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THE GLEN COLLECTION
OF SCOTTISH MUSIC
Presented by Lady Dorothea RugglesBrise to the National Library of Scotland,
memory of her brother, Major Lord
George Stewart Murray, Black Watch,
in
killed
in
action
28th
in
France
January
in
1914.
1927.
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COLLECTION
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Scots Poems,
Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Vol.
§uha dar
II.
prefume thir Poetis
Quhais Sentence
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•
New Yek
MART, when
To Queen
firft
Gift
Jfoe
came
Hamty\^%^
.
E l c M MjillutatLady,, and our Quene*
Welcum our Lyone with the JelouredcLycey
Wekum
our Thiftie with
'the L&~
ram Grenej
Welcum
our Rubent Rofe upon the Rycc,
Welcum our
Welcum our
Welcum
God
fern,
Beil
of
and joyfull Gentrycej
Albion
to beir>.
our plefand Princes maift of Pryce,
give you Grace agains this gudc
%%
new
Zeir.
II.
Thu
A New
4
Teir Gift
II.
This Gude New
Zeir
be of Peace, Tranquility and Reft;
Sail
This Zeir
fae lang
Seafon has bene
This Zeir firm Faith
all
To
fall freily
fair fuprcft >
be confejr,
eronious Queftions put arreir
labour, that this Lyfe;
God
,
Richt and Reafon rule the Rod,
fal
Quhilk
And
we hope with Grace of Gotf,
amang
zou Grace agains
give
this
us left,
gude new
Zeir.
III.
Hei&fore
And
Begin
addrefs thee duely to decore,
at
God
And of his
Caufe
So
fall
Regne with
rule thy
to gar fet forck his Glore,
Golpel get Experience,
Kirk be had in Reverence,
his true
thy
hie Magnificence
Name
and Fame fpreid
far
and
neir,
Now this thy Det to do with Diligence,
God give thee Grace agains this gude new
Zeir.
IV.
Found' on
On
the
Wifdom,
firft
Juftice,
Aplaud to prudent
Of Yerteous
four Vertues cardinal^
folk,
*
Force and Temperance,
and
principal!
Lyfe, thy Worfhip to advance:
,
Wey
MART.
ûeen
to
Wcy
5
Strengthen thy State, with Stedfaftnefs to
To
temper
God
Tyme
this
V.
gude new £eir P
>
.
U
•
thy Confate by Council of the Sage,
And
cleave to Chryfl has kept thee weil in
Attingent
n6w
to twenty Zeirs
Prefervand thee from
Wald thou be
on
Still
fteir,
with true Continuance,
Grace agains
give* thee
Cast
•
Juftice equal without Difcrepanee,
the
Cure,
of Age,
Mifaventure.
#11
ferved and thy Countrie fure
A
Common-weil
haif
Eye and
Eir,
Prefs ay to be Protectrix of the Pure,
Sae
God
fall
gyde thy Grace
this
gude new
Zeir*
VI.
Gar
.
ftanche allStryfe,and ftable thy Eftates3
In Conftance, Concord, Charity and Luve:
Be
bifly
now
to banifh
all
Debates,
That twixt Kirk-men and tempral
The
And
To
To
pulling
let
Men
dois
muve,
doun of Policy repruve,
perverfed Prelates live perquier,
do the
beft befeikand
God
abuve,
give thee Grace agains this gude
$
5
new
Zeir.
VII,
At
A New
$
Teh' Gift
til.
7
At
Crofs
cry be tfpin froelkmatioii,
gin*
Undfrffrit Pains, that nowther he nor fcho,
Of
haly
Writ have ohy Difputation,
r
Bat letterd
Men
6r learned Clerks thertd
For Lyrrfmer Lads and
little
Lanes lo,
Will argue baith With Biftbp, Preift imd Freir
To
God
dantoii this thou has
enouch to do,
give thee Grace agains this
gjiicle
hew
Zeir*'
till,
But
wyte the wickit Paftors
Their
They
vicfoiis -Living,
WaR not
an the WarkLprefcryves;
tuke nae tent their Traik fouldturn
They
mend
till
end.
"Were fae prdud of their Prerogatyves,
For wantones they wald not marrie Wyves,
Nor
zft live chaft,
Now
God give
biitcWp and change
thetf'Gheirj
to' reforrn their iecnerdttsieud Cyês,
thee Grace aîns this gudene"wêir.
They brocht
To
They
To
;
thair Baftards
with the Skrufe they skraip
biande their Elude with Barrons by Ambition,
purcheft pithlefs Pardons frae the Paip,
caufc fond Foils confyde he hes Fruition,
As
<fo
ûeen.
As Gop, to give for
And Sauls to
faif
Tofet ?fyde
God
from
&
MAR. T.
7
Sins a full Remiflfioa,
fuffering
Sorrow
feir
:
of Superftition,
Sort
new
give *hee Grace agains this gude
Zeir.
X.
They
On
It
Benifice
and Pention
Frydayf quha
eit
Flefh
tint that
was
marrietj
fyr-fangt
;
made nae Mifsquhat Maydens they mifcarrier;
On
Falling Days, they
were not brunt or hangu
Licence for Lechry frae their Lord belangt,
To give Indulgence as the Deil did leir,
To mend that Menziehas faemony mangt,
God
They
lute the Leiges pray to Stocks
gude new
Zeir.
XI,
And
and Stanes,
pamcit Papers, wats nocht quhat theyrrtein:
They bad them beck and binge
Offer on Kneis to
kifs^
fyne
to deid
Mens
faif their
Banes^
Kin,
Pilgrims and Palmers paft with them between,
Sanct Blais3
Sand
Boit> blate Bodies
Ene
to bleir j
Now to forbid this grit Abufe hes bene,
God give thee Grace agains this gude new Zeir.
%
4
XII. They
A New
8
Ten
Gift
xir.
THEy
God
$yart
And
deivd
With owklie
with
him with
Abits to
tume andTrantak,
Trifles
their daft
augment
and
daylie Dargeis,
their Rentals,
Mantand,Mort 3 Mumbelings 3 mixt with monyLies.
Sic
San&itude was Sathans Sorceries,
Chryfls
To
Goo
filly
Sheip and fobir Flock to fmeir,
findrie Seels
ceife all
of
Herefieis,
new
Zeir.
XIII.
With
To
Mefs and'Mattins nae ways
juge them juftly
Theygyde
And
not
honeftly
Doubts to
Cunning
r
my
will I mell 3
Ingyne,
that governs weil themfell,
on Lawtie
difcus, for
lays their
Lyne,
Doctors are divyne,
in Clergie to declair
To order
God
ill
palTes
this the Office
them
now
is
cleir:
thyne,
new
Zeir.
XIV.
As
Beis tak
Wax
So dois the
As
W^ps
and Honey of
Faithful
of God's
receive frae aft the
tfie
Floure,
Word
tak Fruir3
fame but four,
Sae Reprobates the Scripture dois rebute.
MAKT.
Queen
to
Words without Warks
To
feis
§
availeth not a Cute,
thy Subje&s fae in Luve and Feir,
That Richt and Reafon in thy Realm may rutc9
;
God
The
Epiftles
gude newZeir,
XV.
now are
and Evangells
Preichra
Bot Sopheftrie or Ceremonys vain 5
Thy
People, maift Part, truely
To
put
But
in
away
Idolatrie
fum Hearts
An Image callit curfd
is
now
are teicht
prophane,
graven
new
again.
Covetice ofGeir,
Now to expell that Idol /lands
God give thee Grace agains this
up
plain,
gude
new Zek,
XVI.
For Sum
are fene at
Sermons fum
fa haly,
Singand Sancl Davids Pfalter on their Buiks^
And
are but BibJifts fairfing
full. their
Belly,
Backbytand Nybours noying them in Nuiks,
Ruggand and
reivand up Kirk Rents lyke Rukes
Lyke very Wafps againft God's
Now fie Chriftians to kifs
0o d give thee Grace agains
3
Word mak Weir;
with Chanters Kuiks
this
gude new Zeir.
XVJLDfiWTO
A New
io
Teir Gift
XVII.
Dew tie
And
The
ana Diets are driven by Dot&fenefs,
Folks are flemit frae fcung Faith Prbfeflbr^
greateft
ay the £reidyat I
gefs,
To plant quherePreifts andParfons WerePoflerTors'
Teinds are uptane by Teftament TranfgrefTors,
Credence
To
is
paft
of Promife thocht they fweir,
punifh Palmers, and reproach QpprefTors,
God
gude new
Zeir.
XVI II.
Puir
Folkarfamift with
They
fail
for Fait that
Lcil Labourers lament
That they
ar hurt
their Faffions
had before
and Tennants trew,
and
hcrriet
North and South
The Heidfmen have Cor mundum
But nevir mynd
To
God
quench
to give the
thir
new,
at fbuth,
Mouth*
in their
Man his
Meir,
quent Calamities fo cowth,
new
Zeir.
XIX.
P r o x e s t a n d s tak the Friers
\
Ready
So Lairds
And
auld Antetewme,
Refavers, but to render nocht,
uplift
Mens Leiving 3 ower thy Rewme,
are richt crabit
quhen they crave them ocht
Be
to Qiieen
MART,
%x
)Bc they unpaid, thy Purfevants arc focht,
To pund
To
God
pure
Commons Corn and
vifly all thir
Cattle keir,
wrangous Warks arc wrocht,
give thee Grace agains this gucle
new
Zeir,
XX.
PAUL
Nor
J3ut
bidshane deal with Thing Tddlatheit,
qurrair
HypOcrafie
'hes -bene cdmittit
Kirfcmbis curled Subftaricc aft
fei'ms fweir,
TiH Bandsmen that with feud Bird Lyme are l'yttit*
Gif thou perfave Turn Senzior
Solift
them fafdy
Hurt not
their
it
has fmittit,
riot to perfevcir j
Honour, tho thy Hienefs wit
But graciouily forgive them
-
this
new
it,
Zeir.
XXI,
F o r g i v N e s grant with Gladnefs and Gude-will,
Gratis to all into
Syne
Sour Parliament,
iiabltfn-Statutes, ftedfaft to ftand
ftill,
That Barone, Clerk and Barges be content,
Thy
Nobles, Earls, -and Lords in confequent,!
Trek tender to
"obtain their Hearts inteir,
That they may
Umo
ferve,
thy Grace this
and be obedient
new and mony
a Zeir.
XXII. Sen
A New
xs
Teh
Qift^
XXII.
Sen
thou
fae
fits
in Seat fuperlative,
Caufe every State to their Vocation go,
Scolaftick
And
Men
the Scriptures to difcryve,
Majeftrates to ufe their
Merchands
to trade
and
Sword
trafick to
alfo,
and
fro,
Mechanicks Work, Husbands to faw and Sheir,
So
fall
be Wealth and Weilfare without
Be Grace of God
agains this gude
new
Woe,
Zeir.
XXIII.
Let
With
Frak
courtlie
for dauncing
them
feirce Gallands the Feild
feicht in
addrefs,
Ladys coupled in Conforfs,
Unarmed Knychts
To
in Readynefs,
coftly cleathing to decore thy Corfs,
Zung Gentlemen
With
now
thy Realme be
all
at Lifts
Games
to enforfs^
with Scheild and Speir,
Barrows baith on Fute and Horfs,
$gane thy Grace
get a
Gude- man
this Zejr.
XXIV. Tflxs
MART.
Queen
to
i%
XXIV.
I'his Zeir
be Embaflies heir belyve,
fall
For Marriage, from great Princes,Dukes and Kings,
This Zeir within thy Region
Rowts of the Ranker? that
fall
aryfe
m Europe rings;
This Zeir baith Blythnefs and Aboundance brings.
Navies of Schips outhrow the Sea to
With
Riches, Rayments and
Agane thy Grace
get a
all
Gude-man
fneir,
Royal Things,
this Zeir,
XXV.
Gif Saws befuthe
Quhat Bairn
The
to
fchaw thy
fould bruke
all
Celfitude,
Britain be the Sie,
Prophecie exprefly dois conclude,
The French Wy fe of the B r u c e i Blude
s,
Thou
art
the Lyne
And was King
frae
him
the"
fould bcj
Nynth Degree,
Francis Partie maik and Peir.
Sae by Defcent the fame fould fpring of thee,
By Grace of God agane
this
gude new
Yeir.
XXVI.
Now
Gif Saws be futhe. By this Verfe it appears that the Prophecy of J .AMES the VI. fucceeding to the Crown o£
England, and being the firft King of Great Britain, was not
as fome would alledge, made after his Acceflion; this
Poem
being wiote
in,
ij6z,fome Years before
his Birch,
d mw
*4
Teir Gift,
XXVL
KoW
td Conclude,
on Chryft
And cherifhthem
thy comfort^
call
that thou has~un4er- Charge^
Supone maift fure he faH fend thee fupport,
And
len the luftyLibero* at large,
Believe that
To mak
And
Lord can Harbary
fo thy Bairge,
braid Britain blyth as Bird
on
Brier,
thee extol with his triumphartdi Targe,
Victoriously again this gude
L
9
newZeir.
Envoy..
XXVII.
Prudent, maift
gent, tak tent, andprerit theAVords,
Intill this Bill,
with Will, them
0vMk ar, not skar,
But
feal,
Sen
lo,
hot
feal,
to bar*
may
thou (how,
Receive and
faif,
and
on
ftill>
to face,
far, ftae Baurds^'
heal, avacl thy Grace,
now do,
this to,
haif,
ingrave
it
has Place,
heir,
This now, for Prow, that you, fweit Do w,may brace
Lang Space, with Grace,
folace,
and Peace
this Zeir.
LECTORI.
XXVIII.
F r e, s c h,
fulgent, Murift, fragrant
Lantern to Luve, of Ladys
j
Flower fqrinpf%
Lamp and Lot,
Cherry, maift chaft, chcif Carbuncle and Choife,
5 writ fmylin^ Sovraign mining bot a Spot,
.
Blcft
his Heart,
to
Bleit, beautyful^
Xo
this
benygn 3 and
beft.
t$
begot,
Indyte pleafe to inclyne thine Eir,
Sent be thy fimple Servant Sanders Scot,
Greiting great
God
to grant thy Grace gudeZeir.
Quod Alex*. Scot*
HEAR
To his
ft
I.
jy Eturn Hamewart my
And byde quhair
-
Thou
Heart again,
thou was wont to bej
art a Fulc to fufFer Pain,
For Luve of her that Iuves not dices
My Heart
let
be
fie
Fantefie,
Luve nane but quhair thou has gud Caufc,
And
let hir feik
For Feynd a
a Heart for thee,-
Crum of thee
fcho faws*
II.
To
The Chronology of the Poems contained in this and
the former Volume, is not to be expe&ed, fome of older
Date having come to Hand after others, fome hundred
Years later have been printed, befides moft of them having no Dates j the endeavouring to place them according
to the Order of Time they were wrote in, and Incidents
to which they related, was judged as ufelcfs as it would
have proven
difficult.
%o
xtt
Heart.
his
II.
To
quhat Effect fould thou be
But thank fen thou has thy
My
Heart be nocht
thrall,
free
Will;
fae beftial,
But knaw quha dois thee Gude or
At Hame with me then
And
fe
And
tarry
111
ftill,
then quha playis beft thair Pawis^
let
the Fillo'ek fling hir
fillj
For Feynd a Crum of thee fcho faws,
III.
Thocht
Scho
is
For quhy
fcho be
theKynd with
thair
That feimeth
My
fair I will
is
not fenzie,
utheris
mae;
a Fellon Menzie,
gude.,
and are hot
fae:
Heart tak nowther Pain nor
Wae
'For Meg, for Marjory or Mazvis,
But be thou glad, and
let
her gae,
Fer Feynd a Crum of thee fcho faws,
IV.
Remember how
Wyld
for a Sicht
Remember how
that
Medea
of Jafon zeid.
that Crejfida,
Left Troilus for Diomedgo
To
Heart.
his
Remember Helen3 as we
Broeht Trvy from
Then
Blils
i*f
rcid, v
unto bare
Wa ws;
hergae quhair fcho may
let
For Feynd a
Crum
fpeid,
of thee fcho faws.
Y.
Because
At
But
I find fcho tuke in
hir departing
all
beguyld,
gt>
ill,
mak nae Care;
quhair fcho will,
A fchrew the Heart that mane makes
My Heart Se mirry late and air.
This
is
And
the
final
End and Clawfe,
her feid and
let
main
fullzie fair,,
For Feynd a
Crum of
Neir. dunt
'again within
thee fcho fawso
VI.
Neir
Nor
let
gie a
Schois
hir Slichts thy
Sob
faireft
Scho geeks
Quhen
Now
my
Breifl,
Courage
fpili 3
$>eit fcho fneift,
payd that gets hir
as gif I
meind her
VftlL*
111,
fcho glaiks pauchty in hir Braws/
let hif fnirt,
Fir Feynd
a
Crum
and fyk
hir
fill,
of thee fcho faws.
Qw&
AiE% r
.
cor.
i8
^
^ WOVXNG.
£r^>
i.
-gr
N
I
fecrei Place this hinder Nicht,
heard a Bairn fay
till
a Bricht,
My Hinny, my Howp, my Heart, my
I haif been lang zour Luivar
And
can of zou get Comfort nane,
How lang
Ze
Heila
leil,
brek
Will
ze with Danger deil?
my Hears, my bony
ane.
II.
His bony
But
all
Baird was
with Kail
Comich he was,
He
clapit faft,
As with
it
kemd and
fulifh
he
kift,
and goukit,
he chukit,
the Glaicks he
my
Heart,
my
—
were oergane,
Zit be his Feirs he wald have
Ze brek
cropir,
was bedropit,
bony
ane.
in.Qjroi>
A
Brajh of IVouing,
19
ill.
Quod
he,
my
Heart, fweic as the Hinny^
Sen that I born was of my Minny,
.
I nevir wouit an uther but zou,
My Wame
That
is
of your Luve faefou,
as a Ghaift I
I trymil fae ze
Ze
glowr and grane,
wadna trow,
my Heart, my bony
brek
ane.
IV.
Teh ei,
Be
ftill
new
And
all
Nae
fcho, and
my Cowfyne,
My
My
quod
fpaind
gaea
Gaw£
my
Cawf,
and
Howphyn
the Blythnefs of
frae the Souk*
my
Bouk,
fvvanky fweet, faif thee alanes
Leid haif I luivd
Fow
Ids
me on
all this
Owk,
that grades gane.
V.
Quod he, my Claver, my Curledody,
My Hinnyfopps, my fweit Poflbdyj
Be not owre bowftrous
Be warm
hertit,
not
to your Billy,
illwilly
%
z
Zour
A
2®.
Zour Hals
Gars
rife
as
Brajb of
whyt
on Loft
my
as
IVouirlg.
Quhalis Bane,
Quiliy-lillie,'
Ze brck my Heart, my bony
i
ane.
'
j
VI.
Qjjod
fcho,
my
Clip,
With Mithers Milk
My
My
Pleins
Tak Comfort,
Fou
Lara,
your Gam,
Hudrom, my Hurle Bawfy,
Belly
Honneyguks,
Zour
my unfpaynd
zit in
leis
my
Siller
Tawfy,
wad
perfs a Heart
my
great headed
me on
zour
of Staae
j
Gawfy,
graclefs gane.
VII.
Qu o d he, my Kid, my Capercalzeahe,
My bony Bab with the ruch Brilzeane,
My tender Girdil, my Wally Gowdy,
My Tirly Mirly, my Sowdy Mowdy,
Quhen
My
that our
Mouths do meit
Stang dois cork in
in ane,
with your Towdyi
2e brek my Heart, my bony
ane.
VIII.
Quod
A
Brajh ofWpuingy
zt
VIII.
Q_u o d fcho then tak me be the Hand,
Welcom my Golk of Maryland,
My Chirrry and my maiklefs Mynzion,
My Sucker fweit as ony Unzeon,
My Strummil Stirk zit new to fpane3
I
am
applyd to your Opinzion,
Fou
me on
leis
that grades gancp
IX.
He
gaif
till
hir ane Aple-ruby,
Gramerce 3 quod
Syne thay twa
fcho.,
till
Quhilk that they
my kind Cowhubby^
a Play began,
call
the Dirrydan.
Quhile baith thair Fancies met in ane5
O wow!
Ldl
quoth me, quhair will ye Man,
leis
me on
that grades gane.
Quod Clerk,
ft 3
THE
22
THE
GOLTUN TERGE.
i.
-ry
Ich t
as the Stern
Quhen gone
to
of Day began
Bed was
I raifej and by a Rofeir did
Vefper
me
to fchyne,
and Lucyne^
reft 5
Upfprang the goldin Candill maculyne,
With
cleir
depurit
Beims Chriftalyne,
Glading the mirty Fowlis in thair Neft*
,
Or Phebus was in purpure
Up
Kaip reveft;
fprang the Lark, the Hevenis Minftral fyne3
In
May
intill
a
Morrow
mirthfulleft.
II.
M
Full
the finding of this Poem amongft the old anufcripts,
gives a great Pleafure, it being particulary quotted by Sir
David Lindfay in his Prologue to the Complaint of the
Papingo, where he mentions many of the old Poets, la
Commendation of Mr. Dunbar? he
fays,
Or of Dunbar quha Language had
îs may
h fene into
at larger
bh Goldin Terge.
3%e QoUin
Full
Angelyk
Serge,
thir Birdis fang thair
$$
Hours,
Within thair Courtings grene within thair Bours,
Apperellit quhyte
and reid with Blumys fweit3
Enamalit was the Feild with
The
all
Collours,
Perlit propis fchuke in filver Schours,
Quhyle
all
in
Balm did brench and Levis Fieit,
Depairt frae Phebns did Aurora greit,
Teirs I faw hing
on
the Flours,
Quhilk he for Lufe drank
all
up with hisHeit.
Hir
criftal
III.
For
Mirth of May, with Skippis and with Hopps^
The Birds
fang upon the tendir Cropps,
With Curious
The
Wer
Rofles reid,
powderit
With Rayis
The
Nottis as Venus Chapell Clarks;
now
full
fpreiding afF thair
bricht
reid 3
Knopps,
with hevinly Droppsa
lemying
as
ruby Sparks,
Skyis rang with Schouting of the Larks„"
The Purpure Hevin owre
Owrc gilt
skailt in Silver
Slopps
fl
the Treis Branches Leivs and Barks.
%
a
IV. Dow*
0e
24
Goldin. Sirge.
IV,
D o u n throwch the Ryfs an River ran,quhojs Scrims
So
upon the lykand Leims,
luftely
That
ail
the Laik as
Quhilk fchadowit
The Bewis
Throw
On
all
baithit
Lamp
did leim of Licht,
about with twynkland Gleims,
were
in fecound Beims,
the Reflex of Phebus Vifage brichr,
every Sydc theEge raife on hicht:
The Bank was
The
grene, the Sun was
Streimers
full
of Beims,
cleir as Sternis in frofly
Nicht,
y.
The
CrLftal Air the Saphier
The Ruby
Firmament,
Skyes of the reid Orient,
Kelt Berial Gleims on Emerant Bewis grene,
The Rofy Garth
With Furpore,
depaynt and redolent,
Afure, Gold and Gowlis gent,
Arrayit was be
Dame
Flora the Qiiene,
Sae nobilie that Joy was for to fcne,
The Roche
againft the River refplendant^
As low Humiliate the Levis
fchene."
VI.
QtfHAT
VI.
Qjjhat throw themirry
fowls
Quhat throw the Rivers Sound
On
Floras
Weid
iQuhair fune into
I
'
Schip on
fail
With
fwirteil
I lay,
the Orient Sky,
blofome on the Spray,
as
With Maft of Gold,
Qiihilk tendit to the
me by s
dreimand Fantify,
Jaw approche agane
Ane
quhair
I flepit
my
Harmony
faff:
that ran
bricht as the Stern
Land
oFDay,
full luftejy,
Motion throu
a Cryftal Bay,
VII.
And
hard on Burd unto the blumit
Amangs
the
Grene
Rifpies
MdJ^
]
and the Reids,
Aryvit fcho quheirfrae annon thair Lands,
Ane hundreth
Ladeis luftie
intill
Als frelh as Flours that in the
In
Kirtilis
Weids,
May
upfpreids,
grene, withoutcn Kell or Bands,
Thair (hynand Hair hang glireerand on theStrand
In Trefis
cleir
wypit with
With Pawps quhyte, and
golciin Threids,
Middiils fmall as
Wands.
VIII.
Dis-"
%*be Qoldin Terge,
s&6
VIII.
Pis cr y vb
How
all
I
wald but quha culd Weil indyte^
the Flours with
all
the Lillies quhyt,
Depaint was bricht, quhilk to the Hevin did
Nocht Homer thou
for
all
Nor
als fair as
gleit
thou couth wryte,
thy ornat Style the maift perfyte,
zet,
thou Julius, quhais Oratiouns fwcit
In Rcthorick did
Zq\\x aureat
intill
Tungs had
Terms
fieit,
baith bene
all
to lyte.
For to compyle that Paradyce compleit.
IX.
There faw
Aurora
I
Nature, and
frefh,
als
Dame
Venus Qucne^
and Lady Flora fchene,
Juno, Latona, and Proferpna,
Diane the Goddefs of Chcft and
My Lady
Clio, that
Thet'u fe grene
Wods
grene.
Help of Makers bene,
1
and prudent Minerva,
Fair faynt Fortune,
and lemand Luc'ma,
Thir michty Quenis, with Crownis might be
With Beims
brichtj
and biyth
fenejj
as Lucifera.
X. Thau
QoUin
tfhe
27
tferge.
X.
Xhaib. faw
May
I
of mirthfull Moniths Quenc^
Betwix Apryl and June her
Sifters fchene,
Within the Garden walkand up and doun,
Qyhom
of the
§cho was
full tendir
Thair faw
in hir Zeirs
Nature give
I
Hew
ilka
bedenea
refaif Gladnefs
till
that undir
Grcnes
hir a
to behald, andj noble of
Rich
Of
Fowls
Goun,
Renown,
Hevin has bene
Depaynt and braid be gude ProportiourL
XL
Full
luftiely thir
Ladyis
all
in Feir,
Enterit into this Park of maift Plefeir,
Quhair thac
The mirry
Nature
I lay heiiit
Birds
faluft
blisful
with Leivs Rank,
of Cheir;
methocht in
thair
Maneir,
And every Blume on Brench and on the Bank,
Openit and fpred thair balmy Levis donk,
Full
Law
Quhom
inclynand to thair
Quene
full
cleir,
for thair noble nurifing they thank.
XII. Syne
28
Whe Goldin
tferge,
xir.
Syne
to
They
faluft
And
They
Dame
on the famyne Wayt;
and they thank a Thoufand
to fweit' Venus neift, Luvis
Syis,
bony Qitend
fang B^llatis of Iûve, as was the Gyis,
With amorous
As
Flora,
that the)'
Thair
With
Hony
glottis maift lufly to devyis,
had Luve in
thair Heartis grene,
Throtts
openit frae theSpI&L
tjiey
Warbills fweit they perft the HevinlySkyi
Quhyle loud refount the Firmament
fer'ene,
Jkfti,
Ane
uther Court thair faw I fubfequent,
Cupid the King-, with
And
dreidfuil
Thair faw
Awful and
Mars
I
Bow
in
the
God
I crabit
bene,
fherp and fquhahj
armipotent,
ftern, braid, flrong
Thair faw
Hand ay
Arrows grundin
and corpulent.
Saturn auld
anii Hair
x
His Luke was lyke for to
perturb the Air,
Thair was Mercimus, wyfe and
eloquent
Of
Rethorick that fand the Flouris
fae
fair.
XIV. Thai
ifhe doldifi
tfergti
%p
XIV.
Chair was
Thair
God of Gardens
the
And Jam's God of
Entries delectable,
God of Oceans Ntptums
^hair was the
Thair
Priaftesy
was the God of Wildernes Phanusa
was the
God of Winds bauld
With variand
Blafts lyke to
:
EoIhs,
an Lord
unliable,'
Thair was blyth Bachus glader of the Table,
^tThair Pluto
was, that elritch lncuhm,
In Cloke of Grene,his Court was clade in Sable.
XV.
k n d every ane of
An Harp and Lute
And
Ballats fang
Ladys to daunce
thir in
full
grene arrayc,
mirreyly they playr,
with michty Nottes
cleir
full fobirly aflyit,
Endlang the trotting River fo they mayit
Thair Obfervance richt hevinly was to heir
Then
Quhair
All
crap
I
that I
throw the Brenches and drew
was
%
neir,
richt fuddenly afFrayit,
throw a Luke
that I haif coft full delr.
XVI. And
£he Goldin
3§
fferge.
XVI.
And
fchortlic for tofpeik,
was
I
efpyit,
Go me
Then
Quins
fair
fcho bad hir Archers kene
and they nae
areiftj
Ladies fair lute
With Bo wis
by Luves
fall
Tyme
delayiej
thair Mantils grene,
big, in traflit Hairs fchene,
Rjcht fuddenly they had a Feild arrayit;
And
was
zit richt gritly
The Party was
I
fae plefand to
nocht
affrayit
be fene,
i
A
Wondir
lufty Bikar
me
affayit.
,
XVII.
And
firft
Came
Bewty's
of
all
Bow in Hand
ay bent,
Dame richt as fcho wald me
Syne followit
With mony
with
all
fchentj
her Damofells in Feir,
divers awfull Inftrument,
Into the preifs fair Having with hir went,
Syne Portrator, Plefance and
lufty Cheiry
Then Refoun came with Scheild of Gold
In
Plait
of Mail
Defendit
as
me that
fb
cleir..
Mars armipotent,
noble Chevalier.
I
XVIII.
Syni
*tbt
QoUin
Serge.
31
XVIII.
rNi
tendir
Zomh came with hir
Irene Innocence
And
he
Virgins zing,
an&fchamefull Abajing,
quaking Dreidy with humbyl Obedience^
Gold in Terge
it
armit them naithing^
ouragc in them was nocht begun to fprings
Full fune they dreid to
Sweit Wtmanheid
,
Warld of
And
fcrvit
I
do a Violence:
faw come in Prcfencc^
Artelzie fcho did in bring,
Ladyis
full
of Reverence.
XIX.
CHO
with hir led Nurtoar and Lawlknefs9
ontmuance, Pacience, gude
lame and
Stedfajlnefss
Eifcration, Gentilnefs, Confidderansa
eful
Company, and honeft
Buiinefs,
Benign Luke, myld Cheir3 and Sobirnefs,
All thir bure Genzies to
ButRefoun bure the
'hair
For
do meGrivans;
Terge
fcharp Aflay micht do
all their
with
me no
fie
ConilanSj
Deirence,
Preis and awful Ordinans.
XX. Unto
jfibe
$2
Gvldzn T-erge*
XX.
Unto
~
the Prcifs purfewit Hie Degrie^
Hir followic ay
Efialt
,
W$/j Wamonefsy Renown and
A
And
3
did thair banner hie Difplay.
Clud of Flanes lyke Hail-fchot
fchot
till
..'J
^
Libertiey
and Fredome and Nobility
Wit ze they
'y.
and Dignitee,
Comparifan, Honour and nobill Arrayy
£/V/.>w
?
waftit
Syne went abak
was
rebutit
lowfit they,
thair Artelzie,
of the
Prey.,
XXI.
