Maries

—“Yestreen the queen had four Maries, / The night she’ll hae but three; / There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beatoun, / And Marie Carmichael, and me.”

I here join the other Mary with Mary Magdalene; for tho’ I think it is pretty plain from St John, that ſhe alone brought this Account; yet it is remarkable that in her Narration ſhe ſays, We know not where they have laid him, ſpeaking, as it were, in the Name of the other Mary and her own; and doubtleſs ſhe did not omit to acquaint them that the other Mary came with her to the Sepulchre; ſo that this Report, tho’ made by Mary Magdalene alone, may fairly be taken for the joint Report of the two Maries, and was probably ſtiled ſo by Peter and John, and therefore repreſented as ſuch by St. Luke in the Paſſage before us.