> Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be free > > > > > --One of the most quoted excerpts from Scottish poetry is derived from > Canto VI, XVII: Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise > to deceive! Felicia Hemans used two lines from Marmion as an epigraph > for her poem of 1827, The Homes of England. > >