Quhen
Venus had perfavit
this
Rebute,
Scho bad BiJJemlan:e gae mak a Perfutc
With
And
all
her
Power
to prefs the
Goldin TerGeJ
fcho that was of Doublenefs the Rute,
Askit hir Choifs of Archers in Refute
:
Venus the beft bad hir to wale at lerge
Seho tuke Prefence
And
plicht
Anker of the Bergej
Fair Calling that weil a Flane can fchute.
And
Cherijfmg for to compleit hir Charge.
XXII.
Dame
The Goldin
Vterge.
33
xxir.
Dame
Company,
Hamel'mefs fcho tuke in
v
That hardy was and heynd in Archery,
And
With
brocht in Bewtie to the Feild again,
all
the Choife of Venus Chevelly,
They came and
bikkart unabaifitly:
The Showris of Arrows
Perrelus Prefence, that
The
Battill
The
rappit
mony
on lyke Rain,
a Syre has
brocht on Bordour hard
Aflalt
was
me
flair*.;
by,
the fairer Suth to fane.
all
xxur.
Thick
was the Schot of grundin Arrows kene,
But Rejfoun with the Goldin Scheild
Weirly deffendic quhofeir
The
awfull Schower he manly did fuftene,
Till Prefence keft a
And
Powdir
then as drukken
Quhcn he wes blind,
And
fac fchenc>
aflayit.
bannift
That
in his Ene,
Man
he
all
the Fule with
forwayit,
him they playit,
him amang the Bewis Grenej
Sicht fae fair
me
C
fuddenly
affrayit.
•
XXIV. Then
2^£ Goldin
34
tferge.
XXIV.
Then
And
was
1 woundit,
To Lady
Aftir that
Moments
Bewtie> in a
Methocht fcho
full neir,
befoir,
Quhy was
Space,
of Cheir,
feimit luflyer
Refiom had tynt
Than of
And
Deth
the
till
zoldin as ane woefull Prifoneir
Ene
his
cleir,
and lovarly of Face
thou blindit, Reffoun? quhy?
gart ane Hejl
And Mercy
my
allace!
Paradyce appeir,
feim quhair that
fand nae Grace.
I
XXV.
DissiMULANCE
And
Was
Fair Calling did
And
Cheriffing
me
bfffy
aft
favourt
me,
Syne tuke hir
Then faw
I
I
till
Men
Lief, I
to affyle,
upon me fmyle,
fed with
Acquentance new cmbrafit
And
me
me
Words
micht gae a Myle,
faw hir
Denger towart
rievir
me
mairj
repair,
cowth efchew
hir Prefence be nae
On
lukit
Syde fcho
fair,
a quhyle,
Wyle,
with a fremit Fare.
XXVI.
Anb
ttbe Goldin -Serge*
$g
xxvr.
And
couth hir Drels^
at the lafl deperting
And me
delyverit unto Havynefs,
For to remane, and fcho
Be
this
God
Eoltts
his Bougill
That with the
And
All
in
Cure
Lord of Winds with
the
me
fell
tuke;
Wodnefs,
blew, I gefs,
Blaft the Aiks in Foreft fchuke,
fuddenlie in the Space of a Luke,
was hyne went, ther was but Wildernefs,
Ther was nae mair but Bird and Bank and Brukc.
XXVIL
I
n twynckling of an Ee to Schip they went,
And
fwift
up
Sail
unto the Tap they
And with fwift Courfeout owre
They
fyrit thair
Till that the
Guns with Powdir
Reik
raife to
ftent,
theFIude they frak;
violent,
the Firmament,
The Rochis
all
For Reird
femit that the Rain-brow braks
With
it
refoundit with the Rak,
Spreit affrayit
upon
Ainangs the Ciewis, fae
€
*
my
Fcit I fprent
cairfull
was the Crak.
XXVIII.
And
Use Goldin ferge.
XXVIII.
36
And
The
as I did
awake
off this
Swowning,
joyfull Minftralls mirryly did fing,
For Mirth of Phehus tendir Beims fchene;
Sweit wer the Vapouris,
faft
the
Morrowing,
Hailfum the Vail, depaynt with Flowirs zing,
Air atemperit, fobir and amenej
The
In quhyte and reid was
Throw
all
the Eard befene,
Natures nobill frefch enamaling,
In mirthfull May, of every Moneth Quene.
XXIX.
O
reverend * Chawfer, Rofe of Rethouris
As
in our
That
Thou
The
Toung
evir raife in Brittane,
beirs
all,
the Flowir imperially
quha
reids richt,
of Makars the Triumphs
frefch enamallit
Termes
ryall,
celeflriall 5
This Matter thou couth haif ilumint bricht 5
Was
thou not of our IngUs
Surmounting every Toung
As
far as
Mayis
fair
all
the Licht
?
terreftriall,
Morning
dois Midnicht.
XXX.
o
* This Panygyrick on Chawfer, as 'tis pevfe&ly generous and, handtbme from a Scots Poet, it likewiie ihews
that the Lowland Scots Language and the EnÛjk at that
Time, were the lame.
$he Goldin
37
tferge.
XXX.
morale Goiver and Ltdgate laureat,
Zour fuggurat Toungs and Lipps aureat
Bene
till
our Eirs Catifc of
Zour Mouths
Our rude Language
And
Delytej v
grit
angelick, maift mellifluat,
hes cleir ilumynat,
has owre-gilt our Speich, that imperfytc
Stude, or zour goldin Pens did fchupe to wry*,
This Yle befoir was bair and difolate
Of
Rethorick, or lufly
fair indyte.
XXXI.
Thou
litle
Humbyl,
Quair be evir obedient,
fubjeft,
and femple of Intent,
Befoir the Face of every cunning Wicht,
1
knaw quhat thou of Rethorick
Of hir
Is
nane into thy Garland
O
Schame
Rude
has fpent,
maift lyftie Rofes redolent
is
thairfor,
fet
on Hicht
and draw the out of Sicht
;
thy Weid, bare, deftitute and rent,
Weil audit thou be
affeirit
of the Licht.
Quod Dunbar.
t
<& I
Lorges,
38
Lorges, lerges, lorges #y,
Lerges of this new Zeirs Day.
I.
-rj
I
est
Lerges
Quhilk came
And
To
in
my
of the King
ane Thei£
as queitly as
my Hand
Cheif,
twae.
(laid Schillings
put his Lergnes to the Preif3
For Lerges of this
new
Zeir Day*
II.
Syne
of
Lerges
Quhen
I to
He
But gaif
For
my Lord
him ane
fonziet not,
me
quhyle
Lerges
of
Chancelar,
Baiiat bare.
nor
I
faid
me
nay,
wald had mair 5
this
new
Zeir Day.
III.
Of
Callaway the Bifchop new,
Forth of my 'Hand ane Ballat drew.
And me
A
fair
delivert hot Delay,
Hacknay hot Hyd or Hew,
For Lorges of this new Zeir Day.
'
IV.
Anp
Lbrges, lerges, &c.
3$
IV.
fyne of Croce the Abbot zing,
And
him
I did to
But or
nae
I gat
arie Bailat
The
Secretar
me
And
He
frae,
than Deil a thing,
new
this
Zeir Day.
V.
baith war and wyfe,
of
a Caft
his Office;
for to reid
faid for
him
I paft a Pice
lefs
For Lerges of
Hecht
bring;
him
my
Bill
alfway.
that micht fuffice,
For Lorges of
new
this
Zeir Day.
VI.
The
Treafurer and Comptrollair,
They bad me cum
I wait not quhair,
And they wald gar,
I wait not
Gife me, I wait not quhat,
For Lerges of
this
new
quhae2
full fair,
Zeir Day.
VII.
Kow
Lorges of
my
Locdis
all
Baith temporall State and fpirituall,
My
I haif
felf fall evir fing
them fund
Of Lerges on
and
fay,
fae liberall
this
<£
new
4
Zeir Day.
VIII.
Foul
{a
Lorges, lerges, £j&
VIII.
Foul
fa this Froft that
It hes the
Baith
They may
Wyr,
the
is
Hands and Purfs
gife naithing
For Lerges of
fac fnelf,
Trewth
this
it
to
tell,
binds up fac,
bye thcmfell,
new
Zeir Day*
IX.
Now
The
Lerges of
quhilk in
He
Worth
Both-well,
Fredome did
gaif to
all this
my Lord
me
excell.
a Curfour gray
Sort, that I with Mell,
For Lerges of
this
nqw
Zeir Day.
X.
Grit
GOD releif Margaret our Queno
For gif fcho wer
as
fcho hes bene,
Scho wald be lerger of Lufray
Than
all
the laif that I of mene,
For Lcrgis of
this
new
Zeir Day.
Quod
Stewart.
Dumbars
H
41
DUMBARS DREGY;
^
Afcfc
iST.
James
V.
to£
in Stirvling.
ttt
E
To zou
Commends
I
us
that ar in Purgatory,
on our hearty Ways,
mene we Folk
in Paradyce,
In Edinbrugh with
To zou
Heavens Glory,
that ar heir in
all
Mirrynefs,
in Stirvling in Diftrefs,
Quhair nowther Pleafance nor Delyt
Thus
O
That
is
3
pittying ane Apoftle wryts.
ze Hermits and Hankerfaidlis,
tak
zour Penance
And
eit
Nor
drink the
at
zour Tables,
nae Meit reftorative,
But Ale that
is
Wyne
comfortative,
baith thin and fmall,
With but few Courfes
in
zour Hall,
Bot
Dumbars Dregy.
4^
got Company of Lords or Knychts^
Or ony
Soli tar
uther guidly Wichts,
walkand zour alane,
Scing naething but Stock or Stanc
Out of zour
painfull Puygatory,
To
bring zou to the Blefs of Glory:
OF
Edlnbru^h tne mirry
We
fall
Toun
begin a carefull Soua,
Ane Dregy kynd, devout and
meik,
The
Bleft
Zou
to delyvir out
And
bring zou fune to Ed'mbrughs Joy*
abune
we
befeik
fall
of zour Noy,
Thair to be mirry amang zour Freins,
And
fae the
Dregy thus
begins.
LECTIO
The
The
mirthfull
Of Angels
And
all
I,
* * *
all
Mary, Virgin
chaft,
the Orders nyne,
the heavenly Court divync,
Sune bring ze frae the Pyne and
Of
Stirvling, ilka
Wae
Court Mans Fae,
Dumbars Dregy.
I
4$
gain to Edlnbrughs Joy and Blifs,
Jyhair Worfchip,
Wealth and Weilfair is,
Hay, Pleafance, and eik Honefty,
Amen,
zc
Jay
for Charity*
RefponJiO) tu
Tak
autem Dom'me.
Confolation in zour Pain,
Tribulation, tak Confolation,
[n
3ut of Vexation
cum hame
again.,
tak Confolation in zour Pain
Jube Dom.
benedicite.
Out of Diftrefs of Stirvl'mg
Xo Edmbrugh
blefs
God
mak ze boun.
LECTIO
Patriarchs,
Toun
II.
Prophets and Apoftles deir,
Virgins, Confeflouris, Martyris cleir,
A.nd
all
the Seat
Devoutly
celeftiall,
we upon them
call,
That fune out of zour Pains
Ze
may
in
Heaven
heir
fell,
with us dwell,
^* Dumbars
44
To
eat
And
To
Lregy.
Swan and
Cran, Pertrick,
every Fifch that
fwyms
drink with us the
new
Pliver;
in River,
frefch
Wync
That grew upon the River Ryne,
Frefch fragrant Clarits out of France,
Of Anglers
and of Orliance,
With mony Comforts of
Say ze
Ameny
grit Dainty,
for Charity.
Rejponfum, tu autem
God
and Sand
Jeil heir
Baith fune and weil,
To
Sonce and
God
Seil,
and Sand
zou convoy
G o d and Sand Jeih
Solace and Joy,
Jeil heir
Out of Stirvlings
Dom.
Pains
zou convoy,
fell,
In Ed'mbrugh Joy fune mot ze dwell.
LECTIO
We
pray to
all
III.
the Saints in Heaven,
That ar abune the Starns feven,
Zou
to bring out
Jhat ze may fune
of zour Penance,
fing, play
and daunce
Dumbars Dregy.
In Edinbrugh heir, and
Quher Wealth and Weilfare
And
Intend to
1
bot Weir 5
is
do zour Pains difcryve
that
I
4jf
mak gude Cheir,
vifly
zou
belyve,
In Defart not with zou to dwell,
But
as the
Angel Saint Gabrlell
Dois go betwein, frae Heavens Glory,
To them
that ar in Purgatory,
Confolation them to give,
Sum
Quhyle they
in Tribulation live,
And fchaw them, quhen
They
Hou
fall
cum up
And
taftit
therfor
hou
taftit
Stirvllng
And
at
lad
5
Bittcrnefs;
fuld ze confidder
Edinbrughs Blefs,
But gif ze
Of
Heaven
nane deferves to haif Sweitnefs,
That nevir
Of
to
thair Pains ar paft,
quhen zou cum hidder:
had befoir
Toun, the Pains
foir,
therfore tak in Patience
Zour Penance and zour Abftinence,
And
ze
fall
cum or Zuk
Into the Blefs that
we
begin
ar in
j
Qiihilk
46
JDumbars Dregy.
Quhilk grant
we
pray to
all
on Hy,
Say ze Amen, for Charity..
Refponf. iu
Cum
Frae hydious Hell
Quhair Fifch to
Cum hame
ET ne
niair in Stirvling3
cum hame and
fell
dwell,
ar nane but Sprrling,
and dwell nae mair in
Stirvling.
nos inducas in tempt ationem de Stirvling,
Sed libera nos a malo
illius.
Regiam Edinburgi dona
Et lux
autem Bom.
name and dwell nae
iis y
Bom'mc>
ipfius lucent iis&
A porta
triftich de Stirvling,
Orna } Bomine i ananas eontm
;
Credo gujldre ftatim vinum Edinburgi,
In
villa
Vinentium,
Requfefeant Edinburgi*
Amen.
BEUS?3 qui jufios in corde humiks
Ex omnium eorum tribulations liberare
dignatus
es }
Libera famulos tuos apud villam Stirling verfd?ties
3
A pcenis
<&
trifiitiis
ejujdem^
Et ad Edinburgi gaudia
lit
requiefcat Striviling.
cos per due as
3
Amen.
TH
4^7
Dunbar and Kennedie
tierafter follows^ jocund and merrie.
tthe Flyting of
I.
£»
R
the Rofs, ane
John
Thing
ther
is
compyld
In generally by Kennedie and 6}umung9
Quhilk has themfelfs abune the Sterns ftyld;
But had they made of Menace ony mynting
In
fpecial,
then
Howbeit with
As
Stryfe fuld ryfe bot ftyntings
Boift thair
quha
Lucifer,
fie
frae the
Bofoms wer
as bendit
Heavens defcendit;
Hell fuld not hyd thair Harnis frae Harms hynting.
IL
The
Eard fuld tremble, Firmament
And
And
all
To
all
the Air invenomt fudden ftink,
the Deils in Hell for Redour quake
heir quhat I fuld
For gif I
The
flyt,
wryte with Pen and Ink 5
fum Sage
Se fuld burn, the
Roches
fuld fchakea
fuld ryve, the
for
Mune
Warld
Sae loud of Care the
Schame
fuld fink s
fuld tholl Eclips,
fuld bald nae Grips 5
common
Bell fuld clink.
III.
Bttx
Flyting 0/Dunbar and Kenneeiie-
48
in.
But Wonder
lairh
wer
I to
be a Baird,
Flyting to ufe, for gritly I efchamej
Sen
it
is
nowther Winning nor Rewaird,
But Tinfell baith of Honour and of Fame,
Increafe of Sorrow, Sklander and
ill
Name;
Zit micht they be fae bauld in thair Back-byting
To
gar
me ryme and
And throw
ilk
raife
Place,
the Feynd with Flyting,
and Kinrick them proclaim.
Quod
Kennedie
Dunbar
to
to
Kennedij.
Dunbar.
I.
Tpv Irten Dunbar, on quhome
-W
Pretendand thee to wryte
Thou raw-moud
p
My
blaws thou thy
Boift?
Rebald,
fie fcaldit
fall
doun
Laureat Liems at thee, and
Skrows,
at the Roiftj
I
lows,
Mandrag,
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedies
49
Mandrag, Mymmerkin, maid Maifter but in Mows,
Thou
thryce
fcheild
with a threid-barC
Trumpir,
Goun,
Say Deo Mercy, or I cry the doun,
And
and thy Kowsl
leave thy ryming, Rebald,
II.
DREitfj
My
dirtfail
Deafen, that thou has difobeyt
Coufin Qumiine^ and
my
tantaftick FUle, truft weil thou
Ignorant
Elf,
Commiflar,
fall
b^fleyt^
Ape, Owl, irregular,
Skaldit Skaitbird
and
common
Skandelar;
Wanfuckit Funnling, that Nature maid an
Baith
Gif
John
eir I heir
the Rofs and thou
fall
fqueil
Yrle,'
and skirls
oeht of zour making mair;
III.
Here
I put Silence to thie in all Parts,
Obey and
ceifc the
Play that thou pretends $
Weak Waly-draig and Werlot of
Se fune thou mak
my
the Carts,
Commiflar Amends^
&
An4
Flyting e/Dunbar and Kennedie.
$©
And
let
him
lay fax Leifchis
on thy Lends3
Meikly in recompenceing of thy Scorn,
Or
thou
fall
ban the
For Kennedie to thee
Quod
Juge
Kennedie
in the nixt
Dunbar
Tgi
Rsch
~r*.
Lyke
that thou
was born
Schedule fends,
unto
Dunbar,
quha gat the war.
to
Kennedie.
brybour Baird, vylc Beggar with thy
Bratts,
Coward of Kynd 3
Sunt-bittin Kennedie,
Ill-fart
Tyme
this
and
as
dryit^ as
the
Denfman on
the Rarts,
Gledds had on thy gule
Snowe
dynd$
Monfter- mifmaid,
ilk
Mune
out of thy
Rebald renounce thy ryming, thou but
Thy
A
trechour
Tung
lawland Erfe wald
Mynd3
>
royis.
has tane a heland Strynd;
mak a
better Noyis.
II,
Riven
Flyting of'Dunbar and Kennedie.
$\
II.
Ill v en, raggit Ruke, and
full
of Rebaldrie,
Scart Scorpion, fcaldit in Scurilitiei
t fe the haltahc in thy Harlotrie,
And
into uther Science nothing
Of every
Vertew wyd,
Quyt claim with Clergy,
as
flie.
Men may
cleik to thee
fe;
a Club3
Blafphemar Baird, in Brybrie ay to be
Wifdom and Wit
a
Wifp
may
frae thee
5
rub.
III.
Dastard,
thou fpeirs,GifI dare with thee fecht?
2e Dagone, dowbart,
Quhair
To
eir
therof haif thou nae Dout
meit therto,
my Hand
I
j
hecht
redd thy Rebald ryming with a Rout
Throw
Hou
we
Britain braid
that thou,
With
poyfond
it fall
be blawn about,
Pelbtir, gat thy Paiks?
a Dog-Leifch, I fchepe to gar the fchou^
And nowther
to thee tak Knyfe,
Swerd or Aix.
IV.
Thou
Crop and Rute of Tray tor
Fader and
Deceitfull
treafonablc.
Muder of Morthor and
Mifcheif^
Tyrand, Serpent tungd, unftable,
Cuckald, Cradoun, Couard and
3& z
common Theif
Thou
Wiping of Dunbar and Kennedie.
§±
Thou purpofd
anes to
undo our Lord and Chid
In PaiJIay, with a Poyfon that was
For quhilk Brybour
Pelor, I
prieve
fall it
,
zit fall
fell,
thou thole a Breif 5
my
on thee
fell.
V.
Tho
I
Wald
lie,
thy frawart Phifnomy
Dois manifeft thy Malice to
Fy Traytour
Fy Feyndlyke Front,
My
all
Men 5
Theif, fy Glengore Loun, fy, fy,
far fouler
than a Fen,
Freynds thou haft reprovit with thy Pen,
Traytour thou
leis,
quhilk I
fall
on thee
preivefj
Suppofe thy Heid wer armit Tymis ten,
Thou
fall
recryit, or I
thy
Crown
fall
ckivc.
VI.
Oa. thou durft move thy
Thou faw
But. Eolus
Mynd
the Sail abune
full
my
malitious,
Heid updrawj
wid, and Nepunus,
Mirk andMunelefsjWas met With Wind and Wavesj
And mony
a hundreth
Myles hynd coud us blaw
By Holand3 Zetland and the Northway Coaft,
In Deferts
Zit
cum
I
vaft,
hame,
quhair
fals
we wer
famift
aw,
Baird, to lay thy Eoaft.
VIL Thou
Flfling of'Dunbar and Kennedie.
$$
VII.
Thou
£Ja3
Thou
thee Rethory with thy goldin Lipps
callis
glowrandj gapeand Fule, thou
art but
Glunfchoch with the
;
art begyld,
Hipps,
giltit
That for thy Lounrie mony a Leifch has
fyld
5
Vain Widdifow, out of thy Wit gane wyld 3
lathand as a Lcik,
ILaithly and Iowfy,
Sen thou of Worfchip wad
HailSovraign Schir, thy
B—
-s
fae fain
be ftyld;
hing throw thy Breik.
VIII.
Forworthin
Quhat
Sic
Ferly
Eloquence
In
fie is fet
Thou
has
I haif on
is
Fule, of
all
Warld Refufe,
thoeht thou rejoyce to
as they in
flyt ?
Earfry ufe,
thy trawart Appitytej
full litle Feil
me
the
of
fair
Indyte,
a Pair of Lozvthi'ane Hipps,
Sail fairer Inglis
Than thou can
mak, and mair
perfyte,
bleber with thy Carrick Lipps.
IX.
Bettir
thou gains to
leid
a
Dog
to skomer,
Pynd Pyck-purfe Pelour, than with thy
£
Thou
lay richt prydles in the Peis this
And
Maifter
pinglej
fain at
Sommer?
Evin for to bring hame a Single,
Syms
*P 3
Flft?ngQfD\mh2LrattdK.etmedie,
54
Syne rubbd
In Winter
Thou
it
now
at
ane uther auld Wyfis Ingle
for Purtith thou art trakit,
has nae Breiks to
Gae beg
let
thy Hawlocks gingle,
a Club, for Bard thou
fall
gae nakit.
X.
Lean,
lounger, Iowfy, baith in Lisk and LurKtie,
Fy, skowdert Skyn, thou art but Skyre and Skrumples
For^ he that rolled
Lawrance had thy Grunzie,
And he
that hid Saint Johns
And he
that
Thy
foul Front
The Gallows
As thou wald
Een with a Wimple,
dang Saint Augujlyne with
had he that Bartilmo
a
Rumple,
flayd;
gapes after thy graceles Gruntle,
for a Haggles,
hungrey Gled.
XL
Comer wald Craw don,
nane compts the a Kerfs,
Sweir fwapit, fwanky Swyne, Kepar ay for Swats:
Thy Commiflaf Quimyne
}ie lykes not
He
fays,
Nor ony
fie
Thou
bids the
a forlane
skaffs
cum
Loun of
kis his Erfs,
Laitsj
and begs mair Beir and Aits,
Criple in Carrick Land about:
Uther pure Beggars thole with thee Debate,
Callings decript on Kennedie cry out.
XII.
Mat-
Flyting of'Dunbar and Kennedie.
$j
XII.
Matter
enough
Thocht thou
I haif, I neid
not fenzie;
Trumper has upon me
foul
Carrion corrupt, hich
fall
I
lied.
cry thy Senziej
Thinks thou not hou thou came into
grit
Neid,
Greitand in Gallaway, lyke Gallow Breid,
Ramand and rowpand, beggand Ky and Ox,
I
faw thee there into thy Watchmans Weid,
Quhilk was not worth a Pair of auld gray Socks.
XIII.
Ersch K atherene
Thou and
With Polks
Thair
thy
with thy Polk, Breik and Rilling^
Quean
as greidy
to Mill,andbegsbaithMeil
A
and Schillings
but Lyce and lang Nails zou amang,
is
Foul Heggerbald, for Hens
Thou
Gleds ze gang
this will
has a perilus Face to play with
Thoufand Kids
ze hang,
Lambs 5
w'er they in Falds full ftrang,
Thy Limmer Luke wald
fley
them and
thair
Dams*
XIV.
In till
A
With
Ze
a Glen thou has, out of Repair,
laithly
Ludge
that
thee a Soutars
lyke
twa
was the Lipper Mens,
Wyfe of
Stalkers fteils in
^4
Blafs as bair,
Cocks and. Hens,
Thou
Flyting o/Dunbar and Kennedie.
$6
Thou
pluks the Poultry, fcho pulls affthe Pens.
All Carrickcrys,
And quhen
God
gin
this
Dowf wer drowndj
thou heirs a Gufe
cjuaik in the Glens*
Sweiter thou thinkft than Mattins Bell of Sound.
XV.
Thou
To
To
Lazarus, thou
all
luke
upon thy
For hydious,
Thy Cheik
how and
holkit
bane bair, and
it
be,
gryflie pitious Port,
thy Choi, gars
Thy Ganc
kin Tramort,
Warld thou may Example
the
Thy Chop,
laithly
gars us
is
thine Ee,
blaikint
thy Blie,
is
mony Men
mynd
that
live chafle^
we maune
diej
I conjure thee, thou hungert hyland Ghaift.
XVI.
The
larbar Lukes
Thy
Thy
leineft
-
pure pynd Throple
skoldirt Skin,
Gars
of thy lang
Men
hewd
peilt,
Craig,
and out of Ply^
lyke a Saffron-bag,
difpyt thair Flefch, thou Spreit
of Gy
:
Fy! feyndly Front, Fy! Tyks Face, Fy! .O Fy!
Ay Loungand,
Thy
Lyke
ghaiftly
a deid
lyke a
Luke
Theif
Lock-man on a Ladder;
fleys
thats
Folks that pas thee ..by,
glowrand
in a
Tedder,
'XVII.
Nyss
Fly ting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
57
XVII.
Nyse
Nagus, Nipcaik, with thy Schulders narrow a
loufy lukes, and
Thou
tume of Lumis Aw,
Hard Hurchcon, hirpland, hippit
Thy
Rig-bane
an Harrow 5
like
and thy Ribs on raw,
ratles,
Thy Hanches hurklis with Hukebanes harfli and haw*
Thy
laithly
Lymms
ony Treis
are lcin as
Obey, Theif Bard, or
I fall
brek thy
:
Gaw,
Foul Carrybald, cry Mercy on thy Kneis.
XVIII.
Thou
fcowry
hippit, ugly Averil,
With hurklapd Banes, ay howkand throu thy Hyde,
Reiftit
And
and crynd,
hangit
Man on
befwakit with an
aft
Quhilk brews
Hir Care
as
is all
Quhair thou
owre
Hill,
hie
Tyde,
richt meikle Barret to thy
to
Bryd ?
clenge thy Cabroch Hows,
lyes fawfly jn Saffron back
JPowdert with Primrofe, fwarmand
all
and Syde,
with Clows.
XIX.
Worlin
Thou
Wanworth,
I
warn
thee
Wan wraigland Wafp,mae Worms
Than
it is
written,
skyland Skarth, thou has the Hurle behind,
there
is
Graft on
thou has befhitten
Ground or
Beifl
onLind;
Tho
Flyting 0/ Dunbar and Kennedie.
SB
Tho
fhou
thou did
fall
Thy
me
Folly to
firft fie
find
mae Witnes than
again with
5
I,
Gulfchoch Gane does on thy Back
Thy whoftand Hipps
let
it
bind,
neer thy Hofe be dry.
XX.
Thou
held the Burch lang with a borrowit
And an Caprowfy
with Sweitj
barkit all
And quhen the Lads faw
They
bickert thee with
Now
upland thou
Gown.
thee fae like a Loun,
mony
lives rife
a Bae and Bleit,
on
rubit Quhicr,
Aft for ane Caufe thy Burdclaith neids nae fpredding..
For thou has nowther for to drink or
But
like
XX
Strait
I.
Gibbons Air, that neir owreftrade a Horfc
Blae barefut Bairn, in bare
Thou
Tyme was
thy Boetings hobbland hard as
Horn,
Strae Wifps hing out quhair that
the
And
Wats
ar
worn,
thou again to skar us with thy Straes,
We fall gar skale our
ilane thee
Schulis
up the Cawfy
all
as
1
thou bornj
brings the Carrik Clay to Edinburgh Crofs,
Upon
Cum
eit,
a berdlefs Bard that had nae Bedding.
thee to skorn,
thou gaes.
XXII.
Thi
Flytingof Dunbar *z#^ Kennedie.
XXII.
The
Boys of Edinburgh,
And ay
Then
Then
Carlings cry, Keip Curches in the
3
merk5
gapes, lo quhair a gracelefs gaes
Anithcr fays, I
red
out thraw$3
the Bitches at thy Buttings bark.
all
Our Gallows
I
as the Beis
cums our awtnquier Clerk
thou lyk a Houlat chaift with Craws,
fleis
Quhyle
'
crys out, Heir
$9
ye Kimmer
fe
him want a Sark,
tak in your Linning Clais.
XXIIL
Then
And
Of
rins
all
thou doun the Gate, with Gild of Boys$
the
Town Tykes
Lowns
Lads and
Quhyle Wenches
And
hingand
ther ryfes
rin
Cadgers Avers
fie
at thy Heils$
a Noyfe,
away with Cards and Quheik,
caft baith
Coals and Creils
$
For Reird of thee, and rattling of thy Butes.
Fi(h
Wyves
cry fy, and cad:
down Skulls and skeils3
Sum clames
thee,
Loun
Mahoun3 be boun me
fome clods thee on the Cutes.
XXIV.
lyke
Thief,
now
Cry Grace, Tyks Face, or
Qw^ ra r
i
till
obey
in Greif, Mifcheif fall betyde,
an d 20u ^
I thee chafe
I fall defoul thy
and
fley,
Pryde;
Peild
6o
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
Pcild Gled, baith fed, and bred of Bitches Syde;
Sac lyke a Tyke, Purfpyke,
quhatMan
Forflitten,Sunt-bitten, befti
Climb Ledder,
fyle
fets
barkit
Tedder, foul Edder,
by thee,
Hyde.
I defy thee,
XXV.
Mauch
Mutton, byle Button, percht Glutton, Air
to Hillhoufe;
Rank Beggar, Oyfe-dreggar,
foul fleggar in the
Fleits
Chitter-lilling,
Ruck-rilling, Lick-fchilling
in
the
Mill-houfe
Bawd
Rehator,
Thief of Nature,
falfe
Traytor,
Feynds Get,
Filling
art
of Tauch, Rak fauch, Cry Crauch thou
owrefct;
Mutton Dryver, Girnal Ryver, zad Skyvar
foul
fell
thee;
Heritycjc, Lunatyck, Purfpyk, Carlines Pet,'
Rotten Crok, dirten Dok, cry Cok, or
I fall quell thee,
Ken-
Kennedies
J-^
OTHANE
*^
Anfwer
Dunbar.
DeilsSon, and Dragon difpytou$i
Abirams Birth, and bred with
Wod Werwouf Worm,
Lucifer s Laid,
Thou
%
and foul Feyhds Face Infernal;
I
not Silence to the Shiphird Knave,
Gin thou of new
Thou
Beliall,
and Scorpion vennemous
Sodomite feperatefrae Saints Celeftal;;
Put
|F
to
6i
fall
begins to
rymc and
be made baith blate and
bleir
rare,
Eied BeltxaL
II.
