- reckless extravagance. The Scots have no patience with this sort of thing. An entry from 1581 in the Lennox Muniments sums up our opinion of such wickedness: Dame Elizabeth Dowglas . . . is idiot and prodigall having nowther tyme nor end of expenssis nor discretioun of hirself to rewll and governe hir landis . . . and gudis.
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