By: Allan Conn
13-Jun-11 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Subject: RE: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
"McGrath: "Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!"?"
I always took the term 'parcel of rogues' as actually referring to the Scots who were bought and sold - rather than the English themselves.