How
thy Forbeirs are come, I have a
Of Cockburns-Peth, the
Fell,
Writ makes me a war*
Generit betwixt a fcho Beir and a Deil
Sae he was calld Beilber and not
Bunbar
:
This Beilber generic of a Meir of Mar.
Corfpatrick Earl
The
Was
firft
of Merch, and be
Ilufion,
that eir pat Scotland in Confufion^
that falfe Traytor firmly fay I dare.
111.
QEuhesi
Hyting of Dunbar and Kennedies
%z
ill.
Quhen BRUCE
Scots
mdBaliol
dirfert for the
Lords could not obey the
This Corfpatrick betrayed Berwick
Inglis
Town,
And
flew Seven thoufand Scott within
The
Battle fyne
And came
Crou
Laws j
thaeWav
of Spottfmuir he gart caufe,
with
Edward Lang/banks to the Per
Where Twelve thoufand
true Scottijh
Men wc
killd,
And
Wallace chaift, as the Chronicle (haws.
IV.
SCOTS Lords
andChiftains he gart hald and Cheuo;
In Firmance
faft, till all
the Fcild
was done,
Within Bumbar thatauld Spelunk of Treafonj
Sae
Inglis
Then
The
He
Tykes
in Scotland
fpulziet they the
was abune;
Haly Stane of Scone $
Crols of Halyroodhoufe, and
fie
Jewells j
birns in Hell, Body, Banes and BoWells,
This Corfpatrick that Scotland has undone.
WALLACE gart cry
And
V.
an Counfale into Perth,
calld Corfpatrick
Traytor be
his Style,
But that damnd Dragon drew him in Diferth,
And
faid
he kend but Wallace King in Kyle,
Out of Dunbar that Theif he made
Unto Edward and Inglh Ground
Serpents and Taids and Tigers
In 'Dunbar
6$
Exyle,
again
fall
Waws, Tods, Woufs and
remain,
Beifls
vyld
VI.
Tab Fowles
of* EfFeft,
now amange
Biggs nor abydes, for nothing that
hy
thae Blnks,
may
be,
Stanes of Treafon as the Bruntftane ftinks*
Of Deilbers Mother
The Variet Aple of
That
Scho
Adam
eit
eit
caftert in the Se.
.
the forbidden Tree,1
quheh he
envennomM
tint
like a
Paradyce,
Cockatryce/
&yne marriet with the Deit for Dignitie.
VI
I
t of new Treafon
I can tell the Tales,
That cums on Nicht by Vifion
Irchbauld
Dunbar betrayd
the
in
my
Sleip,
Houfe of Hales,
Becaufe the zung Lord had Dunbar to keip,
Throu
that pretendand to their
Rowms to
creip '5
Richt crewely his Caftle he purfeuet,
Broucht him forth boundin, and the Place re*
skewt^
Set
him
in fetters
m
a
Dungeon
deip.
VIII.
l°i
64 Flyting of Dunbar and Kenn^die^
VIII.
1t
were
againft baith
Nature and gude Reafon,
That Deilbers Bairns were true
to
God
Man
or
Quhilk were baith gotten, born and bred in Treafoi
Belzebubbs
Oys and
Thou was
prefcryvt and ordaind be Sathan,
Now
to be
And
gar
Thy Kin
curft Corftatrhks Clan.
born to do thy Kin Defame,
me maw
thy Anteceflburs Schame,
may wary
that lives
thee and ban.
IX
Sin
thou on
And
Thy
fends
me
Lymmer
leis
and
trattlis,
Elders Banes ryfe ilka Nicht and ratlej
And on thy
Thou
Corfs, Vengance,
Caufe they
art the
Thou fays
But gars
And
thus
Sentence foundit of Envy j
fie
for
me
thair auld Sin
may
Vengance they
not
reft
nor
them fewiWer^Salmsor
tell
their Rentells
with
cry
ly
I!:
Creidj
and Mifdeids*
new Schame certefy.
X.
Insenswat
And knaw,
And
gar
Sow,
kein Scald I hald of Alathia,
me not
Of thy
ceis fals Eujiaces Air^
curft
the Caufe lang to declair,
Kin Deilber and
his
Alia
5
Cun
Cum
to the Corfs
6$
en Kneis and mak a Cria,
Confefs thy Cryme, hald Kennedie thy King,
And
Thus
with a Hawthorn fcourge thy
drie thy
Pennance
fell
and ding,
dele quifti quia.
XI.
Pass
my Commifar
to
and be confeft,
Before him cour on Kneis and
And fyne
cum
in Will
5
gar Stobo for thy Lyfe proteft:
Renunce thy Rymes,
baith ban
and burn thy
Bill,
Heive to the Heaven thy -Hands and hald thee
Do
thou not
With
On
this
Brigane thou
Pik, Tar, Fyre,
fall
ftill.
be brint
Gun-powder and
Lint,
j4nbur-Sate> or ony hicher Hill.
XII.
[
haif ambulate on Parnafo the Mountain,
Infpyrt with Hermes frae his golden Sphere,
And
dulcely drunk of Eloquence the Fountain,
Quhen
purifeet with Froft,
And thou
There
haft
till
cum
and flowand
Merch or
cleir,
Fehrueir->
ane Pule and drunk the PadockRude^
That gars thee
And
in
Ryme in Terms ©f Sence denude
blaber Things that
wyfe
<g
Men hate
to heir.
XIII.
Thow
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedies
66
XIII.
Thou
But
It
luves nae Erijh, Elf, I underftand,
it
fuld
was the
be
all
true Scotijmens Beidj
gude Language of this Land,
firft
And Scot a
gart
it
Till Corfpatrkk that
multyplie and ipreid,
we of Tfeafon
reid,
Thy Fore-fader, made Erfche and Erfchtnen
Throu
his
Treafon brocht
Ingljs
Fauouns
thin,
my
Sae wald thy fell, micht thou to him fucceed.
XIV.
Fule
It
Ignorant, in
may
all
thy
Mo wis and Makks,
be verryfeit thy Wit
is
thin,
Qiihen thou wryts Benfmen dryd upon the Ratts*
Denfmen of Denmark
The Wit thou
Even
at
are of the Kings Kin,
fuld have
had was caften
in,
thy Erfe backward with an Staw-flung $
Therfore, fals Harlot Hure-fonj hald thy
Tungj
Delbkr thou deives the Deii thy Erne with Din.
XV.
Qu h a i r a s
I let thee
Thou wald
thou
Wit
fays, that I fleil
I haif
be fain to
Under my Burde
Hens and Lamms^
Land Store and
gnaw Law with
frufh
Staks,
thy
Gamms
Banes behind Dogs Backs,
Thy
Thy
Purfe
On
I
67
haifbaith Steids and Caiks,
1
Thou tint
Thy
tume,
its
the Sok, I Cdulter haif and Pleuchi
Geir and Subftanee
a
is
Widdy
teuchj
Saltom Mount, about thy Craig to rax.
XVI,
And
zit
mount Saltom Gallows
For to be
fleyt
with
is
owre
faiij
a frontles Face;
fie
Cum hame and hing under an Trie ofAir^
To eard thee under it, I fall purchafe Grace>*
To
eit
thy Flefh the
Ravens
For thou
Dog
fall
haif nae Space.
ry ve naething but thy
fall
Tung
Rutes J
Malice of thy Matter mutes,
fie
It is weil fet that
thou
barret brace*
fie
XVII.
A
fmall Fynance
To
Thou
amang thy
Freiiids
ftanche thy skorne with haly
faild to get
It Jyes clofd in
a
Dowkar
a Clout
aft
Cryand
fit
at
fupperlefs
Doris,
Breikles, Barefute,
and
€
loft
for to dreggit;
on North-way Coaft,
Sic Revel gars thee be fervt
And
thou beggrt,
Mulds thou
With cauld Roaft,
beyond the Se,
Cantas amore DEI,
all
*
Duds up
in
•
doit.
XVIII.
D E IL*
Fly ting of Dunbar and Kennedle.
6S
XVI ii.
DEILBER
The
Earls
That to
has nocht ado with a Dunbar
of Murray bure that Surname
their
Of that
King ay true and conftant war
Kin came Dunbar of
That Succeflion
And
is
5
Wefifield Knicht,
hardy, wyfe and wicht
is
now
has naithing ado
But Deilber
And
5
rickt,
with the Deri,
thy Kin, and kens the Weil,
has in Hell for thee a Chalmer dicht.
XIX.
Curst
And
Derch
crupand Craw,
thou
I fall
fall
fall
fall
I fall
gar crop thy
Cormundum on
ding thee
And thou
I
cry
till
I
Tung,
thy Kneis,
gar thee dung,
lick thy Lipps and fweir thou
lies:
degrad the graclefs of thy Greis,
Scald thee for Skorn, and fcor thee af thy Sule,
Gar round thy Heid transform
And with Treafon
gar trone thee
thee as a Fule,
on the
Treis.
XX.
Rawmoud Rebald, and Ranegald Rehator,
My Lynage and Forbeirs war evir leil,
It
cums
T©
aft to
thy
fell
to be a
Tray tor,
ryde by Nich^ to rin, to reive and
fteil,
Quhstt
Flyting of Dunbar and Kenndte.
Quhen thou
Thee
puts Poyfon to
Claim not to Clergy,
Thou
buy
fall
me
and prive
in that Place,
I appeil
it
on thy Perfon,
I defy thee,
deir enouch,
it
69
Garfoun,
Derch of the Dal*
XXI.
In
Owl,
Inglandj
Homage
Into
to
Dunbar
They
Ane
fould be thy Habitation
Edward Langjhanks made
him thy
refaivt
fals
Nation:
fould be exylt Scotland mair and
ftark
Gallows, a
Widdy and
The Heid Poynt of
;
thy Kin,
thy Elders
myn,
a Pin
Arms
are
Hang Dunbar,
Written abune in Poyfie,
Quarter and draw, and make that Surname thin.
XXII.
I
am
the Kings Blude, his trcw and fpecial Clerk,
That nevir
zit
imagind
his.
Offence,
Conftant in Mynd,in Thocht, in Word, and WarkA
Dependand only on
his Excellence,
Trcftand to have of his Magnificence,
Gwairdoun, Reward, and Benyflce bedein,
Quhair that the Ravins
And on
the Rattis
&
fall
ryve out baith thy Ein
be thy Rdfidence.
XXIII. F*a*
4
fall
Fly ting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
xxiii.
*jo
Frae
Atrlck Foreft forward to Domfreife,
beggit with a Pardon in
Thou
all
Kirks,
CollapSj Cruds,Butter, Meil, Grots, Gryce, andGeis,
And
undernicht quhyles thou
Becaufe
Thou
now Scotland
Staigs andStirksf
of thy begging
(haips in France to be Knicht
Thou has
Ilk
flail
Ways
irk$,
of the Feild,
thy Clam Shells and thyBurdoun keild,
unhoneft, Wolrun, that thou works.
XXIV.
Thou
may not
pafs
Mont Bernard
Nor win throw Mount
Mount
Nicholas, Mount
Sic Beis
for wild Beifts,
Scarpary for the Snaw,
Godard thee
arreifts,
of Briggand blinds them with a Blaw.
In Paris with thy Matter Burreau,
Abyde and be
And
And
at
his Prentife neir the
Bank,
help to hang Fripons for half a Frank,
the
laft
thy felf
maun
thole the
Law.
XXV.
Thou
haltand Harlot neir a gude thou hais,
For Fait ofPuffance, Peilor^thou may pak thecj
Thou
drank thy Sark, and
There
is
als
wedfet thy Qais ;
nae Lord in Service that will tak thee.
lA
7
Pack of Flae-Skins Fynance for to mak thee,
Danskyn of
my
Thou
fall
With
de profundi; fet thee and that failzic,
And
I fall
receive at
Tailzie,
fend the blak Deil for to bak thee.
XXVI.
1
n t o the Kather'me thou made
For thou bedrait
Upon
doun
hir
a foul Kahute;
frae Stern to fteir,
her Sydes was fein that thou could fchute,
Tows
Twenty Zeir,
The
Dirt cleaves
The
Firmament nor Firth was never
till
hir
this
cleir,
Quhile thou, Deils Birth Deilher3 was on the
Ilk Saul
War not
Sie»
had funkin throu the Sin of thee,
the People
made
fae miekle Prayer.
XXVIL
Qu hen
Foul
Thou
was faynt and under
that the Schip
Brow
fchot and
was not
Skiper bad gar land thee
Thou fpewd and
Fafter
And
ficker
nor
all
of thy Tail,
Compas and
Belhait the Steir, the
The
Sail,
in Hoil thou purport for to pafs,
cuftc
the Glafs,
at the Bafs,
mony
a laithly
Lump,
the Mariners coud pump,
m thy Wame
is
<£
war nor
^
eir it
was.
xxvill. Hap
72
Flyting of Dunbar an& Kennedie.
Had
they been fae provided of Schot of
XXVIII.
By Men of Weir,
Gun
bot perell they had paftj
As thou was lowfc and ready with thy Bun,
They
neid haif tane nae towing at the
For thoq could cuke a Cartful
Ther
is
nae Ship that thee will
now
Fatter thou fylt than Fyfteenfum
And myrd them
Throw
with thy
might
laife,
mid Maft.
XXIX.
And bo nd
to haif with thee a fals
call
Botwand,
thee at the Mute,
with that Craft convoy thee throw the Land.
Be naithing
airch, but fairly tak in
Happen thou
Then
For
to the
refaif,
Ingland theive, and tak thee to thy Fute,
Ane Horfmanfhell thou
And
Muck
laft,
at a Caftj
that
all
to be hangit in
Hand,
Northumber,
thy Kin are weil quit of thy Cumber,
maun be
thy
Dume
I
underftand.
XXX.
Hie
fovcrain Lord,
Do Schame
Let neir again
A
rotten
frae
fie
let
neir this finful Sot
hame unto zour Nation^
an be
calld a Scot,
Crok Lowfe of the Dok
ther doun.
Flytingof'Dunbar and Rennedie.
73
the laithly Loun,
Frae honeft Folk devydc
wyld Defert quhair ther
On fum
For
is
no Repair*
and infeding of the Air,
fyling
Carry this cankert corrupt Carion.
XXXI.
Thou was
confavit in the grit Eclipps,
Ane Monfter maid be
'
Nae
H aid-again
or
Ho
grit Mercurius>
is
on thy Hipps,
Infbrtunate, curft, falfe and furious,
Hl-fchriven, wan-thriven, not clein nor curious,
A
A
A
Myting
for flyting, the
Flurdome maift
lyke?
crabbit, fcabbit, ill-fack Meflen-tyke,
Schit,
bot Wit, fchrewt and injurious.
XXXII.
G r e 1 t in the Glaik?
3
gude Maifter Gwiliane Gowkkss
Maift imperfyte in Poetrie and Profe,
All clofs under the
Cloud of Nicht thou coukks;
Rymes thou of me, of Rethory
Lunatick
That
Lymmar, Lufchbald,
I
may touch
thy
the Rofe
lous thy Hofc,
Tung with
Tribulation^
In recompenfing of thy Confpiration,
Or
turfs thee
out of Scotland, tak thy Choice.
XXXIII. A
Flyting 0/Dunbar and Kennedie.
94
XXXIII.
A
quha waid
Benefice
gife fie a Beift,
But gif it wer to jingle 3»i<M
Tak
Bells,
thee a Fiddle or a Flute to jeft,
Undocht thou
Thy
art,
ordaind for naithing
ells,
clouted Cloak, thy Scrip and Clam-fchells,
Cleik
on thy Crofs, and
And cum thou
The Feynd
fair
fair
on
into Trance.
neir again without Mifchancej
with the forward ower the
Fells.
XXXIV.
Canker t
Cayne, tryd Trowane,
tute-villous,
Marmadin, Mynmerkin, Monfter of
I
all
Men,
fall
gar bake thee to the Laird of Hillhoufe,
To
fwelly thee inftead of a pullt
Hen $
Fazart Fowmart, foftert in Filth and Fen,
Foul frontit Feynd, Fule upon thy Phyfhomy,
Thy Dok
To
tume thy
ay dreips of Dirt, and will not dryj
Tun wald
tyre Carlings ten.
XXXV.
Curst
Confpirator, Cockatrice, Hells Ka,
Turk, Trumper, Traytor, Tyranne, intemprate,
Thou
yrefull Attercap, Pylat, Apoftata,
Judas, Jew, Janglor,
lollard
Lawreat,
Sarazen,
Flyting o/Dunbar and Kennedie.
75
Sarazenx Symonite, proud Pagan, pronunceat,
Mahomeit, manfworn, Atheift abominable,
Deil dampint
Dog,
Gog and Magog
iiVkh
in
Vyce
greit
infatiabk,
Glorificat.
XXXVI.
NERO
thy Nevoy, Goliah thy Grandfyrc,
Pharo thy Fader, Egyppa thy Dame,
Dcilbeir thir ar, the
Caufe that
I
confpyre
Gainft thee, and ilka futie Deil thy
felzabub thy
To
full
Eme 5
Brudder he will claim
be thy Air, and Cayphas thy Sector,
Pluto Heid of thy Kin and thy Protector,
To
leid the
doun
to Hell frae Licht
and Leme.
XXXVII.
D E 1 l b e 1 r, thy Speir
of Weir, bot Feir, thou zeild,
Hangit, Mangit, Edder-ftangit,SrryndieS?«W#?»5
•fo
me, maift
hie, Kennedie,
and
flie
the Feild;
Picket, wicket,ftricket,convickit, Lump lullardorum^
Defamit, fchamit, blamit, primus Paganorum
Out
out, I fchout
upon
that
Snout that
Tale-teller, Rebeller, Indweller
5
fnevils,
with the Divelsj
$pink, fink, with Stink ad Tartara termagorum.
The
76
The merry Teftament of Mafier Andro Kenned/,
Maid by Mafier William Dunbar, when he was like to dy,
h
Matter Andro Kennedy y
-jr
A
fum
curio qua?ido
vocatus,
Begotten with fum Incuby,
Or
with fum Freir infatuatm
cannot, Faith,
J
nams3
Unde. ant ubi fui
But
this in
Gjnod
Truth
fum
}
redely,
tell
trow trewly,
I
Diabolus incarnttus.
II,
CUM
We
nihil fit certim
maun
all
die
morte9
quhen we haif done*
Nefcimus qua,ndo 3 vel qua fort
Nor
y
blind allane wait of the
Monej
Ego patior in peclore3
Throw
Nicht
I could not fleip a
Wink
Licet &ger in corpore,
*
Zjt
wald
my Mouth
be wat with Drink.
III.
NUNC
geftamentofMr. Andre Kennedie. 77
5
NUNC
in.
meum\
condo Tefiamentum
I leave roy Saul for evirmair,
Deum>
Per omnipotentem
Into
Semper
Wyne
my
Lordis gude
ibi
ad remanendum,
^
{
Dumefday cum without
Till
Cellar,
Diflever,
Bonum vinum ad bibendum }
fweit Cuthbert that luved
With
me
ricvito
IV.
IPSE
He
eji
amandum,
dutch ad
wald
aft
me
ban
in his Braith,
Bet mihi modo ad potandum>
And
I
forgave
Quia, in Cellar
I
had
Nudus
him
cum
and wraith^
laith
cervifia,
leur ly baith
air
and
late,
folus in camijia,
Than
in
Lords braw Bed of
my
State.
V.
A
Barrell being at
Of
&t
warldly
corpus
my Bofom,
Gude
meum
I
1
bad nae mair.
ebriofum,
I leif unto the
Toun of
Air,
U
7 8 tefiament of Mr. Andro Kennedie
In a Draff Midding
Vt
ibi fepelire
eir
ahd ay,
queam i
Quhair Drink and Draff may
Be
ilka
Day
cuften fuper faciem meatn.
VI.
my
I leif
Heart that neir was
fieker^
Sed femper variabile>
That evermair wad flow and
flicker
Conforti meo Jacobi
Thoch
wald bind
I
Verum Deum
But and
it
with a Wickerj
renui,
hecht to tume a Bicker,
I
Hoc pattum femper tenuu
VII.
Syne
leif I the beft
Quod
To my
Quis
I tald
eft
ille3
eft
my
Lord
wer
as
alii
than fchrew
my
I
bock.
propter cape
Kin-heidj but waite
Sed mille
We
Lathium
Aucht
I
nocht^
my
Skapc
:
Heid but hiddle,
hoc fcivenmf,
fib as Sive
and Riddle,
In una ftlva qua creverunh
VIII.
QUIA
Steftament of Mr.
Andro Kennedie. 79
VIII.
QUIA
mea
folatia,
They wer but
Cum omni
fraude
Leifings
and ane,
all
& falacia,
I
I leif the Maifter
To
William Gray
My
§}ui
of Sanct Anthane,
cm fine
gratia.
wenc,
ain deir Cufine, as I
nunquam
fabricat mendac'm,
But quhen the Holand-tree grows grerw.
IX.
My
fenzeing and
Relmquo
For
thats
my
falfe
Winning,
falfis fratribus,
Gods
conform to
Difparfis dedit pauperibus
For Mens Sauls they
•
fay
ain Biddings
;
and
fing,
Mentientes pro muneribus,
Now God
give
them an
Pro fuis pravis
operibus.
evil
Endings
X.
to
Jok the Fukj
my
Folly frie,
Lego pofi corpus fepultum,
jn Faith
I
am
Licet ojlendo
mair Fule than he,
bonum multum s
Of
So tfeftamentofMr. Andro Kennedie.
Of Gorn
And
and
Cattle,
Gold and
Fie,
habet valde multum^
Jpfe
he
zit
Eingendo
bleiris
eum
my
Lordis Ee,
fore fiultum,
XI.
To
Matter Johny Clerk fyne,
Bo
&
Gods
Nam
Wer
lego intime,
braid Malefon and
ipfe eft
I a
myne,
caufa mortis me&j
Dog, and he a Swyne,
Multi miraniur fuper me.
But
I fuld gar that
Lurdane quhrync,
Scribendo dent es fine
RESIDUUM
XII.
omnium bonorum
Refts to difpone
Cum
D.
my
Lord
fall
hai£
tutela puerorum,
Baith Edie, Katie, and
all
In Faith I will nae langer
the
laife
',
raife,
Pro fepultura ord'mo>
On
the
new
Nm ficwt
Gyfe, fee
more
God me
faife,
folitOi
XIII.
iM
tfefidment ofMr.
And ro Kennedie.
8
XIII.
IN
me& Jepukura,
die
I will haif nane but our ain Gang,
j
£t duos mfticos de
rure,
Bearand ane Barrell on a Stang,
Drinkand and playand Cap-out evin,
\
Sicut egomet folebam,
Singand and greitand with the
Potum meum cum
fletu
I will nae Priefts for
Dies
Nor
Stevifri
mifceham*
XIV.
me (hall
fing,
ilia dies ir& y
zit
nae Bells for
Shut femper
me
to ring,
mum
Ale-wifp ante me,
inftead of Torches for to bring,
Quatuor lagunas
cervifia,
Within the Grave to
In
To
modum
fley
De
-
:
y
cruris
fet fie
juxta
Thing
me 3
the Feynds, than hardly fing
terra plafmafii me.
H;
'
\
f
_•_.;
folet fieri,
But a Bag-pyp to play a Spring,
Et
T\
'..
\
^Difcration in
Asking.
i.
y~* F
every Asking follows nocht
^-^
Reward, but gif fum Caufe wer wrocht
And
And
quhair Caufe
quhair nane
is, it
is
Men
weil
may
fe,
will be thocht
In Asking fuld Difcration be*
II.
An& Fule,
thocht he haif Caufe or nane,
Cryis ay, Gife me, unto a Drene
And he
5
that dronis ay lyke an Bie,
Suld haif ane Hcirar dull
as'
Stane
y
In Asking fuld Difcration be*
III.
S tj u
Sum
askis
askis far lefs
Sum
And
mair than he defervs,
all
than he fervs,
fchames to ask, and braids of
without Reward he flerves
me5
5
In Asking fukl Difcration be»
IV.
To
Difetation in Asking*
83
IV.
To
To
gude Fame,
ask bot Service hurts
nanc
ask for Service
To
and
ferve
To Man and
fuld blame,
leif in Beggartiej
Maifter baith
is
Schamej
In Asking fuld Difcration be.
V.
He
May
that dois
all
fpill it all
And
his beft Servyis,
with Crakks and Cryis,
be foul Importunities
for feweft Words may ferve the wyis
$
VI.
NocHt
Nathing
neidfull
is
is
Men
gotin without
Nocht
it
be dum*
Words fum,
Diligence
fpeids bot
For nathing
fuld
alane will
We
fej
cum
In Asking fuld Difcration be»
VII.
Asking
wald haif convenient Place,
Convenient Tyme, Laifar and Space,
Bot Haift or Preis of
Bot Heart
abaift,
bot
grit
Tung
Menzie,
reckles
>
$
%
VIII.
Sum
Difcration in Giving,
84
VIII.
Sum
micht haif (ze) with
That hes
aft
Cure,
(nay) with grit Labour
All for, that
And
little
Tyme
not byde can he,
and Honour,
tyns baith Eirand
IX.
Suppose
the Servand be lang unquitj
The Lord iumcyme reward
will
it,
Gif he dois not quhat Remedies
To
fecht with Fortune
is
nae Witj
f;k
QQQgQC QQOQQQOQO QQQ %
difcration in Giving.
i.
r-r*
O
*•
fpcik
Sum
Sum
Gives
of Gifts or almous Deids,
gives for Merit,
warldlie
aft to
Honour
them
to
fum
up
for Meids,
hie,
that nathing neidsj
In giving fuld Difcration be.
.
II.
Sum
Giving.
Difcratiojz in
85
II.
Sum
Pryd and Glory
gives for
Sum
Grudging and with Pain,
gives with
Sum
Sum
vain,
gives in Prattick for Supplie,
gude again;
gives for twyis as
In Giving fuld Difcration he.
III.
Sum
Thank, fum Chcmic,
gives for
Sum Money
gives,
And fum
But Gifts
and fum
Words
give
fum can nae
frae
gives Mcit,
baith fair
Man
and
flics
trcir j
In Giving fuld Difcration be.
IV.
Sum
gives fo
That
all his
And
That
all
littil
Gifts ar not fet by,
Hude-pyk haldin
for a
the
wretchetly,
full
Warld
cryis
his he,
on him, Fy
J
V.
Sum
in in his
That
all
Giving
owre-laidin
is
Throw Vyce and
Thairof
his
Honour
In Giving
fae large,
is
his Bergc,
Prodigalities
dois difcharge
3
fuld Difcration be,
J
3
VI.
Sum
Liferat ion in Giving*
g6
VI.
Sum
to the rich
That micht
Man
gives his Geir,
his Gifts richt weil forbcir,
Zit thocht the pure for Fait fuld dies
His Cry nocht
enteris in his Eirj
VII.
Sum
gives to Strangeris with Face
That
zifterday frae Flanderis flew,
And
Wer
auld Servands
they neir of
lifts
lie grit
not
new^
fe,
Vertew >
Sum
Sum
gives to
And
them can
gives to
Sum
halds
VIII.
them can ask and plcnzie3
gives to
all
Men
fleich
and fenzie^
of Honeftie,
Jangelars at Difdenzic
IX.
Thair fum
gets Gifts and rich Arrayis,
To
that his Maifter fayis,
fweir
all
Thocht
Ar mony
fie
all
the contrair weil kens he»
now
in our Dayisj
X.
Sum
Difcration in faking*
%*f
x.
Sum
Sum
gives to
Sum
But in
Men
gude
gives
for thair
Trumpers and
fchaw
gives to
thair Office
his
gude Kcwis,
to Schrews,
Au&oritie;
gude foundin few
is %
XL
Sum
gives Parochines full
wyde,
Kirks of Saint Bernard and Saint Bryde?
To
teich, to rule,
To fum
richt skant
and to owrefie,
of Grace to gyde
j
Follows difcration in Taking,
i.
-*
-^
y Ow
after
But
Sum
And fum
Giving I fpeik of Taking,
littill
taks
of ony Gude forfaikingj
owrc fcrimp
Autoritie,
owre-mekle, and that
is
glaikingj
In Taking fuld Difcration be.
J
i
%
Tifjs
$8
Difcration in staking,
The
II.
Clerks tak Benifices with
Brawls,,
Sum of
Saint Peter,
fum of Saint Pauls,
Take he the Rents, nae Cair hes
Abeit the Deil tak
thair Sauls
all
he.,
5
III.
Barons
tak frae thair
All Fruit that
Tennants pure
grows upon the Feure,
In Mails and Gerfomes
And
them beg
gars
frae
raift
Dore
owre
to
hic^
Dores
Jn Taking fuld Difcration be.
And
IV.
fum
And on
Mens Takks^
the Pure Oppreffion maks,
And
Quhyle
tak uther
nevir
that the
mynds
that
he maun
die^
Gallows gar him rax;
V.
Sum
And
taks
be Sie and fum be Land,
nevir frae Taking hald thair
Till they be tyk
And
Hand„
up to a Trie 5
fyn they gar them underfland
VI.
Sum
Difcration in faking.
89
VI.
£um
wald tak
he of
Had
all
Man
As he hes Dreid
To
Nichbours Geir3
his
Feir,
as little
that
God
him
fe,
takthen fould he nevirforbeirj
In taking fuld Diferetion be.
VII.
Sum
And
wald
zet nocht
Throw
Warlds Brad,
tak all this
fatisfiet
thair
Neid,
Heart unfatiable and greidie.
Sum wald
and cannot fpeid;
taklittill,
In taking fuld Difcration be.
VIII.
Grit Men
Ar
fett full
for
Taking and Oppre[Tion a
famous
at the Seffion,
Qiihile pure Takkars are hangit hie,
Schamit for evir and thair Succefiion
$
In taking fuld Difcration be.
IX.
Sum
taks
the Makkaris ruifing kynd,
But a Rewaird dois nevir mynd.
Few
Pairts with Pelf for Poetry.,
That gars
my
poutch be
aft
ill
lynd;
The foregoing
three quod
Mr.W m
.
Dunbar.
On
***#¥*#*¥#####*£ %**Wil*******k
**** **************
On
M
H^w^
and cDeming.
*Detra£iion
I,
Using alane this hinder Nicht,
Of mirry Day, cjuhen gane was
Licht,
Within a Garth undir a Trie,
I hard ane
May
Voce
that faid
Man now
nae
on Hicht,
undemit be
II.
For
Zit
thocht I be an crownit King,
fall I
Sum
Sum
Sae
not efchew
calls
craifs
fall
I
me
of
Deming
>
gude, fum fays I
God
to
end
%
my
lie.
Ring,
not undemit be.
III.
Be
I a
Than
Lord, and not Lord lyke,
every Pelour and Purfe-pyke,
Says,
Land wer
better
Thocht he dow nocht
Zit can he not let
1
waird on me,
to leid a
Deming
Tyke,
be.
IV. Bj?
Detraction and Deming*
On
9%
IV.
Lady
I a
J£e
frefch
and
fair,
jwith Gentlemen makand
'I
Then
That
am japit
I
Thus
Be
I
fall I
late
and
and he.
air.
not undemit be.
V.
an Courtman or a Knycht,
poneftly cled that
Ane
But
repair,
will they fay baitfrfcho
prydfull
God
fets
Man
fyne
fend them a
That cannot
me
richt,
they
call
Widdy
Deming
let fie
me
i
wicht,
be.
