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Seven oulverins so called, cast by one Borthwick.
“And these were Borthwick’s Sisters Seven,
And culverins which France had given;
Ill-omened giftʹ The guns remain
The conqueror’s spoil on Flodden plain.”
Sir Walter Scott: Marmion iv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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