Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 2 of 4: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James Vi; To the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne Buchanan published a train of confessions - all spu rions the creation of a genius that seems to have delighted itself 111 the boldness of 1ts own falsehoods, and to have rioted. In the luxury of 1ts own forgeriesf-his spirit could not long confine itself within the bounds of harmlessness. The ser pent may appear for a time playing in wanton curls upon the ground. It will soon, however, rise upon its spires, and shew its enveno'med fangs. And Buchanan, returned to his natural exercise of fictitious slander. - But this Leviathan of slander was not satisfied.with taking such gentle pastime in forgery. He must raise a tempest for his recreation.-his malignity acted with all the force-ofa pestilential blast upon his disere tion. The daring calumniator sunk into an impassioned idiot before it. And he stands on the pillar of infamy at present, for his Detection, his sonnets, and his depositions, the second of all human forgets, and the first of all human slan derers but bafiled in his forgeries, and defeated in his slan ders by his very rage for both. Whitaker, iii. 192-34. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.