VI.
Be
I
but
They
call
And be
little
me
of Stature,
Cative, Droich Creature,
I large
of Quantity,
They call me monfterous of Nature 5
Thus can they not
let
Deming
be.
VII.
And
be
I ornat in
Then Towfy
fayis I
my Speichj
am
fae flreich,
I fpeik not lyke thair
Suppofe her
Mouth
Houfe Mcnzie^'
mifters a Leich,
Zit can fcho not let
Deming
be.
.VIII.
Buj
On
92
Detraction or Denting.
VIII.
But wirt thir Folk that uther
How that their Saws to uthers
deims,
feims,
Thair vicious Words and Vainity,
Thair
Tungs
trattling
Tharis fum wald
that
all
furth teims>
Deming
let thair
be.
IX.
Gude James
Quhen
that
the Ferd our nobill King,
he was of Zeirs zing,
In Sentence
Do
well
For
faid full fubtilie.
and fet nocht by
?zae
Man fall
Demiw3
undemit
be.
X.
And
Keip
fae I fall
his
with
Command
Befickand ay the
In Hevin that
For
I
thair fall
God
his Grace,
into that Cafe,
Tr i n
may
i
t y,
haif a Place,
no Man demit
ftnod Mr.
be.
W.Dunbar,
n
Sons exylt by Tryde.
I.
SOns
hes bene ay cxylit far out of Sicht,
Sen
ilka
Welfare and
Knaif was cled in
Wekh
ar
gane without gude Nicht,
And in thair Rowms
Pryd
And
is
leird
amang
Goun,
filken
remains dull Derth and Neid,
us enterit, bot
our Lords to gang
With filken Gouns 3 and
God
now
Cellars
lefs
fpeid 3
and mair,
tume and
bair.
II.
Now
In
a fmall Barons rich Abulzement^
filkin
Micht
Furrings, Chenzies and
Weil bodin
It
wer
'That
And
full
all this
fie
Geir,
Fourty into Jack and Splent,
furnifs
at his
Back with
meit gif
Pryd of
it
Silk
Bow
and Speir
happens be Weir,
wer quyt
laid
doun.
changit in Jack Knapska and Abergown,
HI.
Walq
94
Wal d
And
I
And
tions exylt hy
Pryde
III;
all
the Lords lay up thair rich Arrays,
gar unfulziet keip them dene and
fair.
weir them but on hie triumphand Days,
And quhen
Strangers do in this
They
not buy
neidit
Silk
Realme
repair,
Rayments mair,
This Twenty Zeir for them, and
thair Succeilion,
j
Gif finfull Pryde nocht
blindit thair Difcretion.
IV.
Thair Men
alfo
maun be
bot
Smyt or Smot,
Frae his Caproufy be with Ribbons
laift,
With Velvet Bord about histhrcid-bareCoiti
On Woman
Wayis weil
His Hat on Syde
fet
tyit
about his Waifr,
up for ony Haift,
For Hichtines the Culroun dois misken,
His awin Maifter
as weil as uther
Men*
V.
Quha finns
in Pryd, does
firft
to
God
Grivance,
Qiiha out of Hevin to Hell gaif it a Falls
Syne of himfelf weftis
Sae lerge, that
it
faft his
Subftance,
owrepafles his Rentall,
His Tennants pure he dois opprefs with
His
coiftly
Gown,
all 5
with Tail fae wyde out fpred,
His nakit Farmours gars hungry gae to Bed.
Quod Gl ERK.
Satyrs
9$
S ATT RE
on Covetoufnefi.
L
fjREifioM, Honour and
Nobillnefs,
Mcid Manheidy Mirth and
Ar
now
And
all
:
GcntUlnefcj'
in Court repute as Vycc,
for Caufe of Covetycc.
IL
All Weilfaje,Welth and Wantonefs,
Ar changit into Wretchetnefs,
And Play
And
all
is
fct at little
for Caufe of
Pryce>
Covetycc
III.
iHalking, Hunting and fwift Horfe riningj?
Ar changit
ffhair
And
is
all
all
in
wranous winning,
nae Play but Cards and £>yce,
for Caufe of Covetyee.
V.HEAfc
Saty re on Covetyce,
9 (5
IV.
Heart? Houfe-halding is all laid doun,
A Laird has with him but a Loun,
That
And
leids.
all
him
after his
Devyce,
for Caufe of Covetyce.
V.
In Burghs
to
Landwart and
Quhair Plefour Was and
Venifon Wyld-foul
Wyn 5
Ar now decayd throw
to' Sle3
grit Plentie,
and Spyce,'
Covetyce.
VI.
Husbands
Cattle
that Grangis
and Corn
Hes now nae
And
all
to
fell
had
full greit,
and or*
Beifts but Cats
and Mycc,
throw Caufe of Covetyce.
VII.
Honest Zcmen in
Quha wont
every Touri,
to weir baith
Red and Broun,
Ar now
arrayt in
And
throw Caufe of Covetyce.
all
Raggs with Lyce.
And
Saty re on Covetyce.
gj
i
Villi
_
And
Lairds in Silks harle to the Dcil,
Summer
For quhilk thair Tennants fald
And
lives
And all
Meilj
on Ruits under the Ryfi*
for Caufe
of Coyetyce.
X.
Qu h a that dois
And
lives in
Pecc and Cheritie,
Is haldin a Fulc,
And
all,
Deids of Pietie,
and that
Nyce,
full
O'c
X*
And
quha can reive uther
And upon
pure
Men
Is thocht an active
And
all,
MensRowms,
gadder
Man
Sowms,
and Wyfe,
&c.
XI.
Man,
And
pleis
value nocht this
Work for
For
thy Maker, and be merry,
Warld a Cherry 5
a Place in Paradyce,
thairin rings nae Covctycc.
qjh
1
H
E
98
The
Cherrie
Cowpylt into
and the Slae,
Meeter by Capa'm Alexander
Scottis
Montgomery.
I.
A Bout
-*•*•
an Bank with Balmy Bewis,
Quhair Nychtingales thair„Notis rencwis
With
gallant Goldfpinks
gay 5
The
Mayis, Merle, and Progne proud,
The
Lintquhyt, Lark and Lavrock loud,
Salutit mirthful
Quhen
Philomel had fweitly fung,
To Progne
How
May,
fcho deplord,
Terms cut out hir Tung,
And
falfly
her deflourdj
Quhilk Story fo
To
To
I
fchaw
forie
hir felf fcho feimt,
heir hir fo neir hir,
doutit if I dreimt.
II.
The
This Edition is taken from two curious old ones, the firft
printed by Robert Walgrave, the King's Printer, in 1597, according to a Copy corre&ed by the Author himfelf, the
other by Ândro Hart, punted 1615, faid on the Title Page
to be newly altered, perfyted, and divided into 114 Quasuorzeims, not long before the Author's Death.
Chenie and the
*tbt
£lae>
99
IL
The
Cufhat crouds, the Corbie crys,
The CoukoW
To
couks, the prattling Pyes,
geek hir they begin
the jangling Jayes,
The Jargoun or
The
craiking
Craws, and keekling Kays,
They
The
painted
with thair
pawn with Argos
Can on
The Turtle
me
deavt
wails
Mayock
his
on
And Eccho
Dim
Eyis,
call 5
witherit Tries,
anfwers
all,
>Rcpeting with Greiting,
How
By
fair
lying
Narclffm
fell^
and fpying
His Schadow in the Well.
III.
t'
few the Hurcheon and the Hare
In Hidlings hirpling heir and
To mak
thair
thair,
Morning mange.
The Con, the Cuning and the Cat,
Qiihais dainty
With
Downs with Dew were
ftif
wafc
Muftachis ftrange.
m
z
The
ioo
fbe Cberrie and
The
Hart, the
The
Beardit
Hynd
The Fulmart and
birfly Bairs
Sum
fciding,
The Hunters
The
falfe
and Brocks 5
fum dreiding
fubtile Snairs,
With
skipping and tripping,
They
playit
Air was (obir,
mifty Vapours,
them
all
IV.
faft and
in Pairs.
Iweit,
Wind nor Weits
But quyit, calm and
To
Fox 5
Buck clam up the Brae^
With
Nae
the Slae,
the Dae, the Rae,
clear,
fofter Floras fragrant Flowris*
Quhairon Apollos Pararnouris,
Had
The
trinklit
mony
a Teirs
quhilk lyke Silver Schaikers shynd,
Embroydering Bewties Bed,
Quhairwith
In
their
May is
Sum
Of
Heavy Heids declynd,
Collouris cled,
knoping, fum droping,
balmy Liquour
fweit,
Excelling and fmelling,
Throw Phebus
hailfum Heit.
V.M]
Sie Cherrie and
the Slae.
V.
Methocht
Quhair
Dew
lyke
Owre
To
ftudy
an heavenlie heartfum Thing,
Diamonds did hing,
twinkling
all
the Treis,
on the Flu rift Twifts,
Admiring Natures Alchymifts,
Laborious buffie Bies,
Quhairof fum
To
And fum
Honie
fweiteft
focht,
flay thair Lyves frae Sterve,
the waxie Vefchells wrocht,
Thair Purchafe to preferve
*
So heiping,
It in thair
Precifely
5
for keiping
Hyves they hyd$,
and wyfely,
For Winter they provyde.
vr.
To
pen the Pleafures of that Park,
How every Bloflom
Branch and Bark,
Againft the Sun did fhyne,
I pafs to Poetis to
In hich heroick
compyle,
ftaitlie Style,
Quhais Mufe furmatches myne.
&S2U5
ioi
£&
102
But
I
Outowre
Cherrie and the Side,
myne
as I lukit
alane,
faw a River
a fteipie
Syne
rin
Rock of
lichtic in a
Stane,
Lin,
With tumbling and rumbling
Amang
the Roches round,
Devalling and falling,
Into a Pit profound.
VII.
Throw
rowting of the River rang,
The Roches
founding lyke a Sang,
Quhair Das Kane did abound j
With
Triple, Tenor, Counter, Mein,
And Ecchoe blew
a Bafe betwene,
In Diapafon Sound,
Set with the C-fol-fa.-utb Cleif,
With Lang and Large
With Quaver, Crotchet,
And
not an
at
lift 5
Semibreif,
Minum
mifr,
Compleitly mair fweitly
Scho fridound
Nor Mufes
To
flat
and fchairp,
thatufes
pin Apllos Harp.
yill.
QlIHA
*fhe Cherrie
and the
Slae.
103
VIII.
Quha
wald haif tyre to heir
that
Tune,
Quhilk Birds corroborate ay abune,
With Lays ofluvefum
Quhilk
dim
Larks,
fae high in Chryftal Skys,
Quhyle Cupid walkens with the Crys,
Of Natures Chappel
Quha leving
Lo how
Clerks,
the Heyins abuve,
all
Allichted
on the Eird.
that
Lord of Luve,
little
Before
me
thair appeird,
Sae myld lyke and Chyld
lyW
With Bow three Quarters fcant.
Syne moylie and coylie3
He lukit
lyke ane Sant,
IX.
Ane
cleinly Crifp
hang owrchisEyis,
His Quaver by his nakit Thyis
Hang
in an Silver Lace 5
Of Gold betwixt his Schoulders grew,
Twa pretty Wings quhairwith he flew,
Oh his left Arm ane Brace.
<&4
W$
$he Cherrie and
104
This
God
fone
Uj>on the
I ran
the She..
hisGcir he fchuke,
aflf
graffie
Grund
5
als lichtly for to luke,
Qiihair Ferlies micht be fund:
Amafit
To
I gafit
Geir fae gay,
fee his
Perfaifing
myne Haveing,
He
me
countit
his
Prey.
X.
His Zouth and
Stature
Of Doublenefs
had nae Poubt,
I
made me
But bourdcd with
Quod
I,
How call they
Cuf>ido 3 Sir,
quod
For
I can fervc
my
Boy:
my
Chyld,
he, and fmyld,
you
Pleafe
thee
flout,
me
you
in
to imployj
your
Suite,
If you pleafe to impyre,
With Wings
to
r]ie,
Or Hamis
Mak
Or
and Schafts to fchute
to fet
on Fyre.
Choice then of thofe then,
of a thoufand Things,
But crave them and have them,
With
that I
wewd
his
Wings,
XL Qjjha
and the Ske.
tfhe Cberrje
1,05
XI.
Qu hat
To
wald thou gif
haif thir
To
0r quhat
to
flie,
fport thy Sprit a quhyle
;
gif \ fuld lend the Heir,
Jhat Geir, quod
Zit
I
and Schuting Geir,
Schafts
Sum pody
gif,
Freind, quod he,
wanton Wings
Bow, Quaver,
puhat
my
to begyle:
cannot be bocht,
J,
wald haif
quod
he,
it
fain;
coft thee nocht,
it
But rendering
all
again
:
His Wings then he brings then,
And band them on my
Go
flie
And
now, quod
fae
my
Leif
he,
Back,
now,
I tak.
XII,
I fprang up with Cupdces Wings,
Quha Bow and
To
Schuting Geir refigns,
lend
me
for a
Day:
-As Icarus with borrowit Flicht,
I mountit hichar nor I micht,
Gwre
perrelous ane Plays
Then
jo6
Then
£he Cher He and
drew
furth I
the S/ae.
that double Dart
fumtyme fchot
Qtihilk
my
Quhairwith I hurt
Mother,
his
wanton
Hairt,
In Hope to hurt ane uther:
It h«rt
me
Qyhyle
either
Cum
now
The
As
fe
or burnt me,
End
in
Butter-flie
fcho delyts into
and Candill,
xiir.
the Low,
Sac was I browdin of
my Bow,
Als ignorant as fcho
And
as fcho flies
I handill;
me now
>
quhyl fcho be
fyrt,
Sua with the Dart that I defyrt,
My
As
fulifh
Hand
has hurt
me
to
j
Phaeton be Sute
His Fathers Cart obtain d,
Sa langt
Bow
I in Lufis
to fchute,
Not marking quhat
Mair
To
it
meindj
wilfull than skilful!,
flie
I
was
fae fond,
Dcfyring, afpyringj
And
fae
was fene upond.
XIV.
Too
and
Sfbe Cberrie
the Slae.
107
XIV.
Too
knew quha he wis
I
late
The Spail
fall fall
Too
Too
late
Too
late
late to
late
went to Schuil*,
I heard the
Swallow preieh,
Sehuil-maifter
of Fuils,
fynd the Neft I
Quhen
Too
into his Eie,
late I
Experience dois teich,
The
Too
to Hie,
all
feik,
the Birds ar flowin;
the Stabil-dore I fteik,
Quhen
Too
AH
all
the Steids ar flowing
late
foliOi
Behind
ay thair State ay,
Folk efpy,
fae,
they find fae
Remeid, and
fae
do
I.
XV.
Gif
I
had ryplie bene advyft,
I had not rafchly enterpryft,
To
Nor
To
zit
foir
with borrowit Penns
$
had feyd the Archer-craft,
fchute
As
my
fell
with
fik a
Schaft,
Pveafon quyte miskenns:
Frae
xoS
tfhe Qherrie
Frae Wilfullnefs gaif
I
and the
had nac Force to
Then came
flie,
grainand to the Ground,
I
Freind,
Wclcum hzmc, quod
Quhair flew ze?
Or quha
I fe
Ze
Sla*,
mc my WouHd,
Quhomc
hame
brings
he;
flew ze
the Buiting
>
}
now, quod he} now,
haif bene at the Schuting.
XVI.
As
Sa
Skorne cums commonlie with Skaith,
byde them baith,
I behuift to
my
Sae ftakkering was
That undir Cure
Quhilk
Agony was
I
But or
Stait!
Chek,
ftail
or mait
fwck and fwound
He
fpulzied
With
;
fae extreme,
walkynt of
I
fik
micht nocht remuif noV nek,
I
But eythcr
My
gat
I
for Feir,
my Dreme,
me
of
Flicht then
my
Geir$
on Hicht then
Sprang Cupid in the Skyis,
Forzetting and fetting
At nocht
my
cairfull Cryfs.
XVII. Sae
ftbe Cherrie
and the
Slaei
io„
XVII.
|Jae
lang with Sicht I folio wit him,
ûhyle baith
my
With
dazelit Eyis
on the
ftairing
ûhilk flew fae thick befoir
iJum
grew
dini
Starnsj
my
Ein,
reid, fum zellow, blew, fum grene,
Quhilk
trublit all
my
Harns,
that every Thing apperit twae
To my
3ut lang
barbulzeit Brain,
micht I ly luiking
Or
fae,
Cupid came again 5
Quhais Thundering, with Wondering,
I hard
up throw the Air,
Throw
Cluds fo he thuds fo^
And
Thin
Knd
frae I
I in
XVIII.
God was
faw
that
Langour
And
lumtyme
flew I wift not quhair.
fair
I ficht,
gane3
left allane,
tormentit to^
quhyl I was fad,
iumtyme I mufit and
maift"
gane mad,
I wift not quhat to doj
Sumtymc
no
the Cherrig and the
Sumtyme
I ravit, half in a Rage,
As ane
To
Slag,
into Difpair,
be oppreft with
fie
a Page,
Lord gif my Heart was
fair 3
Lyke Dido, Cupdo,
I widdill and I warie,
Quha
In
fie
reft
me and
me
left
a Feirie-farie.
XIX.
Then
Inflame
But
Curage and Defy re
felt I
my
Heart with uncouth Fyre,
To me befoir unknawn
now nae Blude in me remains
Unbrunt and boyld within
By Luve
To
quench
it
With
his Bellies
my
Vaines,
blawinj
or I was devorir,
Sichs I
went about,
But ay the mair I fchupe to imorit,
The
baulder
Ay
it
brak out
j
preifing bot ceifing,
Quhyl
it
My Hew
micht breik the Bounds,
fo furth
fchew fo
The Dolour of my Wounds.
XX. With
and the Slae,
*the Cherrie
11x
XX.
With
deidly Vifage, pail
iMair lyke
and wan*
Aqatomy than Man,
I widdert ckin aWay,
As
My
Wax
befoir the Fyre, I felt
And
My
my Bofom
Heart within
melt*
Peice and Peice decay,
Veines with brangling lyk to brek,
My
Punfis lap with Pith,
Sae Fervency did
me
infek,
That I was vext thairwith
My
Heart ay did
The
ftart
fyiie Flamis to
ay,
flic,
Ay
howping, throw lowping,
To
leap at Libertie.
XXI.
But,
My
O
alacel
cairfull
it
was
In Prefoun of
With
abufit,
Corps keipt
it
my
incluift,
Breifts
Sichs fae fowpit and owre-fet,
Lyk
to ane Fifch faft in the
Net
In Dcid thraw undeceift.
Quta
H2,
ttbe Cher irie
Quha
and the She.
thochc in vain fcho fhyvc by Strcnth
For to
Quhilk
pull out hir Held,
profits naething at the length,
But haiftning to hir Deidj
With
The
wrifting and thiifting,
fatter
ftill
is
fcho,
Thair I fo did ly fo,
My
Death advancing
to.
XXII.
Th£
The
mair I wrcftlit with the Wind,
fafter
ftill
my
Nae Mirth
Mair Noy, nor
I was fae
altert
felt"
I find,
my Mynd
micht meifcj
had nevir nane,
I,
and owre-gane,
Throw Drowth of my
Difeife
Zit weakly as I micht, I raife,
My
Sicht
grew dim and darl£
I ftakkcrit at the Windill-ftraes,
Nae Takin
I
was
ftark
;
Baith fichtles and michtles
I
grew
&
allmaift at ains,
"1
In Angwifche I langwifche,^
With mony
grievous Grains.
XXIII.
With
Sthe Cherri'e
and
tie SJae.
1 1
g
XXIII.
With
fober Pace I did approchc
Hard to the River and the Roche,
-
Quhairof I fpak befoirj
The River
As
The
Then
Murmur
a
fie
to the Sea
it
maid,
faftly (laid,
Craig hich, flay and fchoir
Pleafure did
me
fae
:
provok
Thair partly to repair,
1
Betwixt the River and the Rock,
Quhair Houp grew with Bifpalre%
A
Trie than I
fie
Of Cherries
Belaw
Ane
to I
than
on the
Bufs of bitter
j
Cherries hang abune
Heid,
Lyke twynkland Rubies round and
Sae hich up in the
.
.
-j
Slaes*
XXIV.
my
The
Braes,
faw to
,
.
,
reid,
Hewch,
Quhais Schaddowis in the River fchew,
Als graithly glancing as they
On
.
,
grew
trimbling Twiftis, and tewch,
ft
Q&hUk
i
ftbe
14
Qhenie and the Mae.
Quhilk bowed throw burding of thair Birth,
Declyning doun thair Toppis,
Phdws
Reflex of
New
the Firth,
aff
colourit
all
thair
With danfing and
Knoppisj
glanfing,
In Tyrles dornik champ,
Quhilk Jitreimaned and leimed
Throw
Lichtncfs of that
Lamp.
XXV.
With
The
earneft Eic, quhyl I cfpy
Fruit betwixt
me
and the Sky,
Half-gaite almaift to
The
Hcvinj
Craig fae cumberfum to clim,
The Trie
fae tall
of Growth, and trim,
As ony Arrow evin:
I calld to
mynd how Daphne
did
Within the Laurell fchrink5
Quhen from
A
Appollo fcho hir hid
thoufand
Tymes
That Trie
As he
I think
thair to
me
5
thair,
his Laurell thocht,
Afpyring, bot tyring,
To
get that Fruit I focht
XXVI.
To
and the
fthe Cherrie
Slae.
115
XXVI.
To
dim
the Craig
was nae
it
Buit,
Let be to preifs to pull the Fruit
Top of
In
Way
I faw nac
Be ony
all
the Trief
Craft to get
clum,
it
Appeirandlie to
The Craig was
me
:
;
and dreich,
ugly, flay
The Trie
I
cum 3
quhairby to
lang, found
and fmall 3
affrayd to clim fa hich,
was
For
Fcir to fetch a Fall
Affrayit to fey
I
luikit
$
it,
up on
loft,
Quhyls minting, quhyls Hinting,
My
Purpofe changit
oft.
XXVII.
Then
Dreld, with Bangtr and Difpair,
Forbad
my
To
minting onie mair
rax abune
my
Reiche;
Quhat, Tufchc, quod Curage,
He
is
but
daft, that
And
Man go
to,
has to do,
fpairs foe every Speichc;
For
i*be Cherrie
ii6
For
I haif aft hard fuith
And we may
and the Side.
Men fay.
fee ourfelis^
That Fortune helps the hardy ay,
And
2
Pultrones plain repclls;
Then
feir
nocht nor heir nocht^
Dreid, Danger or Difpairs
To
Fazarts hard Hazarts
Is deid or they cum' th'air.
XXVIII.
Qojha
Quha
fpeids, but fie as heich afpyris,
triumphs nocht, ibut
To win
Of
a nobill
as
I put the Cais
Schame
Fame
thou nocht
Sac thou with
fucceids-,
:
prevailcf,
Honour
die;
Lyfe, but not thy Courage,
Sail
:
thou wald haif thy Deids
In Regifter of
Thy
tryes
Name 5
fchrinking, quhat but
Then do
fie as
failcfc
*
Poets pen of thee:
Thy Name
Sail nevir
Thy
than from
be cut
Graif ay
That honeil
fall
Fame than
aff,
haif ay
Epitaff.
XXIX.
Quha n
Zie Cherrie and the
Slae.
11
XXIX.
Quhat
can thou
Renown
loflc,
quhcn Honour
lives?
(thy Vertcw) ay revives,
Gif valiauntlie thou end:
Quod
Banger, Huly, Freind, tak heid,
Untymous Spurring
Tak
the Steidj
fpills
tent quhat ze pretend:
Thocht Courage
counfell thee to
Beware thou kep nae
dim,
- ;;
Skaith,
Haif thou nac Help but Hope and him,
They may bcgylc
Thyfejl
The
tell
now
Counfell of thae Clerks,
Quhair throw
Thy
thee baith
now may
zit I
trow
Breift dois beir the
zit
Marks,
XXX.
Brunt
Sa
I
Bairn with Fyre the Danger dread*,
belief thy
Sen
Bofomc
laft
that Fyre thou felt:
Befyds that, feindle
That
bleids,
Tymes thou
*
r
feis
evir Courage kcips the Keis
Of Knawledge
at his
I
$
Belt^
Tucht
&he Cherrie and
113
the Slae.
Thochc he bid fordwart with
Guns,
his
Powder he provyds,
Small
Be not ane Novice of
that
Nunnes,
That faw nocht baith the Syds
5
ay almaift ay,
Fule-haift
Owre-fails the Sicht of fum,
Quha
huiks not, nor luiks not
Quhat
eftirward
may cum.
XXXI.
Zit Wifdom
wifches thec to
wey
This Figure in Philofophy,
A
Qiihilk
And
is
LeflToun
in
Tyme
not quhen
leir,
for to tak tent.
Tyme
And buy
Is thair
worth to
paft, repent,
is
Repentance deir
nae Honour
eftir
Except thou
5
Lyfe,
$
flay thyfell,
Quhairfbir has Atropos that Knyfe?
I
trow thou cannot
Quha
bot
it
tell:
wald cut
Quhilk Clot ho
*j
it,
skairs has fpun,
Diftroying thy Joying
Befoir
it
be begun.
XXXII. All
ghe Cherrze and
the Slae,
119
XXX'II.
All
Owrcs
ar repute to be Vyce,
owre law, owre
owrc nyce^
rafch,
Owrc
hich,
Thou
feims unconftant, be thy Signs,
Owre
Thy Thocht
het or zit
is
on
owrc
cauld;
a thoufand Things,
Thou wats not quhat thou wald$
Let
Fame
hir Picic
Quhen
all
on the poure,
thy Banes ar brokin,
Zone Slae, fuppofe thou
May
fatisfie
think
it
fourc,
to flokkin
Thy Drouth now, of Zouth noWj
Quhilk dryes thee with Defyre,
Aflwage than thy Rage, Man,
foul Watter quenches Fyrc*
xxxin.
Quhat
Fule art thou to die of Thrift,
And now may quench
it,
gif thou
Sac cafylie bot Pain
Mair Honour
Than
feicht
is
lift.
y
to vanquifch ane
with tenfum and be tane,
And owther
hurt «r
*
4
{lain:
The
126
The
And
•And
Cherrieand the Slae.
<£he
Prattick
ajs
to bring to pas,
is
not to enterpryfc/
3
gude drinking out of Glas
As Gold
in
ony Ways 5
'-'•}
I Ievir haif cvir
A
Foul in hand or tway,
Nor
fieand ten flieand
About me
all
the Day.
XXXIV.
Luke
And
quhair thou licht befoir thou lowp
5
flip
na Certainty for
Quha gyds
Quod
Courage,
To
with Schame,
lit
I lyke
Qihat
thee but begefs.
Cowards
them
Howp,
tak nae
be fure3
fae they
all
Plefure purchefl
the lefss
is
bot Pain,
Or Honour win with
He
will not ly quhair
That
For
Cure
he
is
Eife,
flain.
douttis befoir he 'dies:
Feir then I heir then^
But only ane Remeid,
Quhilk
latt is,
For to cut
aft
and
that
is
the Hei'd.
XXXV. Qukat
and the
tfhe Cberrie
121
Side.
XXXV,
Quhat
is
Quhat
the
is
Way
the
Way
Hurt?
to heil thy
to flay thy Sturt
Quhat meins may mak
Quhat
Suppofe
Comfort
the
is
J
the Cherrk
5
thrifts.
Slae can be nae Buk>
Helth
alfo thy
it
it is
only thou but
it
The
In
$
thar thou craivs?
thir Sophifts thee defaivs
Thou knaws
Sen for
?
thee merrie
And
confifts,
in nae uther Fruit;
Quhy
And
quaiks
Advyfe
On
now, and
fchaiks thou 3
ftudys at our Stryfe,
thee,
nae
lefs
it
lyes thee,
than thyL)fe.
XXXVI.
Gif
any Patient wald be panft,
Quhy
Or
For
I
lowp quhen he
fuld he
fchrink
quhen he
j
is!,lanft f
is
fchorn
'
3
haif hard Chirurgians fay,
Aftymes dcfferring of a Day,
Micht not be mend the Morn.
'
"
'
Tak
3%e Cheme and the Ma*.
xzt
Tak Tyme
in
Quhat
Time, orTyme be
Tymc
For
tint 5
will not remain:
forces Fyre out
of"
the Flint,
£utals hard match again.
Delay not, and fray not,
And
thou
fall fie it
fee,
Sic gets ay that fetts ay,
!
Stout Stomaks to the Brae.
XXXVII.
Thocht
The End
all
is
Beginnings bemaift hard,
pleland afterward
Then
j
fchrink not for a
Schowrej
Frae anes that thou thy Greining get,
Thy
Pain and Travel
The Sweit
Gae
is
forget,
exceids theSourej
to then quicklie, feir not thir,
For
Howp gude Hap
Quod Danger
be not fudden,
hes hecht.
Sir,
The Matter is of Wecht$
Firft fpy baith,
and try baith,
Advyfement does nane
I fay then, ye
Be
u
willfull
may
111,
then,
quhen ze
will,
XXXVIII. But
tfbeCherrie andtheSlae*
123
XXXVIII.
Mynd
to
the Proverb
iBut
zic
Quha
ufes Perrils perijh
call,
[dl>
Schort quhyle thair Lyfe them
And I
haif hard, quod,
Howp,
that
laftst
he
Sail nevir fchaip to fail the Se,
That for
How mony
all Perrills cafts.
throw Difpair are Deid,
Perrills preivt ?
That nevir
How mony alfo, gif
pf Ly ves
Quha
thou reid,
have
we
relcivt I
being evin dieing,
Bot Danger, but difpairdj
A Hunder, I
wonder,
But thou haft hard declaird.
XXXIX.
Gif we twa
Quhilk
is
hald not up thy Heart,
the Cheif and nobleft Part,
Thy Wark wald
not gang weil,
Confidering thac Companions can
Difwade a
filly,
To
fimple Man,.
hafard for his Heil,
7
f
Sup-.
0e
124
Cherrie and the She*
Suppofe they haif defavit fum,
Or
They
they and
we
micht mcit;
get nae Credence quhair
With ony Man of
By Rgafoun
Be
us
we
cum<,
Spreit,
thair Treafourj
efpyt,
is firft
Reveiling thair Deiling,
Quhilk
dow
not be denyt.
XL.
With
As
all
fleikit
Sophifms feiming fweit,
Doings war
thair
They
difcreit,
wifli thee to
be wyfe,
ôrtponing
Tyme
But Faith
in
underneath the Flowr,
The
lurking Serpent lyes;
Suppofe thou
Till
feis
frac
Hour
to
Hour,
her not a Styme,
that fcho flings thy Fute
Perfaivs thou nocht quhat precious
Thy
Allace
Man!
In lingring
~
J'
Tyme,
flewthing does owrefchute.
I
thy Cafe
Man,
lament,
Go to now and do now,
That Courage be content.
XLI. QpHAT
and the
*£he Cherrie
125
Slae.
XL I.
Quh a t
And
gif Melancholy
cum
in,
get anc Grip or thou begin,'
Than
is
thy Labour loftj
tor he will hald thee hard and
Till
Tyme
fafr,
and Place and Fruit be
And
Than
?
pail,
\
thou give up the Ghoft
be graivd upon the Stane,
fall
Quhilk on thy Graif
Sumtyme
is laidy
1
thair lived fie a ane;
But
how
Here
fall
lyes
it
be
faid
?
now, but pryfe now
Into Dishonours Bed,
An Gowart
.
