Brewer's: Sweet Singers

A puritanical sect in the reign of Charles II., etc., common in Edinburgh. They burnt all storybooks, ballads, romances, etc., denounced all unchaste words and actions, and even the printed Bible.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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