That from
as
his
thou
art,
Fortune
fled,
XLII.
i
m a G y n e Man,
gif thou
wer
in Graif, and fyne micht heir
Wald thou not
Yes, Faith
I
laid
this faid,
fweit for
Schame ?
doubt nocht but thou wald:
Therefoir gif thou has Ene behald,
How
they wald fmoir thy Fame.
Gae
S&
126
Gae
to
Cherrie and the Stae.
and mak nae mair Excufc, 1
Or Lyfe and Honour
And
Iofe,
outher them or us refufe,
There is nae uther Chofe,
Confider togidder,
That we cannevir dwell,
At length ay by Strenth ay
Thae Pultrones we
expell.
XLIII.
Quod
Danger, Sen I underftand,
That Counfell can be nae Command,
I have nae mair to fay,
Except gif that he thocht
Tak
goodj
Counfell zit or ze conclude
Of wyfer Men
They
it
are but racklefs,
nor they.
zung and
Suppofe they think us
Gif of our Fellowfchip zou
Gang with them
God
'
rafche,
fleidj
fafche,
hardly beit.
fpeid zou, they leid zou,
That has not meikle Wit,
Expell us, zeil
Heirafttr
tell
us^
comes not
i
zit,
£LIV. Quhyle
He
Chertie and the Stmt
127
XLIV.
Quhyis
Banger and Difpair
Experience
came
Quhat
in
and
retyrt a
fpeirt
the Matter meindj
all
With him came Reafon, Wit and
And
they began
Skill,
to fpeir at Will,
I
Quhair mak ze to
To
my
Freind?
pluck zone lufty Cherrie loe,
Quod
Quod
he, and quyte the Slac:
they, Is there nae mair ado,
Or ze win up
But to
it,
the Brae
and do
?
it,
Perforce the Fruit to pluck,
Weil, Brother, fum uther
Were
better to conduct.
XLV.
We
But
grant ze
zit the
may be gude aneuchj
Hazard of zon Heuch,
Requyrisane graver Gyde$
As wyfe
as
ze are
may
gae wrangj
Thairfore tak Gounfail or ze-
Of fum
gang
that ftand befyde.
But
2ie Cher He and the Slae.
128
But quha war zon three ze forbad
Zour Company
Quod Wil^
now;
richt
three Prechours to perfwad
The poyfond
They
A
Slae to
trattlit
lang half
Foul
fall
and
pow.
prattellit,
Hour and mair;
them, they-
call
them
Dreidy Danger and DifpaiK
XLVL.
They
Zon
are mair fafchious nor of Feck,
Fazards durft not for thair
Neck
Clim up the Craig with us}
Frae
Or
we
clfc
they
determinit to die,
to clim
zon Cherrie Trie,
They
baid about the Bufs.
-
are conditiohd lyk the Eat]
They wald not weir
thair Feit,
But zitgif ony Fifch zc gat,
They wald be
fain to eit.
Thocht they now,
To
now,
hazard haif nae Heart,
Zit luck
the
I fay
we and
Fruit they
pluck we,
wald haif part.
XL VII. But
5the Cher ne
and the
Side.
129
XLVII.
B*t
frae
wc
They
fall
not than a Cherrie cun,
get our
Voyage wuji,
5
That wald not enterpryfe,
Weil, quod Experience, ze boiftj
But he
that counts without his Oifl,
Ze
the Beirs Skin
He
fell
aftentymes counts twyfe.
on
his Back,
But byde quhyle ze
Quhen
it
get 5
5
ze have done, itsTymeto crack
Ze
befoir the Net.
fifli
Quhat
haift, Sir, zetaift,Sir,
The .Cherry or ze pou
Bewar
Mair
zit,
ze ar
talkative
if,
zit
nor trowit.
XL VI II.
Ca'l L Danger back again, quod
To
fe
We
We
fee
him fchod
fae flrait
may nocht trow quhat
Quod
Skill,
quhat he can fay to Will,
Courage
He
We
fervis
concludit
ilk
ane
:
tells 5
ells,
not for our Majts
3
F.r
Chenle and the Sites
*th&
1
For
I
can
zou
tell
all
perqueir
His Counfail or he cum:
Quod
cum
Will quhairto foud he
He cannot
He
fpeiks ay,
Delay of
He
and
Tyme
heir^
himdum j
hald his
feiks
ay
be Drifts$
grievous, and deivs us,
With
and 5chift&
Sophiftrics
XLIX.
Quod
Reafoun9 quhy was he debaxd
The Tale
Zet
let
Then banger
How
may not be
is ill
us heir
him
?
hard*
anis.
to dedair began^
Hope and Courage took the Man,
To
leid
him
all
thair lainsj
For they wald haif him up the
\
Hill,
Bot owther Stap or Stay
And quha was Welcomer than
He
Witt,
wald be formoft ay 5
He
could do 3 and fould do,
Quha
evir
wald or nochr,
Sic fpeiding proceiding
tJnlyklie
was
I thocht.
L. Thair-
Cherry and. the Slae.
ifke.
i%%
U
ThaIrfor
And
ralhly not to
Without
Quod
Tak
to bewar,
run owrc
fie
Gyds
'far,
as ze.
Courage, Freind, I heir zou
Ze
faid
cvir
my
Will for
We
it
could not be 5
wald not confentj
Befydis that ze
That
fail 3
unto zour Tale,
bettir tent
Quod
them
I wiflit
we
fuld
a
dim
Pairt I repent,
faw them mair than him:
For they are the Stayer
Of
us, as weil as
I think
Go
now
forwart
he
5
they fchrink
let
them
now,
be*
LI.
Go, go, We naithing do but gucksj
They
fay the
Voyage
Quhair
Quod
ilk
nevir luks,
ane has a Vote.
Wifdofn gravely. Sir, I grant,
We were
nae warfe zour Vote to Want,
Sum
Sentance heir I note.
31 *
$"P-
1
Sle Cherrie and the
32
Suppofc ze fpeak
Sum
Ze wald
Fruit thairin
be forward
And cums
It
may
Slae*
but begels,
it
L
fynd;
I confefs,
afcymis behynd.
be that they be
Defavit that nevir douritj
Indeid, Sir, that Held, Sir,
Has mekle Wit about
it.
til.
TiiEN
willfull Will begaxi to rage,
And fware he faw
naithing in Age,
But Anger, Yre and Grudge;
And for my
fell,
To
my Companions
quat
all
c.uod he,
I fvveir
heir,
Gif they admit zou Judge.
Experience
is
grown
That he begins
The
laif
j
fae auld,
to rave
j-
;
but Courage are fae cauld,
Nae Hazarding
For Danger 3
they haif
far ftranger
Has made them than they war,
Gae
frae then,
That nowther
wc
pray then,
dow nor
dar.
LIII.
Quhy
and the
lt%e Cherry
Slae.
133
LIU.
Quhy
may not
thcfe three lcid this ane,
an hunder myne alane,
I led
Bot Counfal of them
I grant
But
I
all.
quod Wlfdom ze haif led.
wald
how mony
fpeir
Or
fped,
J
furdert bot a Fall.
But owther few or nane
Experience can
trow.
I
tell;
Man may wyte
JHc fays the
The
Tyme
firft
He
but zou
that
he
fell.
kens then, quhais Pcnns then,-
Thou
borrovvit
His
Wounds
He
gat
him
to flee;
zet, that ftounds zet,
them then throu
thee.
LIV.
That, quod
Will
flatterit
Experience,
Will
was
firft
he flew
him
in a
Low.
fet
his Counfell
borrow
trew;
him quhen
Will
To
is
and Convoy,
frae the blindit
Baith Quaver,
Boy
Wings and Bow y
31 s
'
Quhair-
3th e Cherrie
134
and the
Stae*
Quhairwith before he feyd to mute,
He nowthcr
Nor
zet had
To
Neid of ony
quench
Zouth,
zjeld to
Jiis
Fruit,
deidlie
Drouth.
£uhilk pyns him and dwyns him.
To
Deid,
wate not how,
I
Gif mil then did
then,
ill
Himfelf remembers how.
LV.
For
I Experience
Lykc
as I ufe to
was
be
Quhat Tyme he
To
As
thair
all
quhafr,
.wytit Will
be the Grand of all his Grcif,
I
my
can be a Preif
felf
And
Witnefs thairuntill:
Thair are nae Bounds but
Nor
Nor
fecret
I haif bene,
Hidlings frae
Things that
I
me
hid,
haif fene
That he or ony did
Thairfoir
l-et
now, no moir now,
him think
to conceild;
For quhy now, even
Am
Bet bound
I
now
to reveild.
LVLMy
$he Chef fie and the Slaef
%2$
Lvr.
My Cuftome
For to declair
is
The Truth, and nowthcr
For ony
Gif
nor pare,
cik
a Jot:
wilful Will delyts in Leis,
Example in thy
How
And
Man
with
his
Thee
felf
his
felf,
gif he
ufli his
was
fure,
Counfell ancf,
zet be bauld get.
wrakthee war not wef
Think on
now of zon now?
Quod Wijdom then
Weil, quod
£oat$
zet to brek thy Bains:
Quha wald
To
feis
Language wald alure
Thou knawsthy
Thou
thou
he can turn
Experience,
to rac,
gif he
Submits himfclf to you and me,
I wate quhat I fould fay.
Our gude Advyfe he
fall
not want,
Provyding always that he grant
Jo
put zon Will away,
31
A»#
X
fbe Chenie and
06
And
banifch baith
- That
all
him and
the Slae^
JDifpair,
gudc Purpofe
Spills j
Sae he will mell with them nae
mair,
Let them twa
flyte thair fills,
Sic CoifTing bot Lolling,
All honeft
Men may
That Change
Quod
Quod
ufej
now were
ftrange
now,
Reafon, to refufe.
LVIII.
Will,
Fy on him quhen he
flew,
That poud not Cherries then anew,
For to.haif ftayd
Quod
He nowther
faw nor
neidit
Till he himfelf
Firft
quhen he
He
Thy
his SturrT
Reafon, ihocht he bear the Blame,
rniftert not,
neids and
them,
had hurt:
he michr,
may now
Foly quhen he had his Flicht
Empaflhed him to pow.
Baith he
now
and
we now
Perfaiye thy Purpofe plain
To
turn him, and burn him,
And blaw on him
s$g
!
again.
LIX. Quqq
Hie Cherrie 'and
the Side.
137
LIX.
Quod
Quhy
Skill,
Far better
late
Cum
Tyme we may
waft but prefent
Speik on. Experience,
Tyme
I haif
in vain,
f
Reafon,
A Man
4
.;^
K
to curat.
The
Seafon
flyds
away,
\_{
him and mak him
gif that ze
may,
LX.
Quod
I
Will,
Quod
3
Gif he be not a Man,
pray zou, Sirs, quhat
He
is
he than
lukes lyke ane at
?
leift.
.
not to remain with m@,
Nocht but a
brutal Beift;
~
\
Reafon, Gif he follow thee,
And mynd
1
_\
dum,
hard, quod he,.
With Slowthing
Firft tak
:
lets fc,
knaw not Things
Quod
zit;
quod Wit) v
that,
think ze hald ze
Byganes
}
not get again,
Beware with
I
him
us help
Tint
Of
langcr ftryve
than never thryve,
let
We
We
we
fuld
.
;
&he Ckeme and the
t$8
A Man
Side,
in Schapc doth not confift,
For
zour taunting Tales,
all
Thairfoir, Sr Will, I wald ze wift
Zour Metaphyfick
Gae
Zour Logick
Sum Day
failsj
a Zeir zit
Icir zit
•
at the Schulic,
then ze
may
then
Pafs Mailer with the Mulis*
LXI.
Quod "Will,
I marvell quhat ze mein,
Suld not I trow
For
all
my
ain
twa Een,
zour Logick
If I did not I
war not wyfe:
Quod
I
B£afon 3
Nane
haif tald
ferlies
,
Schulis,
zou
<
thryfe,
mair than Fulis j
Thair be mae fences than the Sicht,
""'i
Quhilk ze owre-hale for Hafte,
To
wit, gif ze
remember
richt,
Smell, Heiring, Touch, and Tafle,
All quick Things haif
I
mein baith
By Kynd
Few
laks
Man
then,
them
Wc
and
fit
Things,
Beifr,
fynd then
in the
leiffc.
LXII.
Sai
£be Chenie and the
Stae.
139
LXIL
be that Confequens of thyne,
5ae
Or
Syllogifm faid lyke a Swyne,
A Cow
Thou
may
ufes only but
Scho touches,
teach thee Lairj
thyne Eies,
and (6$?
taftes, fmells, heirs,
Quhilk matches thee and mair:
But fince to triumph ze
As
Sir^
intend.,
prefently appeirs,
for zour Clergie, to be kend s
Tak ze twa
AfTes Eirs,
Kae Myter
perfyter
Gat Midas for
That Hude
To
Sir
his
is
Meid,
gude
Sir
hap Zour Brain-fick
Heidi.
LXIII.
Ze
haif nae Feil for to defyne^
Thoch ze
haif
Cunning
A Man
With
litle
To grow
Wark
to be a
zit
a galant
To
ze
to declyne
Mule,
may vowd
Horfe and gudc,
ryde thairon at Zule
But
*4o
Cherrie and the Side.
Slfe-
But to our Ground quhair
For
I mutt be Matter to the
But thou to
began,
Jefts,
Man,
brutall Beifh j
we twae maun
Sae
To
wc
zour guttkCs
all
caufe baith
be twae,
Kynds be knawn,
myne
Kcip thyne then frae
And
ilk
then,'
ane ufe thair a win.
LXIV.
The'n
Will as angrie as an Ape,
Ran ramping
fweiring rude and rape,
Saw he none
He
Quhithcr
did
it
For
He
other Schifcj
wald not want ahe Inch of Will/*'
wald be
And
Yea he
him Gude or
thirty
,
forrooift in the Feild,
f
Maifter gif he micht,
Though
Shall
|"
Reafon had the richt:
he
now mak me now
His Subject or his
Na
._
.
fuld rathar die than zield,
'
I*
111,
of his Thrift;
rather,
Shall quick
my
Slaif,
Father
gang
to his Graif.
LXV.
itbe Cherrie
$
I hecht
To
pcrifch
Cum
Quod
Ze
LXV.
my Heart
him quhylc
firft
Reafon,
and the
is
Slae.
14
heal,
or he prevail,
i
quhat fo may:
after
Dout ze not indeed j
2
Nail upon the Heid,
hit the
It fall
Suppofe ze
...J
be as ze fay.
fpiir for to
That Meir may
zou
leif
ficker as
ze
*
afpyre,
Zour Brydle wants a
As
j
|Vg
Bit,
in the
J
Myre,
fit.
Zour Sentance, Repentance,
Sail learn
And
zou,
I
believe,
anger zou langer,
Quhen
ze that pratick prievc,
LXVI.
As
ze haif dyted zour Decreit,
Zour Prophefie
to
be complete,
Perhaps, and to zour Pains,
It
has bein faid, and
A
wilfull
Man
may be
fac,
wants nevir Wae,
Thocht he
gets
Me
Gains.
But
i\z
tfbe
But fen
ste
Cheme and
think
To mount
Of zour
awin
the Slat
Thing
eafy
it
aboif the
Mune,
Fidle tak a Spring,
And daunce quhen
If than Sir the
ze haif donej
Man
Sir
Lykes of zour Mirth, he may^
But
fpeir firft
Quhat he
and heir
firft
himfell will fay*
LXVII.
Then
To
fay,
all
togither they began
Cum
on, thou martyrit Mart^
Quhat
is
thy Will, advyfe
Abaifd a bony quhyle
And mufd
or
I
I turnd
I
baid,
my Anfwer
me
]
?
maid,
anes or twyfe,
Behalding. ilky ane about,
Quhais Motions muvit
Sum
me
maifl^'
fcimd afford, fum dred for Dout,
Will ran reid-wod for Haift,
With wringing and
For
Jvfadnefs lyke to
flinging,
mang 5
Difpair to, for Care to,
iVald neids himfell gae hang.
LXVUI. Qjmiix
%he 'Cbmh and
the Slae.
141
LXVIII.
QuHiLK
Quod
he,
quhen Experience perfavi^
Remember
As Will
Quhen
that
gif
alledgt
we
of
%
ravit,
lair,
he {ware he naithing faw
In Age, but Anger, flak and flaw3
And
cahkert of Confait j
£e could not luck as he aledgt,
That
He was
He
Opinion*
all
fae frak
and
fpeirtj
fyrie edgt,
thocht us four but
feirt:
chan%
Quha
panfis,
Quod
he, nsc Worfchjp wins^
To fum
beft
quhat
fall
cum
beft
That hap Weil rak weM
rins*
Lxix.
2£iT,
For
quod
all
Experience , behaU,
the Tales that he has tald*
How
he himfell behaifs,
Becaufe Difpair could not
Lo
quhair he hangs
And
in a
all
cum
fpeid^
but the Heid,
Widdy
waifs
est
144
Z%e Cheme and
Gif zou be
fure anes thou
To Men
fe,
with them mells,
that
Gif they had hurt or
the 'Slafi
may
helpit thee,
Confidder be themfells.
Then
By
chufe thee to ufe thee.
us, or fie as
Say fone
Mak
now,
owther
zone,
haif done
now,
aff or on,
LXX.
Per saves
The
thou not quhairfrae proceids
frantick Fantafie that feids,
Thy
furious flaming Fyre,
Quhilk dois thy
comburty
bailfull Breift
That nane but we, quod they, cancuir,
Or
help thy Hearts Difyre :
The
perfing Paflion of thy Spreie
Has
holit thy
That waifts thy
vital
Breath,
heavy Heart with Heit,
Defy re draws on thy Death.
Thy
Puncis renouncis
AU
kynd of quiet Reft,
That Fever has ever
Thy
Perfon fae oppreft.
LXXI.
Cot*
5?be Cherrie
and the
Slae.
145
LXXI.
Coud
He
thou
cum
anes acquaint with Skill,
kens-quhat Humors dois the
And how
He knaws
And
thy Cair contracts 5
Ground of
the
all
thy Greife,
Recipies for thy Releife,
All Medicines he
Cum
ill,
on, quod
Skill,
To
my
put
maks
content
:
am
I
helping Hand,
Providing allways he apply
To
Counfell and
Command j
Quhyle we than, quod he, than,
Ar
mindit to remain,
Gife Place
Thou
now,
in cafe
now
get us not again.
LXXII.
we
Assure
thyfell, gif that
Thou
not get thy Purpofe fped,
fall
Tak
tent
we
haif thee tald
Haif done, and dryve not
The Man
that will not
He
fall
fched,
aff the
Day,
quhcn he may,
not quhen he wald.
ft
Quhat
146
Cherrie and the Slae.
Sffir
Quhat wald thou do,
I
Accept or gife
Quod
me
think
I, I
To
wald
us.
we
wift.
owre:
mair than
blift
famous four
find fie
Befyde me, to gyde me,
Now
quhen
I
haif to do,
Confiddering the fvviddering
Ze fand me
firft
into.
LXXIIL
Quhen
Courage
And Danger
draif
With
his
craift a
me
Stamok
ftout,
into Dout,
Companion
Dreid:
Quhyls Will wald up aboif the Air,
Quhyls
I
was dround
in deip Di/pair,
Quhyls Hdpe held up
Sic pithy Refouns
On
That
I
ilka
Sae
Heid
i
and Replys
Syde they fchew,
quha was not
Thocht
my
all
verie
wyfe
thair Tales
wer trew
mony and bony
Auld Problemes they propond
Baith quicklie and
I
liklie,
mar veld meklc ond.
LXXIV. 2 it
CUrHe and the
Ithe
Sla'e*
147
LXXIV.
Zit
wan
Hope and Courage
the
Feilcf,
Thocht Dreid and Danger neir wald
But
Swa,
fled to find
zou Four met, they wer
fra
Becaufe ze gart us
They
cum
again,
QuKair they wer Fugitive
To
fpeik
and ftand in
Quod
fain 3
greind to get ze Juge
Zou maid them
Reafon,
Aft
i
befoir,
frank and fre,
Aw
nae moir,
Swa
fuld
be
:
Tymes now, bot Crymes how>
But even per Force
1
The
zeild 3
Refuge $
it
Strang ay, with
falls
Wrang
ay*
Put Weaker to the Walls.
LXXV.
QtiHiLK
Strength
is
is
a Fault ze
maun
confefs,
not ordaind to opprefs
With Rigour, bye the
But on
The
riehtj
the contrair, to fuftein
waik-anes that owreburdent bein,
Als mckle as they micht.
.»*
ml
1
.
148
fbe Chime
atid the Slae,
Sae Hope and Courage did, quod
I,
Experimented lyke
.
Schaw
skilld
and
That Danger
Quod
Lang
Infift
We
Refouns quhy
pithie
lap the Dyke.
Dreid, Sir, tak heid, Sir,
fpeiking Part
maun
fpill,
not, ze wirt not
went
againft our Will.
LXXVI.
With
Ze
Courage ze Wer fae content,
1
nevir focht our fmall Confenty
Of
us ze ftude nae
Aw
:
Thair Logick LefTons ze allowt,
Ze wer determined
Allcdgence
For
all
to trowit,
pa'ft
the Proverbs
we
Ze thocht them
Our Reafons had
Had
bein
ze bein
Til!
perufd,
skantly skilld,
als
als
Laws
weil rufd,
weil willd
our Syde as zour Sydey
Sae trewlie
We
for
fee
I
now
may term
in
thee
Affection dois affirm
it,
now
it.
LXXVII.Ex-
€be Cherrie and the She.
14$
LXXVII.
|£sferience
We
then fmyrkling fmylda
are na Bairns to be begyld,
Quod
he, and fchuke
For Authors quka
They
We
alledges us,
we
fofter deidlie Feid:
ar equall for ze
Nae
,
Heid|
wald not gae about the Bufs
To
For
Ills
Perfon
we
all,
refped,
haif bene fae, ar zit, and
Be found
fall
-
fae in Effcc]:.
i
ze wcr,
Gif
we wer
We
had cumd unrequyrd^
But
we now,
Do
as
ze
now.
fee
naitliing undefyrd.
LXXVIII.
Thaib.
is
a Sentence faid be fum,
Let nane uncalld to Counfell
That welcum weins
Zea
I haif
Quha cum
hard anither
j
cum
to be
3
zit,
uncallt, unfervd fuld fit.
Perhaps, Sir, fae
may
ze.
ftbe Cberrie
g&'$
and the She*
fiudeman, Gramcrcy for zour Geek,
Quod
pif-ze wer
Hope, and lawly louts^
we
fent for,
.JJccaufc the
Zour
fufpc#,
Do&our
Zeirs
now
With Wifdom
Rejoycing in
ze haif
Till
douts:
appcir no\?
to be vext3
gloflfing,
tint
zour Texto
LXXIX.
Qjjhair
ze
Quha wald
wer
Pruve
Weill,
fent for, let us fc
be weicomer than We,
that,
and
we
ar payd.
quod Exprlence^ beware,
Ze ken not
in quhat Cafe ze are,
Zour Tung has zou bctrayd
The Man may
ablens tyne a Stot
That cannot count
In zour awin
Bow
Be mair than
Qiiha wats,
Be
?
half ane Inch:
Sir,
if that, Sir,
four, quhilk feimeth fweitj
I feir
A
his Kinfch
ze ar owre-fchot
now
ze heir
now
dangerous Decreit.
LXXX.
Sir,
and the She.
itbe Cherrie
LXXX.
that Sentence ze haif fayd,
Sir, by
I
pledge, or
all
the Play be playd,
That fum
Sen ze but put
lofe a Laike
fall
me
Sic heids as help for
my
Zour Warrand
Speir at the
Man
s
for to pruve,
zour
Behuve,
but waik
is
and
felf,
:
fe,
Suppofe ze ftryve for State,
Gif he regarded not
Had
learnd
And
how
my
he
Leflbn late*
granted he wanted
Baith Reafon, Wit and Skill,
Compleining and meining
Our Abfdnce
did
him
111*
LXXXf.
Confront
Gif
zit
him
he rews
furdcr Face to Face,
his rackles
Perhaps, and ze
For ay
Quha
fince
firft
Adam
and
Race,
fall
heir;
iince
Eve,
thy Leifings did believ©,
I faid thy Doftrine deir
ijri
152
and the
Sfhe Cherrie
Quhat has bein done, even
I keip in
2c promife
Mynd
to this
Slae*
Day
allmaift,
:
furder than ze pay,
Sir,
hope
for
all
zour Haiit*
Promising, unwitting,
Zour Hechts zou
I
fchaw zou,
Zour Byganes
nevir huiked3
I
knaw zou,
I
haif buiked.
LXXXII.
Count wer
I could, in Cafe a
craivt,
Schaw Thoufands Thoufands thou
Qiihair thou
And by
the,
contrair I
was trew
may
Quhilk thou maun, thocht
I
But trewly
greive thee, granta
it
Man,
tald the nakit
Truth
To Men
But only
that melld with
To fum
zit,
Quhilk
And
I
then
me^
for Rueth.,
Iaich to lie
Thy Suckour
s
vaunt,
trumpit nevir a
Por nowther Rigour nor
delaivt,
to ane
to
:
cum
z?t,
will be fiicht,
maun
try then,
regifler it rieht.
PCXXIII. Ha,
j
ihe'Cbenie and the Slae.
IJ»S;
LXXXIII.
^Ha,ha
Ze
!
quod Hope, and
loudlie leuch 3
are but a Prentife at the Pleuch,
Experience ye prieve 5
Suppofe
Byganes
all
as
ze fpak,
Ze are nae Prophet worth a Plak,
Nor
I
Ze
I
bund to
fuld not fay, Sir,
But quhen ye
Zit,
quod
believe.
rill
ze
fe,
fays
fe it
Experience, at thee
Mak mony
Mints I may,
By Signs now, and Things now
Quhilk ay befoir
me
beirs,
Expreffing by gueffing
The
Perril that appeirs.
LXXXIV.
Then
And
Hope replyd,and that with Pith,
wyfelie
weyd
his
Sententiouflie
Qiiod he
That
faifs
I
am
the
Words
and
thairwith,
fliort:
Anchor Grip
the Sailours
and
thair Shipx
Frae Perril to thair Port.
Quod
$$£ Cherrie and
1 54
Quod
As we
And
haif fund bcfoir,
mony
Iofes
By
the Slae*
Anchor dryves,
he, aft times the
thoufand Lyves,
Ship wrack on the Shore.
Zour Grips
but
aft,
Quhen Men
flips aft
haif maift to do,
Syne Icivs them and
reivs
Of thy Companzions
them
to.
LXXXV.
Thou
But
lejfsthem not thy felf alane,
Grief quhen thou art gane,
co thair
Gars Courage quhat them
Quod
Hope,
wald ze underftudc,
I
I grip faft gif the
And
Thcr
{lild
Wyte
fleit
Grund be gude,
quhair
it
C\c as
I
accufd at
fuld haif
Befoir the
is
me
nae Fault with
Nor
falfe,
be fund
plumd the Grund,
Anchor
fall,
at
Neid
Micht warn them
if they
Gif they
3
all,
Their Leid ay
Or
alsj
thair
haif gude
wald
ay,
wald,
ftay thair,
Anchor
ha^d.
LXXXVI.Gif
Sie Cherrie and the Side.
l
SS
lxxxvi.
jGif
« reid
richt
was not
it
I,
But only Ignorance quhairby
Thair Carvells
I
am
All,
Trumpcr
not for a
quod
I
Experience,
haif
my
TJiat
now
is
cloven.
tane,
ane,
Proccfs proven,
To wit, that we wer
To cum
wcr
all
cald ilk ane
before
we camcj
Objection ze haif nanc,
Zour
felf
may
fay the
fame
s
Zear now owrefar now,
Cum
forward for to
flic
',
Perfavc then zc haif then,
The ward End of the Trie.
L XX XVII.
Qjlthen Hope was gawd
Quod
We
Mak
into the Quick,
Curage, kicking at the Prick,
let
zc weil to wit.
he zou welcomer than wc.
Then ByânesByganes,
fareweil he,
Except hefeik u«
zit:
He
the Qherrie and the Slat,
156
He underftands his awn Eftatc,
Let him his Chiftains chufej
But
zic his Battill will
be blate,
Cif he our Forfs
refufej
Refufe us or chufe us,
j
Our
Counfell
is
he dim;
But
flay
We
haif nae Help for him-
he or
ftray he,
LXXXVIII.
Ex ce p t
Be ze
the Cherrie be his Chofej
his Freinds
we
His Doings
Gif
we
To
fatisfie
perfave
him
are his Foes,
we
difpyte
him with the
His Companie
Slae,
we
quyte:
Then Dreid and Danger grew
And wont
They thocht
that they
all feild that
Sen they had
They
firft
full
glad,
had won;
they had faid.
begun j
thocht then they moucht then^
Without a Party
But
5
fettled fac,
zit thair,
pleid,
with Wit
thair,
They wer dung doun with
Speid.
LXXXIX. Sirs
tfte Cherries
and the
Slae.
j$>]
Lxxxix.
Sir s} Dreid and Banger then, quod Wtt%
did zour
Ze
fells
me
to
fubmit,
Experience can proifc.
That, quod Experience^ I paft,
Thair awin Confeflions make tKem
They may
For Gif I
richt
This
To
wit, the
riae
faftj
mair remoife
5
remember me,
Maxime then
Man
they made,
with Wit fould
Quhat Philofophs haif
wey
faid,
Quhilk Sentance Repentance
Forbad him
deir to buy,
They knew then how trew
And
then.
prefsd not to reply.
XC.
Thocht
he dang Dreid and banger ddxmj
Zii Courage could not be
Hope hecht him
He
thocht him fell,
His Enemies were
It
how
5
Hyre 5
fone he faw
laid fae
was nae
owrecum
fie a
law,
Tyme to
tyre
He
STite Cherrie and the
158
He hit the Yron cjuhyle it was het,
In cafe
For he efteemt
fould
it
grow
Stae,
cauldj
his Faes defate,
Quhen
anes he fand
Thoch wc no
Haif bein
Unfocht
3
faldj
and frank,
fae frie
zit
them
quod he nowy
he mocht
zit,
'For Kyndnefs cund us thank.
XCI.
Suppose
it
fae as
thou haft
1 hat unrequyrd We
At
leift
that
Experience ze flart
2e nakhing dow
And
Mair
Aid y
profrert
came of Luve,
owre
till
faid,
all
fone,
be done,
then perhaps ze pruve,
plain than pleafant to perchance,-
Sum
As fad
as ze
tell
zour
Ze cannot
that have
fell
zou
tryt,
advances
weil denyt:
Abyde then zourTydc
And wait upon
the
ZeknawSir, zeaw,
To
thcrtj
Wind,
Sir,
hald ze ay behind.
XGII. Quts*r
and the
Sthe Cherrie
Slae.
159
XCIT.
Quhen
zc haif done fum duchtie Deidsy
Syne ze fuld
how
fe
all
To wryt them
fucceids,
as they
wer:
Friend, huly, haft not half fae fait,
Leiftj
quod
,
Experience, at lall,
my Do&rine
Ze buy
deir;
Hope puts that Hafte into zoiir Held,
Quhiik Boyls zour barmy Brain j
Howbeit
cums haly Speid,
Fulis haft
Fair Hechts will
Sic
mak
Fulis fain.
Smyling begyling
Bids
feir
Zit I
That
not any Freits;
now
all is
deny now,
Gold
that gleits.
XCIII.
Suppose
Aftymes a
not Silver
tentlefs
all
that fhynes,
Merchand
rynes,
For bying Geir begefsj
For
all
the Vantage and the winning,
Gude Buyers
get at the
Quod
Beginning,
Courage nocht the
lafs.
Qiihyls
1
60
Quhyls
*the Qherrie
and the
gude Merchants tynes
as
Gif
aulcl
Mens
Slae.
as wins,
Tales be trew,
Suppofe the Pack cum to the Pins,
Quha
can his Chance cfchcw.
Then gude
Sir,
Gude Buyers
conclude^ Sir,
haif done baith,
Advance then, tak Chance then,
As
furidrie
gude Ships hath.
XCIV.
Qu h a
wift quhat wald be cheip or deir,
Should neid to traffique but a Zeir,
Gif Things to cum were kend
Suppofe
all
bygane Things be
Zour Prophefie
is
but prophane,
Ze had beftbehald
Ze wald
accufe
me
the
Endj
of a Cryme,
Almaiit befoir
Torment zou not
plain,
we
met,
befoir the
Tyme,
Since Dolour pays nae Det,
Qtihats bypaft that I paft,
Ze wot
gif it
To cum
zit
was
by
weil,
Dume
Confefs ze haif nae
zit,
Feil.
XCV. Zit
i
£he
'Cberrie
and the She.
161
xcv.
Zl T, quod Experience, quhat then,
Quha may be
Let
Quhen
To
meiteft for the
Man 3
ArifWer haif5
us his
mip
they fubmitted them to
Reafon
I
was
fain to
fjlie,
His Counfell for to crai£
Quod
he> fince ze zourfells fubmif,
To do
I fall advyfe
as I decreitj
with
Skill
and Wit,
Quhat they think may he melt;
They cryd
At Reafon
then,
for
we
byde then,
Refuge j
Allow him and trow him,
As Governour and Juge.
XGVI.
Then
faid they all
with ane Confent,
Quhat he concludes we
are content
His Bidding to obey
He
>
hath Authoritie to ufe,
Theniak
his
Choice
And
quhom he
will chufe3
langer not delay:
%
_
Then
fhe Chef tie and the
1 62
Then Reafon
raife
Quod
I hope
this
he,
myne
Hearts
we may gang
To
cum
hidder,
may be compofd,
Pley
That
Slae.
and was rejoyfd 5
all
now
togidder j
I fall
now
His proper Place affign.
That they
They
heir
fall
fay heir,
think nane uther Thing*
XCVII.
Come
Ze
on, quod he,
underftand baith
Companion,
Gudc and
Skilly
111,
In Phyfick ze are fyhe,
Be
Ivlediciner to the
And
fchaw
To
fie
Man,
Cunning
as
ze can,
put him out of Pyne
firft gaird the
Grund of
all
j
his Griefy
Quhat Sicknes ze fufped,
Syn hike quhat
Or
laiks for his Relief,
furder he infeck.
Comfort him, exhort him,
Give him zour gude Advyce,
And
pance not, nor skance not,
The
Perril
nor the Pryce.
XCVI.IL Thoch
and the
tfhe Cherrie
Side.
163
xcviri.
Thoch
it
be cummerfom quhat reck,
Find out the Caufe by the
And working of
Zit quhyle
Se
firft
we
Veins
his
may
And
be fund.
dow
to haif
him
haile,
for that Purpofe prcife,
maun
afF the Caufe, the Effect
Sae
5
Grundy
to the
pacifie his Pains 5
quhat ze
Cut
it
quhat Fafhion
To
Do
grip
Eflfecl:,
all
his
Sorrows
His Fever
fall
fail,
ceife.
nevir
Ffae thencefurth haif a Forfs,
Then urge him
He
will not
to purge
wax
him,
the warfe.
XCIX.
Qu o t h
I
Skilly his
Sences are fae
knaw nae Liquor worth
To
quench
his deidlie
Except the Cherry Help
fick,
a Leik
Drouth,
his Heit,
Quhais fappy Slokning (harp and fweit,
Micht melt
into his
%
z
Mouth,
And
1
&he Cherrie and
64
And
his
To
Nane
the Slab.
Melancholie remuvc,
mitigate his
Mynd,
hailfomer for his Behuve,
Norofmair
Nae
cooling Kynd.
Nettar direclar,
Could
the
all
Gods him
Nane
lyke
it I
give,
mend him,
IS; or fend him to
believe.
C.
For
Drouth decays,
Quhy
then,
as
it
digeftsj
quod Reafon, naithing
how
But
Maift trew, quod
Zk we maun
it
may be had?
Skill, that is
haif
the Scope,
fum Help of
Quod Danger
I
am
I wifs
we
is
lukk or
Quod
I
The
5
highlie horft 5
we
lap:
Wit, that
mein
now
wer not
convein
Counfell ane and
Begin then,
Quod
Hope.
redj
His Haflynefs bred us Mifhap
Quhen he
refts,
call in
Reafon3 fae
warirY
now
all,
then}
I falh
CI.
Then
and tie
tfhe Cherrie
Slae.
i
65
CI.
Then
Reafon
raife
Bdyve conveining
To
With
all
the lave,
heir quhat they waldfay,
Silver Scepter in his
As Chiftain chofen
And
He
with Gefture grave,
to
Hand,
command,
they bent to obey.
panfed lang befoir he fpak,
And
in a ftudie flude,
Syne he began and
Cum
Silenfs brak,
on, quod he, conclude
Quhat
Zon
Way now we may now
Cherrie
cum
to catch,
.Speik our Sirs, about Sirs,
Haif done,
let us
Difpatch.
cir.
Quoth Courage, skurge him firft that skarsj
Much Muling Memorie
1 tell
Quod
In
zou myne
but mars,
intent.
Wit, quha will not partlie panfc,
Perils periihes perchanfe,
Owre
rackles
may
%
3
repent.
Then
1
tfbe Cherrie and the Slae,
Experience, and fpak,
66
Then 3 quod
them
Sir, I haif fein
In
baith,
Braidicnefs and lye aback,
Efcape and
cum
But quhat
to Skaith
now
Sturt follows
all
:
of that now,
Extrcamsj
Retain then the Mein then,
The
fureft
Way
feims.
it
cm.
Quhaik
fum has furderd, fum has
faildj
Qyhair Part has perifht3 Part prevaild,
Alyke
all
cannot luck
$
Then owther venture with the ane,
Or
with the uther
The
Quod Houp 3
let alane,
Cherrie for to pluck.
for Feir Folk
Quod Danger
Quod
let
maun not
fafh,
not lichtj
Wit, be nowther rude nor rafhj
Quod
Reafon ze haif Richt:
The
Reft then thocht beft then*
Qiihen Reafon
faid
it
fac,
That
roundlie and foundlie
They
fuld togidder gae.
CIV. To
Chenie and the
5fbe
Slae.
167
CIV.
To
As
get the Cherric in
for
my
Tho
The
Perril
all
Haft,
Saftie ferving maift,
Dreid and Danger feirdf
of that irkfom Way,
Left that thairby I fould decay,
Quha
then fae weak appeird
and Courage hard befyde,
Zit Hope
Quha with them wont
Did
Hand
tak in
us
all
contend^
to gydc,
Unto our Journeys End,
Implaidging and waidging
J5aith
twa
thair
Ly ves
myne,
for
Provy ding the Gyding
To them were
granted fyne.
CV.
Then
Dreid and Danger did appeal,
Ailedging
it
Nor
But
could neir be weil,
zi;
wald they agries
faid they fould
found thair Retreit^
Becaufe they thocht them nae
Condu&ers unto me;
4
%
Ways
meit
^
ftbe Cherrie and the Mae.
1 68
Nor to no Man in myne Eftate,
With
Sicknefc fair oppreft
For they tuke ay the
Omitting of the
Thair
Is
Quhat
But
neireft perqucircft,
befoir
Sir,
recks
may
we maun
full
Intent
fay, Sir,
them of zour
CVI.
twa now we
as for us
Our
To
beft.
always to them baith,
Quair they,
Be him
J
neirefl Gate,
Sbaith.
fweir
appeir,
is
now
haif ze hale, and always was,
That Purpofe
Sae
is
for to bring to pafs,
not thairs I trow
Then Hope and Courage
The Gods of
Gif they wrocht not
Of me
Our
;
did atteft,
baith thefe Parts^,
all
for the beft
with upricht Hearts
Chiftain then liftan
His Scepter did enjoyn
Nae moir
thair
Uproir there
AflU fte there Sp-yf was done.
CVIL Re-
<£be Cherrie
and the
Slae.
1 6c,
CVH.
Dreid and Danger
Rebuiking
fair,
Suppofe they meint wcil evirmair
To
me,
as they
had fwornj
Becaufe thair Nibours they abufit,
In fwa far as they had accufit
Them,
Did he not
els,
The
quod he, confent
Cherrie for to
We
Quod Danger ,
But
ze hard beforn.
as
zit
the
pou
?
are weil content,
Manner how ?
We
fall
now,
Get
this
Man
evin
all
now,
with us thair s
ands heft then
It refts then,
Zour Counfell
to declair.
CVIIL
Weil
We
faid,
quod Hope and Courage^ now
thairto will accord
And
Lyk
as befoir
Sae
we
fall
we
repeit the
We
with zou,
abyde by themj
did fubmit,
famyn
zit,
raynd not to reclaime:
Quhomc.
i
fbe Che me and
>/o
Qyhpme
they
Wc
4nd
fall
fall
the
them follow
Way;
ftraight,
Man, quhat we may,
riuder this
Becaufe
we
haif fae hecht;
Promitting, bot
flitting,
To
To
and
do the Thing
pleife baith,
This
She.
chufe to gyde the
filly
fickly
we
can.
eife baitfy
Man.
CIX.
Quhen
Reafen heard
this, then,
quod he,
I fe zour cheifeft Stay to be.
That
The worthy
Thocht gude
For
we
namd nae Gyde;
that Witt fuld gac feefok.
Perrills to
Qiiod Witty Ther
Quhilk
Quhairof the
haif
Cpunfell hath therfoir,
is
provyde.
but anc of thre,
I fall to
firft
ze fchaw,
twa cannot be,
For ony thing I knaw
The Way
Is that
we
heir fae fley heir^
cannot dim,
Evin owre now,
That
we
four
now,
will be hard for him.
CX. The
2ie Cherrie and the She.
17
ex.
The
next, gif
Quhyle that
we
The
gae doun about,
Bend of Craigs
this
Streim
is
And
alfo
And
braider far than
It
waiding deip,
paffeth
It fuld
we dow
be ydle
leip 3
Wark
to the Sea,
grows ay braider
Sen owre the Lin
The
rin out,
thair fae ftark3
came,
it
rinning Deid dois fignifie
Deipnefs of the fame
The
I leive
How
As
now
that
it
to deive
:
now^
fwifdy flyds,
and creiping,
fleiping
But Nature
fae
provyds.
CXI.
Our Way
then lyes about the Lin 3
Qufiairby I warrand
we
It is fae ftraight
The Waiter
We
fall it
allfo
is
win,
and plain,
fae fchald,
pafs, evin as
With
fall
Plefour,
we
wald,
and bot Pain
:
For
fthe Cherrie
i *fz
For
we
as
fc a
A ft of
Mifcheif
and the
Slat.
grow
a feckles Thing,
Sae lykways dois
this
River flow
Forth of a prettie Spring;
Quhois Throt,
Ze may
flap
As zou,
Sir, I
Sir, I
wot,
Sir,
with zour Neive,
trow,
Sir,
Experience can preivc.
CXII.
That, quod
And
all
ze
Experience, I can,
faid fen
ze began,
I ken to be a Truth.
Quod
Skill,
Quod
Reafon,
The famyn
And
Then
fleip
I
apruves
us remuve,
let
^
nae mair in Sleuth:
Witt and Experience3 quod he,
Sail
The Man
fall
gae befoir a Pace,
cum with
Skill
and me
rj
.
Into the fecond Place ;
Attowre
Sail
cum
now zou
Four
now
into a Band,
Procciding and leiding
Ilk uther
V
?
~
be the Hand.
CXIII.
As
Sim
2%e Cherrie and the
-
i
jr
3
CXIII.
As
'Reason ordert, all
Nane was owrc
Our
obeyd,
rafch,
nane was afFraydj
Counfell was fae wyfe,
As of our Journey, Witt
We
fand
trew in
it
God
blifs
ilka Jot,
the Enterpryfe:
we came
For cvin as
Quhilk
to the Tree/
zc heard
as
Could not be clum
The
did note,
thair
me
fuddenlie,
Fruit, for Rypenefs,
Quhilk haifting and
I fand
my
tell,
fell
5
taifling,
felf relievd
Of Cairs all and Sairs all
That Mynd and Body grievd,
CXIV.
Praise
Quha
be to
did
myne Hekh
Being
And
blefled
Quha
God my Lord
fae lang
to
me
thairfoir3
reftoir,
Tyme pynd;
be His haly Name,
did frae Deith to Lyfe reclaim.
Me
quha was
fae
unkynd.
All
1
74
Sfbe Qherrie
and the
Slae,
All Nations allfo magnifie
Lord,
This evirliving
Lat
me
with zou, and zou with me,
To
laud
Him
ay accords
Quhois Luve ay
we
To
Things,
us abune
And
kifs
all
Him and
Quhois Glore
pruve ay
blifs
Him,
eternall rings.
FINIS.
THE
*7*
**************** **************
I
*************** ***************
THE
Jufting and Debate up at the Doun,
Betwixt William Adamfon and John Sym*
L
«riHE
Was
Debate and Turnament,
grit
Of Truth
-**
for a lufty
nae Tongue can
Betwixt twa Frieks
For Mars the
Was
Nor
not fae
Hercules,
And dang
tell,
Lady gent,
fae fell;
God armipotem
ferfs himfell,
that Aiks uprent,
2
the Deil of Hell
With Horns
that Day.
II.
DjOTJBt"
176
Jufiing and Debate
II.
DoiubtIes
was. not
fie
Amangft the dowfy
Nor
zit
fe
The
Peirs,
nae Clerk in Story rcids
Of fae
To
ducky Deids
triumphand Weirs 5
hou
ftoutly
on
thair Steids
flalwart Knychtis fteirs,
Q-uhyle Bellies bair with brodding bleids
With Spurs
as
fcherp as Breirs,
And
kene that Day.
III.
Up
I
at the
And
Day was
T>oun the
fixed
was the
fct,
Feild,
Qtiher baith thir noble Chiftains met
Enarmit under Schieldj
They wer
fae hafty
and
fae her,
That nane of them wad
But to
And
debait, or be
doun
zield.
bait,
in the Qiiarrell kield,
Or
llane that
Day.
IV.
Theue
letwttit
Addmfon and Sym.
177
IV.
There was
wald
I
that
ane better and ane worfs,
it
were
wittin,
For William wichtar was of Corfs
Than Sym, and
Sym
faid,
He
But hecht he
And he
better knittin.
nocht by
fet
his Forfsj
fuld be hittin,
micht counter Will on Horfsr
For Sym. was better
Nor
fittin
Will that Day.
V.
To
fee the Stryfc
And mony
came Zonkers
Man,
a galziart
was
All Dainties deir
thair bot
The VVyne on brocn
Trumpetts and
flout,
ran
it
Schalims.,
Dour,
with a
Scholia,
Playd or the Rink began,
And
equal Juges
To
fee
quha
fat
tint
The
about
or
wan
Field thai: Day.
arn
VI.
With
1
Jufting and Delate
73
VI.
With
It
To
twa blunt Truncher-Spelrs
was
with baith their Faces
fecht
For Luve,
A
as
is
He
bair,
the Gyfe;
cam
Friend of theirs, throu hap
And
(qu'airi
their Interprife,
thair,
heard the Roiimor ryfe,
flail
away
their Stings baith clair^
Ajid hid in fecret Wayes,
For Skaith that Day.
VII.-
Strang Men
Wer
fet
of Armes and mickle Micht,
them for
The Harald
cryd,
to furdirj
God
fchaw the
rick,;
Syn bad them go togidder.
Quhair
is
my
Speir
Sum Man go
?
bring
But wald they tarry
fays
Sym
it
hidder
the Knichty
;
thair all Nicht,
Thair Launces cam too lidder
And
flaw that Day.
VIII.
STM
Adamfon and Sym.
tetwixt
if j*
VIII.
SYM flew
Down
Says,
frae the
He
For
as fery as
I fall
Horfe he
rew my
fall
William his
a Fowri;
flaicf,
Staff has flown';
be his Deal.
Vow
plicht to the
Powin^
For Favour or for Feid,
'
Als gude the Trie had ncvir
tûherof
my
To
Speir
groWna
was maid
juft this
•
Day.
IX.
Thir Vows now
They
Them
And
maid to Sun and
Mung
raikit baith to reft,
to refrefch with their Disjune,
Armour
aft their
Not knawing of
Quhen
kicSft
the Deid
was done,
they fuld haif fawn heft,
The Fyre was
pifcht out lang or Nuntfj
Their Denner
fuld:
And
dicht
haif dreft.
up
m
at the
i
Douh
that Day.
x±
Tumi
l8o
Jufting and Debate
X.
Then
wer they movit out of Mynd,
Far mair than of beforne,
They
wift not
hou
to- get
him pynd,
That them had driven \p Scorn
Ther was nae Death mtcht be devynd,
But braid Aiths haif they fworn,
He
fuld deir
And ban
buy be they had dynd,
he was born,
that
Up
at the
Domi
that Day.
XI.
Thin
to Dalkieth they maid them boun*
Reid-wod of
There was
And
this
baith
Reproach,
Wyne
Barrells ran
on
and Venifon,
brotch.
They band up Kyndnes
Nane
in that
Toun 5
frae his Feir to fotch,
For there was nowther Lad nor Louii
Micht
eat a Bakin-lotch
For Fownefs, up
at Dalkieth that
XII.
Day.
Synb
vepwixt
Adamfon and
iSr
Syra.
XII.
Syne
And
after
all
Denner
the
Din,
raife the
Toun on
Steir,
William was wyfe, and held him in,
For he was in a
Sym
Feir.
to haif Bargain could not blin,
1
But bukkit Will on Weir,
Says, Gif thou wald this
Cum
Lady win,
furth and break a Speir
With mc, up
Dalkkth
at
this
Day,
.
XIII.
Thus
ftill
And
for Bargin
Sym
Schame,
fchoutit Will to
Will faw his Faes
Full fair
abydes,
on baith the Sydcs,
he dred for Blame:
Will fchortly to his Horfe he flyde^
And
fetter
fays to
we
baith
And Wedder
Nor
,.5
Sym be Name,
were buyand Hydes
Skins
"at
here,
hame,
up
m
at
Dalkkth
this
Day.
XIV
i
«
^°^
i
Jufii% a vd Debat§
§3
XIV.
Now
is
the
Grume
Richt glad to
was
that
Fy, Thief3 for Schame, cryes
art
Nor
And
I
all
grim
litle
Sym 9
me
Wilt thou not fecht with
Thou
fae
live in Lie,
mair large of Lyth and Lim,
am
be
thrie:
fie
the Field cryd,
Fy on him,
§ae cowardly tuke the Flie
For
Feir,
up
at Dalkieth that
Day*
XV.
Them
every
And
Says
faid 3
Man
He was owre
Sym 3 Send
I fall
gave Will a Mqck,
miek.
for thy Brither $eek
4
not be' to fiek;
For were ze fourfum in a Flock,
I
Tho
compt ze not a
I
To
Liek,
had naithing but a
Rok
gar zour Rumples reik
Behind, up at Dalkieth
this
Day.
XVI,.There
Adamfon and Sym.
letwtxt
185
XVI.
J hi re
was
richt
nocht but haif and gae,
With Lauchter loud
Quhen
they
faw Sym
And
Will
mak
Sym
Courage
fae teuch
tac,
:
on Horfe-back lyke a Rae,
lap
And
it
they leuch,
fie
ran
him
Says, William,
till
cum
a
Heuch,
down
ryde
this Brae,
Thocht ze fuld brek a Beugh,
For Lufe, up
at Dalkieth this
Day.
XVII.
Syne down the Brae Sym braid
And bad Will follow fait 5
To
lyke Thunder,
Grund, for Feircenes, he did funder.
Be he
îd-hill had paft.
William faw
To
Sym
in
fie
a Blunder,
gae he was agaftj
For he
afTeird,
it
was nae Wonder
His Courfour fuld him
.
And
hurt
caft,
him up
HI
4.
at Dalkieth that
XVIII.
Day.
Thm
1
Jufiing and Debate
84
XVIII.
Then
the Zonkers bad
all
Or doun
Sum
cryd the Gouard fuld be kield,
Sum doun
Sum
him tidd.
the Glen to gang;
the Cleuch they thrang;
fum
rufchd,
Sum
fum
rumbled,, and
rield,
be the Bewis hie hang:
Thair Avers £yld up
They were
all
With
Eifc,
the Held,
and pang,
fae fou
up
at Dalkieth that Day,
XIX.
Xhe>*
To
jelly
Abune
Bail
He
And
in a Jak?
he was
feid
it3
his
Brand a Buckler black,
fell
tbe Bairn that baid it.
flipit
Before
John came
Field quhair
fwiftly to the Slak,
rudly doun he raid
h'n,
it,
Curpall was a Crak,
Could nae
Man
tell
quha maid
For Lauchtcrj up
it,
at Dalkieth' that
Day*
XX. Bs
letwixt
Adamfon and Sym,
18$
XX.
Be
than the Bougil gan to blaw,
For Nicht had them owretane
Alace, faid
Sym 3
for faut
That Bargin get
of Law,
I
I name.
Thus hame with mony a Crack and Flaw
They
Syne
palled every ane,
Potter-Raw,
partit at the
findry Gaits are gane,
And
To
them within the Totin
reft
that Nicht,
XXI.
This
Will
And
He
was he beguild the May,
did hir Marriage fpillj
promift hir to
Hir
Purpofe to
Frae fcho
fell
And came
tuke
To
him
fow, he
tint
him
play,
fulfill 5
fled
nae mair hir
Quherfore he
And
let
away,
till 5
the Feild that Day.,
to a Mill,
hyde him
as a
Coward
falfe
Finis,
of Fay.
quod
Scot.
On
186
^
fcTJ £*4
W@?i&&!'4$%¥%$& $% $"*
î>w4
&&J$M<hJ?;M;MJ%'J
%& %$ fe$ S^S^S"^
k\%;#/;^;#/;\%^
E
MAY.
On
i.
% r AY
For
T
To
May
is
Month
them
amenc
maift
in Venus Service bertc^
recreate their heavy Hearts
caufes
And
a
Courage
;
frae the Splene,
May
evry Thing in
reverts.
m
I
n
In
May
May
the pleafent Spray upfprings,
the mirthful Maveis fings,
And now
in
May
to
With Tymmer Wechts
And
Maidens
to trip
falls,
and Rings,
to play Upcpil with the Balls.
III.
I
n
May
gois Gallants bring in
And trymmly occupy
their
With hunt up cyry Morning
In
May
gois
Symmer,
Tymmer,
Plaid:
Gentlewomen gyromer,
In Gardens grene their Grumes to glade.
IV Ik
ii
I
On
MAT.
187
IV.
In May quhen Men
With Robene
To
JSIow
Hid
bring in
all fie
zied eyerichone,
and Littil-John,
Bows and hirkjn Bobbyns $
Game
is
gone,
faftlings
Bat gif it be amangs clovin Robbyns.
V.
Abbotts by Rule, and Lords bot Reafon,
Sic
Senzeors
Upon
Quhen
Tymes owerweil
thair
falfit
Has rung
this
Vyce war lang
Seafon 3
to waik
j
Feiblenefs and Treafon,
thryfs
owre
this
Zodiack.
VI.
In May begins
In
May
In
Gowk
the
Doun and
Deir draw to
May Men
And Ladys
to gail;
Dale,
mells with Famynic,
meit their Luvairs
Quhen Phebus
is
~
leil,
geminu
in
VIL
ButteRj new Cheife,
and Beir in Mays
Connans, Cockles, Cruds and Whey,
Lapfters, Lempets, Muflels in Shells,
Creinleiks,
and
all
fie
Men may
fey,
Suppofe {urn of them fourly fmells.
VIII.
In
On
188
MAT.
VIII.
I
n May
Sum halks
after
To
within thir Bounds;
the Walters,
The Hares
Syne
Men
grit
fum with Hounds,
out throw theForefi catches,
them
fcent the
thair Ladeis
Sounds,
Rynning of the
Ratches.'
IX.,
I
n May frank Archers
Ane
Place to meit, fyne
To
Sum
laich
at the Prikks,
and to beneth the
X.
of Amours
n May Men
To
Marrows mix,
fchute at Butts, at Banks and Braes^
At Revers fum, fum
I
will affix
ferve their Ladies
Sen
.
fuld gae
and nae mae j
thair Relief in Ladies lyes 5
For fum may cum in Favour
To
Clais,
kifs their
fae,
Luve on Buchan Ways.'
XL
I
n May
gois Damofells and
Dams
Lamms 5
Sum at the Bars imbrace like Billers 5
Sum rin at Barlabreiks like Rams,
In Gardens grein to play lyke
Sum round
about the {landing
Pillars.
On
MAT.
189
XII.
I
n May
And
gois
hcs their
Maidens
La
Mynzeons on
To horfe them
Sum
till
Reit,
the
Streit.,
quhair the Gate
is
ruch:
at Inchbuckl'mg-brae they meit,
Sum
in the
\
-g
Mids of Mujfelbrugh.
Ml
XIII.
.'-'-.BO-,,
So Afay and
all thir
Are het and dry
Moncths
in thair Degriej
Therefore ye wanton
For Health of Body
Not
aft
three^
Men
now
in Zouth,
haif ze3
to mell with thanhles Mouth*
XIV.
Sen evryPaftyme
I council you
is
at Pleafure,
to fport with Meafurej
And namely now May 3 June
and July^
Delyt not lang in Luvers Leafure,
But weit your Lipps and labour huly.
§uod Alex. Scot»
JOHNIB
J9o
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG
Q Um
X<J
Of
fpeiks
And
a Gentleman
Sumtyme
The
Men
I
calld
fpeiks
of Lairds,
of hie Degrie,
fing a Sang,
Laird of Gilnockie,
King he wrytes a luving Letter
VVith his ain
And
of Lords, fum
ficlyke
Hand
he hath fent
To cum
and
it
fae 'tenderly,
to
Johny Amjlrang3
fpeik with
him
fpeidily.
Ths
This is the true did Ballad, never printed before, of the
famous John Ârmftrang of Gilnockhall m Liddifdale, a Head
pf a numerous Clan and Fa&ion, who ufed to pafs over
in Troops to .England, making continual Incurfions,
and
ta.lung much Plunder in the bordering Parts.
See an Account of his being taken and executed, with many of his
=
Followers (in his own Country, not contending with his
Prince at Edinburgh, as the vulgar Ballad falfly narrates)
in Buchanan's Hiftory of J<AMES. the Vth, about the
Year 1530.
This
copied from a Gentleman's Mouth
who is the 6th Generation from*
this John.
He tells me this was ever efteemd the genuine
lallad, the common one, falfe,'
Of the Name of
I
îrmfirakg,
Jobnie Armftrang.
The
191
and Armftrangs did convenes
Eliot s
They were
a gallant
Company,
ryde and meit our lawful King,
eill
And
bring him fafe to Gllnockle.
ake Kinnen and Capon
And
hope
They
heill
Hame
dyne
our Royal King,
Gilnookh.
at
ran their Horfe
And
ready then,
Venifon in great Plenty,
Weill welcome
I
.
on
the
Langum Hown3
brake their Speirs with mekle main j
The Ladys
GOD
lukit frae their loft
bring our
Men
Windows,
well back again,
Q_u hen Johny came before the King,
With
all
his
Men
The King he movit
He weind
May
I find
Grace for
For
Bonnet to him,
he was a King
Grace,
my
it
is
as well as
He,
Sovereign Liege,
my loyal Men
my Name
And
fae brave to fee,
his
and me;
Johny Armftrang,
Subject of zours,
my
Liege, faid he.
A way
Johnie Armfir'ang,
19 2
r
Away 3 away,
Out of
I
my
thou Traytor Strang,
Skht thou mayfl fune he2
grantit nevir
And now
a Traytors Lyfe3
not begin with thee.
III
Grant me my Lyfe my Liege, my
And
a
Were
all
thefe
Milk whyt
That prance and nicher
as
mekle gude
As four of
r
Away3 away
a
bony
Steids,
at a Speirj
Ingl'is Gilt,
their braid Backs
dow
beii\
thou Traytor3 dec.
Grant me my
And
Steids,
a foald in a Zeir to me.
gie thee
With
King,;
will give to theej
Four and Twenty Milk whyt
Full
I'll
bony Gift I
Lyfe,
Gift
I'll
my
Liege,
my
King,
gie to thee,
ISude Four and twenty ganging Mills,
That gang thiow a the Zeir
to
me.
Thefe Four and twenty Mills complete,
Sail
And
As
gang
as
for thee
throw
mekle of gude
all thair
all
the Zeir,
reid Quheit,
Happen dow
to bear.
Away')
Johnie Armftrang.
193
'Away, away thou Traytor, &c.
Grant me my
AM a
my
Lyfe,
great Gift
111
Away i away
tho
all
a brave Gift
pay
111
Liege,
leid
my
King,,
j
and Newcajlle Town,
thair zeirly
ze
leid,
flee.
gie to thee
Rent
'Away 3 away thou Traytor3
2e
fould
thou Traytor3 dec.
All betwene heir
Sail
Sons,
Sifters
Grant me my Lyfe, my
And
King,
gie to thee,
Bauld Four and Twenty
Sail for thee fecht
my
Liege,
to thee.
dec.
now, King, he
fays,
Althocht a King and Prince ze be 5
For
I luid naithing in all
my
Lyfe,
I dare well fayit but Honefty
But a
fat
Twa
Horfe and
bony Dogs
a
to
fair
kill
But Ingland fuld haif found
Gif
I
had
livd this
Woman,
a Deir
me
hundred
$|
j
Meil and Malt,
Zeir.
Scho
Johnle Avmftrang.
*9+
Scho
found
Beif and
Mutton
And
But
eir I skaithd
feik het
Surely
But there
But
How
in
Grace
is
Plenties
her a pure
Flic.
at
a gracelefs Face,
nane for
I
my Men
came
frae
and
mc...
Hamc,
thou unkynd wadft bene to mc,
haif kept the Border Syde,
In fpyte of
all
thy Force and xhee,
Wift Englands King that
O
all
could haif laid,
a great Folic;
had Ikend or
wad
Meil and Malt,
Water beneath cauld Yce,
it is
I haif asked
I
Wyfe
neir a Scots
That
To
me
fuld haif
gin a blyth
For anes
I
was
tane,
wald he be
I flew his Sifters
And on
JOHN
Man
Son,
his Breift-bane brak a Tree.
wore
a Girdle about his Midle,
Imbroidcrd owre with burning Gold,
Befpangled with the fame Mettle,
Maifl beautifull was to behold.
Ther
Johme
Armftfang*
Thcr hang nine Targats
And
What
ilk
at Jvkriys
19 j
Hat,
an worth Three hundred Pound,
zuants that
Knave
that a King fuld haif$
But the Sword of Honour and the Crown*
quhair gat thou
That
1 gat
blink fae
them
Quher,
Had
I
my
Targats, Johnie,
in the Field fechting,
cruel King,
Horfe and
And Ryding
It
thefe
brawly abune thy Brie ?
as I
fould haif bene
thou durft not ber
my
Harnefs gude,
wont
to be,
tald this
hundred Zeir,
The Meiting of my King and me.
God
be withee, Kirfly,
tang
live
my
Brither,
thou Laird of Manger toun
5
Lang mayft thou dwell on the Border-Syde,
Or
thou
And God
fe
thy Brither ryde up and doun.
be withee, Kirfly 3
Quhair thou
But and thou
Thy
fits
my
Son,
on thy Nurfes Knee $
live this
Hundred
Zeir,
Fathers better thoult never be.
)
Johnie
196
FarwEIL, my bonny
Armfirang,
Gilnockhall,
Quhair on £s£-fyde thou {landed
Gif I had
I
lived but feven
wald haif
gilt
John murdred was
And
thee
Zeirs maira
round about.
at Carlinrigg3
galant
all his
Companies
But Scotland^ Heart was never
To
fee fae
Because
mony
ftout3
brave
Men
fae
wac,
die.
they favd their Country deir
Frae Englifimen; nane were fae bauld,
Quhyle Johnie
livd
Nane of them
on the Border -fyde,
durft
cum
neir his Hald,
Of
i
Of heidftrang
Advyfd
^v
^^
Gallants
all, I
Hank
cry and
in Hand.
call,
Keip Strenth, quhyle that ze haif
Repent ze
Frae
fall,
Tyme
quhan ze are
Dub
the
With wanton Zouth
With Courage
be
hie
on
at Lift,
Zour Mouth
Zour Mynd
Langer
at
folift
lefts
be cowth,
loft;
cum
Beware drink not owre
but
it.
thrall,
lavit.
tho' ze
Suppofe great Drouth
Tak
command^
Zoiitb ill to
keip a
to
97
in zour
Mouth;
aft.
fuppofe ze
thrift,
Leafure cule,
weil to
refill,
Zcir than Zule,
"mi
Tho
Advyce
ip 8
Tho
ze ryd
With
even a
is
a headftrong Zouth,
not owrc aft
into the Reift,
Stuff uncoft, fet
Enonch
In
caft
faft,
Zour Speir
to
upon
loft,
k
l
Feift.
|
Cupids Grace fuppofe ze trace,
Thinkand zour
2c may
And
Frae
fae
Tyme
Ze tyne
Frae
all
}
ze ftank into the Bank,
cumis in Play
5
Thank, Man, hald a Hank,
the
be paft away.
thou rin tume, as I prefumc,
Thou
Thee
abune,
Daweis Ace,
be lotchit fune.
And Drypoynt
Or
fell
percafe call
to
has baith Skaith and Scorn,
confume with Fyre allume.
That Bourd may be forborn.
Far in that Play,
Gude
Will
is
I futhly fay,
not
alio wit
j
j
Gifthou nocht may, gae Way, gaeWay,
.
Then
art
thou
all
forhowit.
CON'
Advyce
a headftrong Zouth.
to
Considdekance
Frae thou be bair
that Semblance,
At
Quhen
pithles
has
199
no Luvance,
thaiirben,
is
no
Plefance,
grows thy Pen.
has done thy Det abune,
Quhen thou
Forfochten in the Feild,
Scho
will fay, fune get thee
Adieu, baith Speir and
Frae
inlaiks to lay
thou
Frae Hyne,
Than
thy
my
Roum
That Solace
Son,
To
tar
That
is
and
is
Sic
tig,
abune to
big,
ligj
to ceife
fyn Grace to thig,
bewar, hald the on
far,
Chafwair for to prys,
tig
It
takes
a pityous Preis.
Therfore
To
Straiks,
an uther
vaiks,
Tyme
in
on
ad'tew,
to perfue.
Quhyle Brauns are
Gude
an Spune.
Sheild.
and
is ill
tar,
then get the War.,
Merchandyfe.
&
4
,
Mak
200
Mak
Advyce
a headftrong Zoutb*
to
thou nae Vant, owre
aft
tohant
In Places dern thair doun,
Frae
Tyme
thou want, that Stuff
To borrow
Few
in the
Honour wins
For fhuiting
Out of xour
They
In Tyme
Ufenot
let
fcant
Toun.
into that Innsa
at the Schells,
Shins the Subfhnce rins,
no Genzell
get
is
Ells.
be, I counfell thee,
that ofrerand Stok;
Q.i!ienthee they fee, they bleirthync Ee
5
And mak
Tho
at
Mok.
thee a
thou fuppofe haif
I red thee for the
at
thy Chois,
Nains
;
Keip Stuff in Pofe, tyne not thy
r
Wait not
Frae
Tyme
all
hois,j
in that wains.
fchq fee under thyne Ee,
The Brawn away
it
munts:
Thy Game and Gk^ gains
Thou maun
let
be
fie
nocht for thee
Hunts.
Fa.
as
Advyce
F r a E thou
To
a headftrong Zouth.
to
201
luke cheft, adieu that Faift,
hunt into that Schaw,
that Beift at thy requeift,
Quhen on
Thy
Kennets will not kaw.
Within
And
that Stoup
Wirdis
And makes
Therfore
rin
fraeTymethou fowp,
be fweir,
a Stop,
Adieu the
To
to
when
they fould
ThrifTil deir.
albeit
owre
Hounds
thy
Owre
haif fpei4
aft let be,
In thy maifl Neid fometyme
They
hop3
will rebuted be
aft to hourid in
Thou maytak up
bot) Dreid,
j
uncouth Ground,
unbatit:
Therfore had bound thocht Icho be found
c
Or
dreid thy
Scho
is
not
ill
Dogs be
that fitteth
Perfewed in the
That
flaitit.
ftill,
Sait,
Beift fcho will give thee thy
Till
thou be even Chakmaic,
fill,
y
Sup,
202
Advyce
to
a headfirong Zouth.
Suppofe thou range owre
And
Still
all the-
feikbaith Syke and
will fcho
Grange,
Sewch;
menge, and make
it
ftrenge
Andfgive thee even eneuch.
Therwith
advyfe, fuppofe fcho ryfe
3
Laich underneth thy Fute;
But be thou wyfe, fcho will furpfyfe
Thy Hounds and them
In
Tyme
I counfell thee,
111 is
the
Syne
Gyde
To
hunt
will
it
at
gude Bruther
that
racklefs
Hunters,
Ze
rebute.
abyde, the Feilds are wyde,
is
Sot Tyde,
fails
the Ruther.
adieu, gif ze perfuc
evry Beift,
rew, ther
is
anew,
Thairto haif ze no Hafte.
With an
O and an
Qiihcn befl
is
I,
ze Hunters
Play, pafs
Or
all
and Sum,
hame away,
Dreid,
War
after
cum.
Quod Balnevis.
The
203
The
Luvair that fain wad,
blate
but fears
to fpeik.
t
MY
Heart
loft
is
only for Luve of one,
For Laik of Speich, and
I
dare nor fpeik
my
Nor wat
how my
Speik
not
I till hir
And denzie
Then
for Shamefulnefs,
Purpofe to propone,
Purpofe
I fall drefs j
and fcho be mercylefs,
not again to fpeik to me,
.haif I tint
An unfped
all
my
Speiking mair and
left,
Speich had better unfpoken be.
II.
I
dar not fpeik for Dreid that fcho difpyt]
My
And
rural
fpeik
I
Terms, and
not unto
fay I
do but
my Lady
raif,
quhyte,
YTithouten -Speich hir Luve I cannot haif:
But gif
I
quhat- can I of hir craif >
{pare to fpeik for laik of Eloquence
O
I
I fpeik,
couth fcho without Speich
wald nochc
my
Synis perfaif,
fpeik to hir Magnificens.
III.
Fain
204
Blate Luvair.
Sthe
ill.
Fain wald
I fpeik,
gif Speiking michc avail,
Gif fcho for Speich wald
fpeik to
I fpare to fpeik for fpilling of
Then
To
How
Be
Zit
I
my
fpeik
fall
it
my
me
again:
Tale,
fpeiking fpendit haif in vain
and fpeid not
I fpeik? I
gude or
fall I fpeik,
ill,
is
:
an leftand Pain.
dare not fpeik for Dreid*,
me
fcho fpeiks to
unfpoken can nocht
again,
fpeido
IV.
Qn hat
To
Then
fall I
hir that
fpeik, fen I
is
maun
fpeik
on
forfs
o£ Speich maift eloquent?
I fall fpeijc,
how
that
my
Corfs
cairful
,
Throw laik of Speich tholes Day and Hour Torment
Caufe I cannot
tell
hir
my
hail Intent,
For want of Speich and ornatTermis
plain,
Befeiking hir with fpeiking reverent,
Jhat fcho wald
fpeik to comfort
me
again,
guod Stewart.
i
uy e
10$
LWE
a Leveler,
i.
L
Uve
pryfis,
The
And of
As
Gentill
and the Sempill
Free-will gives
bafer
Men
all,
Warefon,
Fortune chances to befall
For Luve maks
To
bot Cornparifon,
5
nobill Ladyis thrall
of Birth and Bludc,
Sae Luve gars fobir
Find Favour with grk
Women
Men
fmali
of Glide.
II.
Fxrm
Luve
Of rich
for Favour, Feir or Feid,
nor pure to fpeik fuld
fpairj
For Luve to Hienes hes nae Heid,
Nor
lichrlys
But puts
all
Lawlines ane Hair,
Perfons in compair
j
This Proverb plainly for to pruvc,
That
Men
Ar cumd
h*i
f
and
Women,
Adam
lefs
and mair,
and of Eve,
III.
Sai
Lime a
2o
Leveler.
III.
Sae
thocht
And
Scho
I
fuld
my
As Duke
For
my
Liking wer a Lady.,
nae Lord,
nocht the
zit
\efs3
Service fynd als redy,
to Dutches docht
him
drefs$
expr efs,
as hie Princely Luve.
Is to haif Soverenitie,
Sae Service cums of Simpilnefs,
And
Luve of law Degrie.
lieleft
IV.
So
A
A
no Leid
Luvaris Lair
Lord
Lady
Ane
als
for
Luve
to tak
proper Page hir
For quhy,
als
Tyme
bene
as bricht
As SHver wrocht
And
fuld Iak^
to luve a fempill Lafs,
in all
to pafs;
birniit Brafs^
Devyce,
gude drinking out of Glafs
As Gold, thocht Gold
gife gritter Pryce.
The
m«i
2.0 7
The Floure of Womanheld.
i.
r-ipHou Well of Vertew,
And
Floure of Womanheicl,
Patronefs of hevinly Patiens,
Tady of Lawty
baith in
Word
and Deid,
Sobir, ferene, full of meik Eloquens,
I
Baith gude and fair:
To
recommend,
done
My
as I haif
fempill Heart for
now
zour Magnificens
befoir,
and evirmoir.
II.
For
evirmoir
I fall
zou Service mak,
Sen, as befoir, into
Sen
firfl I
All
knew zour
my Mynd
I
made,
Ladyfchip, bot Lak,
Be w tie, Zouth and Womanheid ze had,
Wnhouten Reft my Heart couth not
Thus am
I zours,
Commandit
evade.
and ay fenfyne haif bene
therto by zour
twa
fair
Ene.
III.
wtn^
Zour
20 8
ttbe Flour e of
Womanbeid.
III.
2 our
twa
fair
Zour twa
Zour twa
fair
fair
Zour twa
fair
links
him
me
Ene maks
Ene
Ene
Wyt
beir the
Ze
Ze
beir the
of
comforting,
all
brieht ze beir the
Name
beir the
grit
my Wo,
will not ane Heart
iv.
Ze
to fing,
to lich alfo,
that gets a Sicht
fait
Of every Vertew
is
aft fyis
me
Ene maks me
Zour twa
But
Ene maks
fair
•
of Gentilnefs of Elude,
Name,
that
Name, ze
mony
for ze dies,
are baith fair
and gude,'
Ze
beir the
Name
beir the
Name, Fortune and zou
beir the
Name
go,
Name.
Ze
Ze
let
of them,
of every Sweit can
pleis,
agreis,
of Lands of lenth and
The Well of Vertew and
breid,
Floure of Womanheid,
Donald
209
WW**************************
Donald Owyrs Epitaph*
t N Vyce maift
vicious
he
excells,
That with the Vyce of Treafoun mells3
Thocht he Rcmiflion
Haif
for ProdiflioiL,
Schame and
Ay
Sufpiflion
with him dwells,
II-
He
The
J
evir odious as ane
Fait fae filthy
is
Howie,
and
foul,
Horrible to Nature
Is ane Traytour,
As Feynd
in Frater
Undir a Coul.
IIL:Quha
Donald Owyrs Epitaph,
21 o
III.
Qxjha
Upoa
is
a Traytour or a Theifj
turns the Mifchesfj
hiiaafell
His fraudfull Wylis
Himfcll begylis 3
As
in the Ylis
Is
now
a Preif.
IV.
The
Mair
feltffrong Traytour
Falfet
Donald Ozvyry
had nor udir four,
Round
In
and
Ylis
Seis
his Suplies,
On
Gallow Treis
Zit dois he glowir.
V.
Fa l set nae
Feit hes,
nor Defens
Be Pra&ick, Powir nor
Thocht
it
Be fmoird
God
PufTiens,
frae Licht
frae Sicht,
fchawis the Richt
With
foir
Vengens,
VI.
Of
>^<^,
Donald Owyrs Epitaph.
zii
VI.
Of
the
Kynde,
fals
Fox
Theif and Traytour,
ilka
is
diflimulator
After Refpyte
To mak
Defpyte,
Mair Appytyte
He
has of Nature.
VII.
Wer
Tod
the
And Grace him
given as
Wer
All
tane a thoufand Faud,
aft
for Fraud 5
he on Plane,
wer
in vain,
Frae Henns again
Micht nane him had.
VIII.
The
Murtherer ay Murther mais,
And
ay
he be
till
flane
he
flays $
Wyvis thus mak Mokks
Spynand on Roks.
Ay
rynnsthe Fox
Quhyle
lie
Fute hesv
d^ %
€ O M*
ihe
212
Solfequiurrt.
M 106^06906900100006 \
COMPARISON E.
fnp
He
Bramble growis, althocht
Mountane Cederis
Qiihylis
fleous
And myld
be obfcure,
it
tholes the
bou-
Winds,
Plebyan
Spirits
may
Quhylis michty Tempeftis
leif fecure,
tofs
Imperial
Mynds-
The Solfequium,. or the Lover com
pairing himfelf to Sun-FlowirJ.
T!
L
TT
Yk
dum
as the
.
Solfequium with Cair owrecuil
Dois forrow, quhenthe Sun gois out of Sich
Hings doun
his
Heid, and droupis as deid, and wi
not fpreid 3
But
lukis his Levis
Till fulifch
To
purge the Chriftal Skyis, and
Birds in thair
And
throw Langour
all
the Nich
Phaeton aryfe with Quhip in
Bower wait on
to thair King ane glade
Frae than that Flowir
lifts
that
Hand
licht the
Lam
Hour,
Gudemorrow
giyei
not to lour,
Lcivs.
But lauchs on Phebm lowfing out his
It.
Sw,
V^fir
the tSolfeqimm.
2.1%
II.
|>wY
me, except I be quhair
ftands with
My Lamp
my
of Licht,
my
Lady and
I
may
fe
Luve,
Frae fcho depairts, a thoufand Dairts in findry Airts
Thirle thruch
My
my
Countenance
And Howp
I die, I
my
inward Greif,
almaift difpairs to find Releif.
dwyne, Play
on every Thing
I loth
me
dois
I revive
pyne,
I hike, allace
myne upon me
Till Titian
That
heavy Heart, bot Reft or Ruve3
declairs
!
fchyne,
thruch Favour of hir Face.
III.
Frae
fcho appeir, into hir Sphere begins to cleir^
The Dawing of my
lang defyrit Day,
Then Courage cryis on Howp
The noyfum Nicht of
No
[
Noyis, frae
But on
my
I
quhen he
Abfens went away
awalke, can
me
impefche,
ftaitly Stalk I flurifche frefche 3
I fpring, I fprout,
My
to ryfe,
my
Leivs ly out,
Collour changis in ane hairtium
Na
mair
I -lout,
As glad of
hir for
Hew 5
but ftand up £loi%
quhome
I
only grew.
efpyis
s
Sfbe Solfequium.
214
IV.
O
happy Day
Thy
Of me
My
!
go not away, Apollo
flay
Chair frae going doun unto the Weft,
mak
thou
thy Zodiak, that
Plefour to behald
me
quhome
Thy
Prefens
Thy
Abfens lykways fchoris to cut
reftoris to
I
I
may
tak
luve beft:
Lyfe from Deth,
my
Brethj
I wifs in vain thee to remain,
Sen primum mobile fays
At
leift
thy
Wane
me
always nay,
bring fune again,
Fareweil with Patiens per Forfs
till
Day.
Montgomir y«
M
The
Hfmm
21$
7£*
ttt Eil
is
Zea
Be Grace
Efchew
Pschalme.
Fir/?
Man,
the
than,
blifit
that can
Counfale and the godlefs Gaits,
ill
Quha
walks not in
The Way of Sin,
Nor
To
fit
dois begin
with Mokkaris in thair fchaniefull
But in
Salts,
Jehovahs Law
Delyts aricht,
And
ftudys
Baith
That
That
Man
plantit
to
it
knaw
Day and
fall
Nicht.
be lykc to ane Tre
by the ryning River grows,
Quhilk Fruit dois beir in
Qiihais Leivis
tiffs
fall
Tyme
nevir fade, nor
<m
a.
of Zeir,
Rute unlowfc.
If.
His
2i
*the Firft Pfchalme,
u.
His Anions
Ay
So
To
wicket
profper
fall
not
Menj
all
fall:
fall
but as the Calf and Sand,
Quhilk Day by Day
Winds dry ve away
:
Thairfore I fay
The
wicket in thair Jugment
Nor
Sinners
Qu-home
cum
God
fall
not {land,
nae mair,
difdains,
In the Aflembly quhair
The
Juft remains.
For quhy? The
He knaws
But godles
Sail
Lord
quha
beirs Record.
the richteous Converfation ay,
Gaits.,
quhilk he fo haits„
quickly perreifs, and bot Dout decay.
Tht
211
Pschalme.
The Twenty third
i.
Lord
p-j-^HE
knaw
I
An Hird
to
maifl hie,
will be
me,
I cannot lang haif Strefs, nor ftand in
He maks my
Ncidj
Lair,
la FeUds maift
fair,
Qiihair I bot cair,
Repofing
'•
at
He
my
Pleafure fafely feid.
fweitly
To
me
'
conroyis
pleifand Springs,
Qiihair naething
me anoyis,
But Pleafour brings:
He
brings
my Mynd,
That
Forfs or Feir jpf Fac
And
for his
He dois me
Name
fit
to
cannot
leid in perfyt
he will
me
fie
me
Kynd 5
grieve
Freid,
ncvir leivc.
ILThocht
/
ziS
twenty third Pfcbalme.
tfhe
II.
Thocht
Ilk
I
wald
ftray,
Day by Day,
In deidly
Way,
Zit will I not difpah•, I feir
none
ul
5
For quhy thy Grace,
In every Place,
me
Dois
Thy
hnbrace,
rod and Shiphirds Cruke comfort
'
In difpyt
My
Thou
of
Tabill
balmis
My
my
me
ftill,
Foes,
grows,
my
Heid with Joy,
Cup owreflows.
Kyndnefs and Grace, Mercy and Peicc,
Sail
follow
me
for all
And me convoy
In Hevin, quhair
I
fall
my
wretched Days,
to endlefs
Joy
be with thee always.
Thefe two Pfihalmes quod
Montgomery
v
219
^f ^Difcripion of Tedder Coffes
their having no Regard to Honefty
in
their Vocation,
i.
yT
-*
is
my
Purpofe to difcryve
This holy perfyte Genologic
Of
Pedder Knaves fupcrlatyve,
Pretendand to Authoritie,
That wate ofnocht but Beggartic:
Ze Burges Sons, prevene
That wald
And
baneifs
thir
Louns,
diftroy Mobilities
it all
Borrows Towns.
II.
They
Ane
Ay
are declarit in feven Parts,
ftroppit
fornand
To
all
Coffe,quhen he begins,
and findry Arts 3
buy up Hens reidwod he
Syne locks them
Waiting a Derth,
rins
5
up into his Inns,
%i
fells
their Eggs,
Regretandly on them he winns,
And
fecondly his Meit he beggs.
III.Ani
/
A Dijcription df Pedder
22o
Coffes.
III.
Ane
Swyngeor CofFe amangft the Wyves,
In Landwart dwells with
Exponand
to
them auld
Meins,
fabtile
Saints Lives,
And
fains
Like
Rome -rakers with awflerne
them fyne with Deid Mens, Bainss
Speikand Cur-lyke
ilk
an
till
Grains,
uther^
-
Peipand puirly with pityous Manes,
Lyke
fenzeit
Symmie and
his
Brother.
IV.
Thir.
And
With
fune.
Thretiefum about a Pack,
bair
blew Bonnets and hobeld Shunc,
And Beir Bannocks
The
owre
curriih Coffes that fails
with them they tak,
fchamlefs Shrews,
God
gie
them
1
lak,
At Nune quhen Merchants make guid Cheir,
Steil
doun and
ly
behind a Sack,
Drinkand but Dreggs and barmy Beir.
v.
Knavat i £ k
Quhen he
Coffe, miskens himfell,
gets
on
a furrit
Gfunj
But Lucifer the Laird of Hell,
Is
not kfs haly than that Loun
j
A Difcription ofPedder
As he cumes brankand throw
With
his Keis clinkand
That Calf clovin
Will
wed nane
on
his
flitted fleid
Coffes.
the
221
Toun,
Arme,
Cuftrounj
but a Burges Bairn.
IV.
Ane
Dyvour
Worry-Hen,
Coffe, that
Diftroys the Honnour of our Nation,
Taks Guids a
And
frift
frae fremit
breaks with them
Men,
his Obligation^
Quhilks dbis our Merchants Defamation,
They
are reprievt for that Regratour j.
we
Therfore
give our Declaration
and draw that
To hang
common Tray tour,
VII.
A
curloreous Coffe, that Hege-Scraper,
He
fits
at
hame quhen
ThatPeddeL- Brybour
He
tells
them
ilk
that they bake 5
that Sheip-keipar,
ane Cake by Cake,
Syne Locks them up, and
Betwixt
his
Doublet and
taks a Faik
his Jacket,
1
And
eits
them
in the Buith that Smaik,
Rakket.
IH than he mort into a
^^ A
A
222
Difcription ofPedder Coffes.
vnr.
A
Codroch Coffe, he
And
But
hes nae
lives lyker
Hap
trefts
With
Falflieid ever
And
never
ftill
his
owre
rich,
Gude
to fpend>
ony wareit Wretch,
And
Proceiding
is
till
take an
End,
him defend,
does
in Avarice,
nae gudc
leaves his Saul
But walks a wilfome
Way
Commend,
I wifs
IX.
I
zou exhort
And
Unto
all
that this heir,
reids this Bill,
That he would give
And
And
ze wald
the Provoir, and
banifh
him
fchaw
thir Coffes
the
Law,
them the Burges Raw;
to the Shoe-ftreit gar
Syne cut
it
require,
their
Lugs
that
them
ften,
we may knaw
Thir Peddcr Knaifs be Burges Men.
.§god
Lindsay
h.
22$
-kkkk-kkkk k-kkk-kkkk -kkk-kkkk-kkkkk-k-ki
Wbe fyne Advyce Jock gied
his
Ded,
Zeil ken qtihen ze thir Lynes half red.
wOCK,
quod
his
Ded, quhat will meeify make?
J With {landing my
My
Lying
My
My
Legs tyre, and quhen I kneil
Kneis are pynd, ganging gars
irks
my
Back, and gif
Hipps ar hurt, and
Elbuck fmarts.
—«
my
Feit ake>
I fit I feil
lein I
Quod
neir fae wcil,
Jock 3 Pain
Since all thefe eife not, befi e\n hing
to
ex$tg
a quhyle*
ANSWER.
-r Thank ze, Jock9 for zour Adyce,
My
kyndly Cock, I thank ze, JockJ'
Weil have z« fpoke and councild nycej
1
thank ze3 Jock 3 for zoar Advycc.
The
j
224
The Ballat of the
Reid-Squait
fought on the 7th July 15-76.
I.
/\N
July feventh, the Suthe to fay,
^'^
At the Reid-Squair the Try ft was
Our Wardens
And
they
I'll
met:
neir forzet,
fure fae feird, and then fae fain,
They came
JiVill
Day
.
Day,
as they promift, fae they
Allace! that
Was
afrixt the
fet,
nevir
ther Juftice for to get,
grdn
to
cum
again.
II.
CARMICHAELL
He
And
caufit the
Countrey to convene,
the Laird Watt> that worthy
Brocht in
his
Eliots
:
to that ay haif bene
hardy Houfe, but not a
The
Man,
Surname weil be fene
The Armjlrangs
A
was our Warden then,
Honours
Brouchc in the Uif of
hail
j
to mentain,
•
Liddifdail..
III.
Them
W<
the Ballot of the Reid-Squair.
III.
Then
Twidail came to with Speid,
The
Scherif brocht the Douglas doun,
With Cranftanc, Gladfiane3 gude
at
Neid,
Baith Rewls-Watter and Hawick-Toun.
JBeangeddert bauldly
With
the Trumbulls ftrang and ftout$
all
The
maid him boun,
Kutherfuirds, with grit
Renoun,
Convoyit the Toun of Jedbruch out.
IV.
With
uther Clarins I can nocht
tell,
Bccaufe our Wairning was nocht
Be
out Folk hes tane the
this
And
We
And
It
With
owre
the Brae,
Sr George Fojier was thair Gyde,
greivt
He
breifting
Fyftenc hundrid
Becaufe
byde:
doun the uther Sydc,
And faw cum
With
Fell,
plantit Pallions thair to
lukit
wyde3
him
Sr
fair
Men
and mae.
V.
that Day
John Hlnrome of
we wer
not
Men
I
trow,
Schiffydehoufe3
enow,
counted hs not worth a Soufes
22$
&e
i26
Baliat of the Reid-Squarf.
Sr George was gentill, meik and doufe,
But he was
But
for
zit,
He rewd
hail,
and hct
j
Cracking croufc,
all his
the Raid
Fyre
as
of the
Reid-fqttyre.
VI.
To
Men
with proud
dell
For ether ze maun
Gr
els
nae Anfwer
But play the
It
Had
or
ficht
mak
flie,
again,
and
Beiit,
but Pain,
is
let
him
be.
was nae Wondir tho he was
lyndall, Kedfdaile at his
With
Cuckfdaile, Gladfdaile
hie,
Hand,
on
the Lie,
Auld Hebfrime and Northumberland,
VII.
Zit was
our Meiting. meik enough.,
Begun with Murines and Mows,
And
at the
The
And fum
Callit in
I
Braeabune
Clerk
fat
for
doun
the
Heugh
to call the
Ky and fum
Rowsy-
for Ewis^
of Dandrie, Hob and Jock,
faw cum merching owre the Knows,
Fyve hundred lennkks
in a Flock.
VIII.
With
e
%he Ballot of the Reid-Squair.
.
227
VIII.
With
Jack and Speir, and Bo wis
And
bent3
all
warlick Weaponis at thair Will 5
Howbeit we wcr not weil content,
my Trowth wc
Zit be
Sum
zeid to drink, and
And fum
to Cairds .and
Quhyle on ane
And
feird
nae
fum
ftude
111:
ftill,
Dyce them fped,
Farftein they fyld a
he was Fugitive that
Bill,'
fled.
IX.
CARMICHAELL
And
The
bad them fpeik out
cloke nae Caufe for
him
uther anfwering
III
plainly,
nor Gude,
full. vainly,
Begouth to reckon Kin and Blude.
He
raife
and raxd him quhair he fhide,
And bad him match him with
Then
And
Marrows
they lute aff a Flicht of Arrows.
Then
And
A
his
Tyndall hard thefe Refouns rude,
X.
was ther nocht but
ilka
Man
pullit
Bow
and Speir,
out ane Brand,
Scbaften and a Tennick their,
Gude S^mmingtoun was
P
%
flain frae
Hand,
The
Stbe Ballat of the Reid-Squair.
22$
Hie
on uther
Scotifmen cryd
Tyme
Frae
Quhat
to ftand,
they faw John Robfon flain:
The Kings Command
fuld they cry!
Culd caufc nae Cowards turn
again.
XL
Up
Qyhilk wald not be for
Quhat
we do
fuld
Fyve thoufand
Then
And
with
Men
we had
ther
Wart not
the grit
all
fie
a
his Boift,
Number,
into ane Hoift?
Heririe Purdie
verie narrowlie
And
Cumber,
the Laird to red the
raife
proud hes
coft^
had mifcheifd him.
our Warden
God
loft,
he releivd him.
j
XII.
Ane
uther throw the Breiks
Quhyle
flatlines to
Then thocht
Into
my
I,
the
we had
Heart
it
him
loft
him
laid
;
fell
thair,
ftruk a Knell;
Zit up he raife, the Truth to
And
bair,
Ground he
about him Dunts
full
tell,
dour,
His Horfemcn they faucht flout and
And
fuide'
about him
{hell,
in the Stour.
XIIL
Tmrf
\*
Battat of the Reid-Squair.
<ithe
239
XIII.
Then
Slogan with ane Schouf,
raifd the
Fy, Tyndall to
I
it,
Jedbrugh heir
trow he was not half
But anes
Stomak was a
his
With Gun and
He
micht
fe
(jenzie.
mony
:
fae flout,
Steir,
Bow
aad Speir,
Crown,
a crackit
But up amang xht Merchant Gcir
The
Buflie
The
wer
we were down.
XIV.
Swallow-tail frae Teckles flew,
Fyve hundred
But
as
we
And
had
flain into
fchot
among them
With Help of G o d
Frae
Tyme
the Flicht,
anew,
Peftellets
the
as
we
Game
micht.
gade
the foremofl of them
Hynd owre
the
Know, without
mony
They ran with
richt,
fellj
Gude-niclu^
a Schout and Zell.
XV.
And
after they
Zit Tyndall
And
had turned Badcs,
Men
they turnd again,
had not bene the Merchant Packs,
There had bene mae of Scotland
$3
flain;
Sj
z$o
£he
Battat of the Reid-Squain
But J e s u gif the Folk was
To
fain
put the Buffing on thair Theis,
And
with
fae they fled
Doun owre
all thair
.
Main,
the Brae lyke clogged Beis.
XVI.
Sr
was
Irancls Ruffell tane
And
hurt, as
we
heir
/
thair,
Men
reherfe
Proud Wall'mgtoun was woundit
Albeit he
was a Fennlck
fair5
ferfs.
But gif ze wald a Souldier ferche
Amang them
Was nane
all
fae
As Colingwood
was tane
that Nicht,
wordie of our Verfe
that courteous Knicht."
XVII.
2un G
A
Henrie skapit
Hame,
is
'
hurt,
*
Souldier fchot
him with
Scotland has Caufe to
mak
Bow,
grit Sturt,
For laiming of the Laird of
The
a
Mow,
Laird Watt did weil indeid,
His Friends ftude ftoudy by himfell,
With
litlc
Gladjlane,
gude in Neid,
For Gretein kend not Gude be
111.
XVIII. Ti
231
ghe Ballat of the Reid-Squair.
XVIII.
The
Schriff wantit not Gude-wil!,
Howbeit he micht not
ficht fae faft:
Beanjeadart, Hundlte and Hunthill,
Three, on they
laid weil at the
laft-,
Excpt the Horfe-rnen of the Gairdj
If I could put
Nane
Nor
But
Men
to Avail,
out for thair Laird
?
ftoutlier ftude
did the Lads of.Liddifdail.
litle
XIX.
we thair,
Harnife had
But auld Badrule had on a Jack,
And
all
Gude
Ederjlane
With
zou
did richt weil, I
With
declair,
the Trumbulls at his Back*
was not
to lack,
Klrktoun, Newtoun, Nobill-rr.en
Thir
is
all
s
the Specials I haif fpak,
Forby them that
I
could nocht ken.
XX.
Qu h a did
We neid
invent that
nocht
For Sr John
Maid
Day of
feir to find
Play,
him
fune>
Tofter 3 I dare weil fay,
us that
noyfome Afternime
'
•
J
P. 4
Not
Not
that I fpeik preceifly out,
That he fuppofd
wald be
it
Perrill,
But Pryde and breaking out, but Dour,
Gart Tyndall Lads begin the Quarrell.
THE
Eagle and Robin Red-breifl.
»np
He
Prince of
all
the fcthert Kynd,
That with fpred Wings out
And
To
tours far out of
humane
fleis
the
Wind^
Sicht
view the fchynand Orb of Licht
This Ryall Blrd 3 tho braif and great.
And
armit ilrang for {tern Debait,
Nae Tyrant
Aftymes to
Ane
To
is
but condefcends
treit infcriour Friends.
Day
at his
his hie Palace
The
That
Courtiers of
Command
did flock
on a Rock,
ilk
various-
Syze
fwiftly fwim, in Chriftal Skyis;
Thither
v
tfhe Eagle and
Robin Red-bmft.
233
doup,
.Thither the valiant Ttrfals
heir rapacious Corbies croup,
And
Gleds and
With greidy
And dinfome
Proud
flie
Gormahs,
Dmws ;
Pyis and clatterin
Pecocks,
and a hundred mae,
Brufcht up thair Pens that folemn Day,
Bowd
Me in
A
Tyme
quhyle
Fawn,
zung,
Boiir-trec fung.
fang the Eagles Ryall Lyne,
His pcrfihg Ee
To
a
Lamia drawn,
drinking Blude frae
Hard by upon a
on
feifting
tuneful! Robin trig and
He
Lord,
tuke thair Places at his Borde.
Then
And
my
fubmiflive to
firft
fway
Quha
out-
arid
owre
Richt divyne,
the fetherit
dreid his martial
Bill
Thrang3
and fang:
His Flicht fublime, and Eild rcnewit,
His
In
Mynd
fafter
Mair klc
with Clemencie endewitj
Notes he 6ng
his
Luve,
his beiring Bolts for
Jove.
The
ê Eagle and Robin Red-breift,
234
The
The
Monarch Bird with
chaunting
Calk up
a
litil
BIythnefs hard
Silvan Bard,
Buzart, quha was than
His Favourite and Chamberlane.
Swith to
And
to
my
Treafury, quod he,
zon canty Robin
gie
As mekle of our currant Geir
As may mentain him throw
the Zeir j
We
can weil fpairt, and
He
bad, and furth the Judas flew,
its
his
Straight to the Brcnch quhair
Rohm
And
with a wickit lieand Tung,
Said,
-Ah! ze fing
Ze
haif deivt our
fae dull
and
Due,
fung,
rucir,
Lugs mair than cnuch,
His Majefiie hes a nyfe Eir,
And
nae mair of zour Stuff can heir;
Poke up zour Pypes, be nae mair fene
<At Court, I
He
warn ze
as a Frein.
fpak, quhyle Robinh fwelling Breift,
And drouping Wings
his Greif,
the Eagle and Kohin Red^breift,
[The Teirs ran happing
JGrit
No
doun
his
235
Cheik,
grew his Hairt, he coud nocht fpeik3
for the Tinfell of Rewaird,
But that his Notis met nae Regaird;
Straicht to the
Schaw he fpred
his
Wing 3
Refolvit again nae mair to fing,
Quhair Princelie Bountie
By
fie
Quha
is
fuppreft,
with quhome they ar oppreft,
cannot beir (becaufe they want
That ocht
fuld
it)
be to Merit grantit.
Ar. Scot.
Hay
2$$
&»$§&& >j^&^ M^n&i A^Si^
ii&y 2>i#,
k
tAfi©@"
Tryme go Trix.
i.
'T-'He Paip,
He
that
Paganc
full
of Pryde,
hes us blindit lang.
For quhair the blind the blind dois gyde
3
Na Wonder
thay ga
wrang
Lyke Prinee and King he
Of
all
:
led the
Ring
Iniquitie,
Hay Trix,Tryme go Trix, under the Grene Wod-Trie,
II.
Bot
his
The
Abhominatioun
Lord
hes brocht to Licht,
His Popifche Pryde and thrinfald
Crowne
Almaift hes loft thair Micht.
His Plak Pardounis ar but Lardounis,
Of new
found Vanitie,
Hay Trix, Tryme go
Trix, o>c.
III.
His
sj
Hay
His
2rzx, Stryme go Zrix.
in.
237
Caus to murricy
Cardinallis hes
His Bifchoppis borne aback 5
His Abbotis gat ane uncouth Turne^
Quhen
went
Schavelingis
WitH Burges Wyfis thay
And
Hay
fure better nor
to fack,
led thair Lyvisy
we,
Trix, Try me go Trix, o-c.
IV.
His
Carmelites and j}acobinis>
His Dominiks had
greit
Do5
His Cordeleiris and Augujlims>
Sand
Thay
With
Hay
Stances Ordour to j?
Freiris,
fillic
mony
2eiriss
babling blerit our Ee,
Tryme go Trix 3 &c.
Trix,
V.
The
Sifreris
gray, befoir this Day>
Did crune within
Thay
feit
The
Syne
Hay
ane Freir thair Keyis to beir^
Feind reflave the Fofterj
Mirk
in the
And
thair Cloifter,
kittil
Trix,
wirk,
fa Weill culd
them wantounlie,
Tryme go
&
Trix, e?£.
VI.
Th«
Hay
238
Zrjx, ftryme go £rix«
VI.
The
blind Bifchop he culd nocht preichc,
For playing with the
The
fyllie Freir behuffit
Laffis
j
to fleiche,
For Almous that he afEs;
The Curat
Schame
Hay
Trix,
his
fall
Creid he culd nocht reid,
the Cumpanie,
Tryme go
Trix, o^.
VII.
The
Bifchop wald nocht
wed
The Abbote not perfew
ane,
Thinkand
Ilk
Day
it
ane Wyfe,
was ane lufHe Lyfe,
to have ane
new
ane,
In everie Place ane uncouth Facc5
His Luft to
Hay
Trix,
fatisfie,
Tryme go
Trix, ere.
VIII.
The
Perfoun wald nocht have ahe Hure,
Bot twa, and thay war bony
The
Vicar (thocht he was pure)
Behuiffit to have als
The
Pareis Preii%
He
Bay
polit
Trix,
thame
mony
j
that brutall Beift,
privelie,
Tryme go
Trix, z?c.
IX.
Oi
vi
On
the Mes.
23,9
IX.
Of
Scotland well, the'Freiris of Faill,
lang hes
The Lymraerie
The Monkis of
On
The
And
leftit,
Metros maid gude Kaill
Frydayis, quhen thay
fillie
Nunnis
heifit
keift
taftit;
up
thair Hippis
thair
on
Bunnis5
hie.
Hay Trix/Tryme go Trix, under the Grene Wod-Ti ie.'
*
*
*
On
NaW
He
Man
Quhili he brak his
And
eit
Had
not that
.
Mes.
i.
God
ze not
creat
*
the
.
Try-
*
omnipotent,,
and maid him
fre,"
Commandement,
of the forbiddin Tre;
blifllt
Barne bene borne.
Sin to red res,
lowreis zour Lyves had bene forlorne.
For
all
zour Mes.
.
II*
Sen
ill
Sen we war
Throw
(Saif
to Sin
all
maid
fure,
Xdjimis Inobediencc,
Christ)
thair
Maid
Sacrifice for
Thair
is
was na Creature
our Offence 5
na Sand may fave zour
Saull,
Fra ze tranfgres,
Suppois Sand: Peter and
Had
Sand PauU
baith faid Mes.
III.
Knawing
thair
is
na Chrift bot ane,
Quhilk Rent was on the Rude with Roddis (
Quhy
give ze Glore to Stock and Stane,
In worfchipping of uther Goddis
Thir Idoles that on
Ar
Ze
gat not
}
Alteris ftandis,
Fenzeitnes,
God
amang zour Hahdisy
Mumling zour Mes.
IV.
And
fen na
Sand zour
Perchance ze will
How
may
fpeir at
Saull
me
may
fave,
than,
the Paip thir Pardounis have,
With Power
baith of Beift and
Man?
Thr©^
^
On
Throw
Mes:
the
24
nathing bot ane fenzcit Faith,
For Halynes
Wayis
Inventit
Lyke
thamc
to get
Graith,*
Mes.
as the
V.
Of
Marriage
Thinking
'ze
maid zou
Thraldome
it
quyte,"
to refraine:
Wanting of Wyiffis
is
That Curage micht
incres againej
Thay honny
*
Lippis, zc did perfcw,
Grew
Thinking
Appetyte,
Gall I gcs,
j
was Contritioun trcw
it
To
dance ane Mes.
VI.
Gif God was maid of Bittis of Brcid,
iit
As
zc not ouklie fax or fevin,
it
had bene a mortall Feid,
Quhill ze had almaift heryit Hevin,
Als
mony
Devilis
ze
Quhill Hell
Or
doutles
we
Zou
man
devoir,
grow
;
les,
dar nocht reftoir
to zour
Mes.
<®
VII.
Gil
On
242
the Mes,
VII.
Give God
be
tranfubftantiall
In Breid, with hoc
Quhy war
As
tak
him
Tripairtit
ze
eji
meum,
corpus
fa unnaturall,
in zour Teith
and
fla
him?'
and devydit him
At zour dum Dres,
Bot
God
knawis
how
ze gydit
h;ne|
Mumling zour Mes.
VIII.
Ze
Tuke
partit
with
Dame
Povertie,
Propeftic to be zour
Wyfe,
Fra Charitie and Chaftitie,
With
Licharie ze led zour Lyfej
That
raifk the
2
Mother of tylifcheify
Zour Gredynes,
Beleving ay to get Releif
For faying Mes.
IX.
O
Ze
wickit vaine Venerienes,
ar not Saudis (thocht ze
feme haly)
Proude poyfonit Epeeuriens y
Quhilk had na
God bot zour awin
Bejiie
Beleve
•
JBelcve ze
On
the Mes.
Lownis the
Zour
Lor g
243
alio wis
Idilnes,
Lang or the Sweit cum owir zour Browis
For faying Mes.
X.
Had
Zour
not zour
Stepillis
was
felf
begun the Weiris^
had bene ftandand
zic
the flattering of zour Freiri*
That ever gart Sand Frances
Ze grew
flit3
fa fuperftitious
In Wickitnes,
It gart us
grow
j
malicious;
Contrair zour McsJ
XL
Our
Bifchoppis ar degenerate^
Thocht thay be mountit upon
With Huredome
And
For
Mulis,'
clene effeminate,
Freiris oft-tymes previs Fulisj,
duftifit
and bob
Do
at Evin,
fa jncres,
He* drevin fum of them to
For
y
all
Mes.
<8 *
teine,
thair
XII.
Chri|
0®
$44
f he
f®s\
XII.
Christ
kcip
all faithfull
Chriftianfe'
from
perverft Pryde
God
grant thame trew Tntelligens
Of
his
God
Law, Word and
grant shay
Syne
Throw
and
Faith
may
Papiftriej
Veritie
3
Lyfe amend,
thair
Blis pofles,
on
Ghrist
all
that depend,
And nocht on Mes.
XIII.
Sen Mes
nathing
is
ellis
to fay,
Bot ane wickit Inventioun,
Without
Authoritie, or Stay,
Of Scripture,
or Fundatioun
:
Gif Kingis wald Mes to Rome hence dryve
With
Suld be the
Haiftines,
Meane
to have bclyvc
Ane End of Mes.
On
m
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On
s~% F
^^
the
Is
Fyre of Purgatorie,
fals
nocht
is
ane Sponk;
left in
Gedde3 Wayis me,
Thairfoir fayis
Gone
Turgatorie,
Preift, Freir
and Monk.
II.
The
Reik
fa
wounder
dcir thay foldc
'
n
For Money, Gold and Landis,
Quhill have the Riches on the Molde^
Is feafit in thair
Handis.
*
III.
Thay knew
naihing bot Covctice
And Lufe of
And
lat
Of
all
Paramouris,
the Saulis burne and bis
thair Foundatouris.
<©
3
W. A
On
$4.6
Vutgatom*
IV.
At
Corps Pretence thay wald
For
Bot
n*ng,
Rychesj to flokkin the Fyrc:
pure Folk that had nathing
all
Was
skaldit vaine
and
)
*
lyre*.
V.
Zit
fat
they heich in Parliament^
Lykc Lordis of greit
Untill
Hes
now
it
that the
Renowne,
New
Teftament
and thame brocht downe.
VI.
And
Ay
The
thocht thay fufFc at
it,
and blaw
quhill thair Bellyis ryve,
niair
thay blaw,
The mair
it
full weill
dois mifthryve.
thay
knaw
249
<?&»
mi to im ms mm
HARDYKNUTE,
FRAGMENT
I.
qTately ftept
*^ And
ftately ftept
Full Seventy Zeirs he
With
He livit
And
he Weft,
now
skerfs fevin Zeirs
quhen
Wroucht
ay his
He was
had fenea
of Reft.
Britons Breach
Scotland meikle
Sword
Wa^
he Eaft the
of Faith
Wae
:
tauld to their Coft,
their deidly Fac.
U.Hijl
J
%$
Hardyknute,
ll.
Hie on
With
And
a Hill his Caftle ftude,
guidly
j
and Touris a Hicht,
Halls
Chambers
fair to fe,
Quhair he lodgit mony a Knicht.
Dame fae
His
peirlefs anes
and
fair3
For Chaft and Bewtie deimt,
Nae Marrow had
Saif
in
the Land,
all
Eknor the Quene.
III.
Full
Thirtein Sons to
Men
All
himfcho
Jn bluidy Ficht with Sword in
Nyne
Four
To
remain, lang
Han4
bot doubt
loft their Lives
zit
bare,'
of Valour flout;
may
they live
fland by Liege and Land:
Hie was
And
their
hie
Fame,
was
hie
their
was
their
Micht,
Command.
IV.
Great
Their
Her
Luve they bare
Sifter faft
and
to Fairly fair,
deir,
Girdle fhawd her Middle gimp,
And gowden
glift
her Hair.
Quh*$
Hardyknute.
Quhat waefou wae
Waefou
Waefou
I
to
24^
Bewtic bred?
hir
zung and
auld,
trow to Kyth and Kin,
As Story ever
tauld.
V.
The
King of Norfe
in
Summer Tyde,
Puft up with Powir and Micht,
Landed
in fair Scotland the YIc,
With mony
The
a hardy Knicht
Tydings to our gude
Came,
he
as
With noble
Scots
King
Dyne^
fat at
Chiefs in braif Aray,
Drinking the Blude-reid Wyne.
VI.
cc
To
cc
cf
Zour Faes
Full
cc
Horfe, to Horfe,
ftand
me my
glittering Spears
Norfe commands.
Steed
Our gude King
A
Mage
raife
dapple gray^
and cryd,
tmjiier Beajl in all the
A
Liege,
on the Strand,
Twenty thoufand
The King of
"Bring
my Ryal
Land
Scots King nevir feyd.
VII.
J
GQ
2 jo
HardyknuU*
VII.
Go
Page,
little
That
lives
To draw
And
bis
hafie
Cum
Hardyknute,
on Hill fo
hie,
Sword, the Dreid of Faes3
and follow me.
The little Page
Flung by
tell
flew fwift as Dart
Matters Arm,
his
down, enm down Lord Hardyknute,
And
King frae Harm,
rid zour
VIII.
Then
reid, reid
grow
dark-biown Chciks,
his
Sae did his dark-brown
Brow 5
His Luiks grew kene, as they were wont,
In Dangers great to doj
He
hes tane a
And
Horn
as grene as Glaft,
gien five Sounds fae
jhat Treis in grene
Sae loud rang
fhrill,
Wod fchuke
thereat,
ilka Hill.
IX.
His
Sons in manly Sport and Glie,
Had
Quhen
paft that
lo
down
They heard
Summers Morn,
in a graffy Dale,
their Fatheris
Horn,
X.THAX
\
Hardy knute.
That Horn, quod they,
We
And
half other Sport
neir
2$ I
founds in Peace,
byde;
to
fune they heyd them up the Hill,
And
fune were at his Syde.
LATE
late the Zeftrene
To end my lengthned
My Age
]
I we'mdin Peace
Lyfe,
my Arm
micht we'd excufe
Trae manly Teats of Stryfe>
But now that Norfe
Fair Scotland
Its neir
dots
proudly boafi
to inthrall,
be faid of Hardyknute*
He feard
to ficht or fall.
XL
ROBIN
of Rothfay, bend thy Bow>
Thy Arrows fchute fae
Mony a
leil,
comely Countenance
They half turnd
to deidly
Pale
;
Brade Thomas tak ze but zour Lances
Ze
ne'id
Gif ze
nae Weapons mairs
ficht welt as ze did anes
Gainft Weftmorlands firfs Heir,
XII.
t
MAL~
252
Hardyknute.
XII.
MA LC O My
licht
That runs in
Get
of Fute as Stag
Forefl jvyldy
me my Thoufands
Well bred to
Wing me my
My
Thrie of
Sword and
Horfe and Harni/ine
Blade of Mettal
If Faes kend but the
They
Men
Schield:
cleir.
Hand
it
bare,
fune had fled for Feir.
XIII.
FARE WE ILmy
And
Dame foe peirlefs gude%
tuke hir by the
Fairer to
me
in
Hand,
Age zou feim9
Than Maids for Bezvtiefamd:
My
zoungeft Son fall here remain
To guard thefe ftately Towirs,
And Jhut
the Silver Bolt that keips,
Sae fafi zour painted Bowirs.
XIV.
And
firft
And
fcho wet hir comely Cheiks,
then hir Boddice grene,
Hir Silken Cords of Twirtle
Weil
plett
twift,
with Silver fchenej
And
z$%
Hardy knute.
And Apron
fet
with
Of Neidle-wark
Wore by
mony
fae rare,
may
nac Hand, as ze
Saif that
a Dice
of Fairly
guefs,
fair.
XV.
And
he has ridden o wre Muir and MofsV
Owre Hills
and moriy a Glen,
Quhen he came
to'
wounded Knichf
a
Making a heavy Mane j
maun
Here
By
I
maun
lye > here
Treacheries falfe Gyles y
Witlefs 1
was
that
eir
To wicked Womans
gaif Faith
Smyles,
.
Knicht, gin ze were in
my
Bowir,
lean on Silken Seat,
To
My
,,_
v
"'
XVI.
SR
I dye3
Lady is
Gûha
Hir [elf
kyndlie Care
neir
zoud prove,
hend deidly Hate,
wold watch ze
all the
Day^
Hir Maids a deid of Nicht,
'And
Vmly fair
As
zour Heart waldcheir^
fcho (lands in
war
Sichu
XVII.
A
Hardyknute.
254
XVII.
•
r
AR>YSE
zoung Knicht, and mount zour
Full lowns the
Cheis frae
my
Steid^
fhynand Day,
Menzie quhom ze
pleis
To kid ze on the Way,
With Smylefs Luke, and Vifoge waa
The wounded Knicht
kynd
replyd,
Chiftain, zour Intent purjueit
For heir I
maun
abyde:
XVIII.
TO me nae after Bay
Can
eir be
nor Nicht,
five it or fair,
$ut fune beneath fum draping Tree,
Cauld Death fall end
With him nae
my
Care.
Pleiding micht prevail,
Brave Hardyknute in to gain,
With
faireft
Words and Reafon
ftrong,
Strave courteoufly in vain.
XIX.
,
Syne
he has gane
far
Lord Chattans Land
hynd attowre.
fac
wyde,
That Load a worthy Wicht was ay,
Quhen
Faes his Courage feyd;
C£
Hardy knutc.
2jT£
Of Pi&ijh Race by Mothers Syde,
Quhen
Pitts ruld Caledon,
Lord Chattan claimd the princely Maid,
Quhen he
faifc Piclijh
Grown.
XX.
Now
with his
He
and ftalwart
ferfs
Train..,
reicht a ryfing Heicht,
Quhair braid encampit on the Dale,
Morfs Menzie lay in Sicht 5
Zonier
Our
On
my
valiant Sons
and ferfsM
raging Revers wait
the unconquerit Scottifh
fwaird
To try with us thair Pate.
I.
MAK
Orifonsto
Our Sauls upon
Syne braifiy
him that faift
the Rude,
fchaw zour
Veins ar filld
With Caledonian Blude.
Then
furth he
drew
his trufty Glaive,
Quhyle Thoufands
Drawn
And
all
arroiind.
frae their Sheaths glanft in the Sun,
loud the BougiUs found.
Hardy knute.
2$ 6
XXII.
To
join his King adoun the Hill
§P
I» Haft his Merch he made,
Quhyle, playand Pibfochs, Minftfalls meit
Afore him
»
{lately ftrade.
Thryfe ivelcuin
Thy Nations
vahiant Stoup of Weir
Scheild
and Pryde;
Thy King nae Red/on has
Quhen thou
to feir
art be his Syde.
XXIIL
Quhen Bows
were bent and Darts were thrawn,
For thrang fcarce could they
-The Darts clove Arrows
The Arrows
Lang
as they
little
Skaith to
that lang
met,
dart the Trie.
ferfs,'
Man,
But bludy, bludy was the
Or
flie,
did they rage and ficht full
With
?
Field,
,
Day was done.
XXIV.
The
King of Scots that
The War
Drew
that luikt lyke Play,
his braid
Sen Bows
findle bruikd'
Sword, and brake
feiuit
his
Bow,
but Delay
Quoth*
Hardy knute.
Quoth noble Rothfay, Myne
I wate
Haft up
its bleid
my
a
257
Til help,
Skore.
merry Men, eryd the King,
As he rade on before.
XXV.
The
King of Norfe he focht to
With him
But on
A
his
to
Forehead there did
liche
fharp unfonfie Shaft 5
As he
his
Hand
waefo.u
'1
put up to find
The Wound, an Arrow
O
find,
menfe the Faucht,
Chance
!
In midft betwene
kene,
there pinnd his
Hani
his Ene,
XXVI.
REVENGE,
revenge, cryd Rothfays Heirs
Tour Mail-coat fall nocht byde
The Strength and Sharpnefs of
Then
fent
it
my
Darty
throuch his Syde :
Another Arrow weil he markd,
It perfit his
Neck
in twa,
His Hands then quat the
He law
as
Eard did
filver
Reins,
fa.
JJt
tKVfLSAIR
Hardy knute.
2 $%
XXVII.
S A IR
my
hlelds
Liege, fair, fair he blsids.
Again with micht he drew
And
Bow,
Gefture dreid his flurdy
Fafl the braid
Wae
Arrow
he
to the Knicht
ettled
Lament now Quene
Hie Dames
to wail
flew:
ar.
Elgreid,
zour Darlings
Fall,
His Zouth and comely Meid.
XXVIII.
Take
aff',
take off his cojlly Jupe
(Of Gold
weil
was
it
twynd,
Knit lyke the Fowlers Net throuch quhilk
His
fteilly
Harnefs (hynd)
Take, Norfe, that Gift frae me,
Him
venge the Blude
Say, if he face
my
it heirs
and bid
',
bended Bow,
He fare nae Weapon
feirs,
XXIX.
Proud
Norfe with Giant Body
Braid Shoulder and
Cryd, Gjuhair
And feird
is
Arms
1
tall,
ftrong,
Hardylmute fae fa?nd3
at Britains Throne
.Chi
Hardykmite.
Iho Britons tremble at
his
&$$
Namf3
I fune fall make him zvaily
That
eir
my Sword was made faejharp3
Sae [aft his Coat of Mail.
XXX.
That
Brag
him zouthfou Micht
It lent
fm
Heart coud na bydc3
his itout
Hardyknute
Day 3 he
this
:
cryd d
To Scotlands King I hecht,
To lay thee law as Horfes Hufe,
My
Word I mean
Syne with the
He
firft
garrd his
to keip.
Strake eir he ftrake>
Body
bleid.
XXXI.
NORSE
He
Difgracd
That
Then
It
As
enelykegray Gofehawks fhird
now my far famd
is
left
thee
gaif his
Power
Head
a
made him doun
law. as
wyfcL,
with Shame and Spyte;
ficht
Arm
to ftryke;
Blaw
fae fell,
to ftoup 3
he to Ladies
ufit
In courtly Gyfe to lout.
3ft
%
Visit
Hardyknute.
26$
XXXII.
Ful-L func he
His
Bow
Sen Blaws
he marvelld
till
'Norfe ferliet
too as
fe his ftately
Sae fune as
fair.
then on him but darrd
As Touch of T airly
To
bent Body,
rais'd his
eir
fair
fair
as
he
Luke,
he ftrake a Fae^
Sae fune his Lyfe he tuke.
XXXIIL
Quhair
lyke a Fyrc to Hethcr fet,
Bauld Thomas did advance,
A
fturdy Fae with Luke enragd
Up
He
towards him did prance
;
fpurd his Steid throw thickeft Ranks
The hardy Zouth
Quha
to quell
ftude unmufit at his
His Furie to
Approach
repell.
xxxiv.
THA T fchort braibn
Shaft fae meanly
Lukis lyke poor Scotland* Geir,
But- dreidfull feims the rufty Poynt t
And
loud he leuch
in"
Jeir.
tnmd,
Hardy kmite.
Britains Blude has
Aft
dlmd
z6i
Shyne
its
This Poynt cut jhort their Vaunt;
Cheik,
boifteris bairded
Syne piercd the
Nae Tyme he
tuke to taunt.
XXXV.
S.CHORT
quhyle he in his
fwang,
Sadill
His Stirrip was nae Stay,
Sae
feible
hang
unbent Knee,
his
Sure taken he was fey:
Swith on the hardened Clay he
Richt
far
But ihomas
fell,
was hard the Thud,
luikt
not as he lay
in his Blude.
All wakering
xxxvr.
With
On
cairles
Gefture
Mynd
raid he north the Plain,
fierceft Stryfe,
His feim in Thrang of
Quhen Winner
Nor
zit his
Coud
Till
unmuvic
5
Heart Dames dimpelit Cheik,
meife
vengeful
Then
ay the fame
faft
Ann
languid
b
Luve
f
to bruik,
returnd his Scorn,
$
grew
his
3
Luke.
xxxvii.
m
Hardyknute.
262
xxxvu.
I
n Thrawis of Death, with wallowit Cheik
All panting
The
on the
Plain,
Corps of Warriours
fainting
lay,
Neir to aryfe again j
Neir to return to native Land,
Nae mair with blythfom Sounds,
To
boift the Glories
And
of the Day,
fchavv thair Shyning
Wounds.
XXXVIII.
Pn
Norway s Coaft
May warn
May
lang Iuke
Befair
Thy Lord
To
owre
the Schiples Seis
appeirs.
hope
ceife to
Iyis in
in Vain,
the Clay,
Scots
valziant
Dame
Rocks with Teirs,
Mare
hir.
Emma,
Ceife,
The
the
the VVidowit
nae Reve/s thole
carry Lyfe away.
xxxix.
There
on
a Lie quhair ftands a Crofs
Set up for-
Thoufonds
VI 'id
Monument,
full fierce that
Summers Day
kene VVaris black Intent,
Let
Hardyknute.
Let Seots % quhyle
Name
Let Norfe the
Ay how
Scots, praife
he faucht,
Ages
Sal lateft
265
Hardyknute,
ay dreid,
how
aft
he fpaird,
reid.
XL.
Loud
and
chill
blew weftlin Wind,
heavy Showir,
Sair beat the
Mirk grew the Nicht
Wan
Hardyknute
eir
Tower,
neir his (lately
His Towir that ufd with Torches
To
bleife
ftiyne fae far at Nicht,
Seimd
now
mourning Weid.
as black as
Nae Marvel
fair
he
fichd.
XL I.
JHAIRS
nae ticht In
Tbairs nae Licht in
Nae
my
my
Blink jhynes round
Ladys Bowlr
Hall;
my
Fairly fair,
s
Nor Ward Jlands on my Wall.
®iuhat bodes
it ?
Nae Anfwer
Stand
^
-
back,-
my
Robert,
fits
Thomas fay,
their Dreid.
Sons,
HI
be z.our
Gyde,
hv they paft with Speid.
$
4
XLlh AS
Hardyknute,
2&f,
XLII.
jiSfafl lhaiffped oivre Scotlands Faes s
There
ceift his
Brag of Weir,
Sair fchamit to
mynd
And Maiden
Fairly
Black Feir he
He
will:
felt,
not
Sair fchuke his
And
all
zit
ocht but his Dame,,
fair.
but «juhat to
with Dreid
Body,
fair his
the Warrior fled.
feir
5
Limbs,,
2.6s
GLOSSARY;
O
R,
EXPLANATION of
An
the
Scots Words.
A R
A
All.
Aits,
,4zY,
Abxijit, abafhed.
Abeity
albeit.
Abergown, Coat of Mail.
AblenSj petbaps.
Aboife , abufe, above.
Abnlziement, Habit.
Abune, above.
Adoun, downward,
4fi
Aw,
Abaid Abade, Abode,
flayed.
oir.
own.
Oats.
Tima
paft.
Air, Coon, early, item Heir.
Aith, Oath.
^[&eri;r^zW,breadth of an
aloft.
AUaTte, allone.
Almons, Alms.
Alkynd, all kind, or Sort
,/!/.$,
Amine,
of.
and.
as,
plcafant.
Aft, aften, oft, often.
Ane, one.
Affeir, frighted.
,4»e5, anis, once.
Afrey, Fear.
Agit, aged.
4g*[i» afrighted.
Aidir, either.
Aik, Oak.
Aac.
Alaft,
Atitetezvrae, Example.
Apenit, opened.
Apfleis, pleafe.
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.BtfTO/^whitefae'd.
Bedene, immediately.
Befoir, A e/Vw, before
B?~ft, beaten.
AJfalziet, affailcd.
Attains, at once.
Aith&ptrit, tempered,
Attoivre, out over.
Jttercapi a WV.fp.
Avalziet, availed.
Aventure, Adventure.'
Aver, a Hctfe.
Aviril, fenfe-lefs Fellow.
Axcbt,ovg}\t ) item eight.
Add;
B E
GloJJary.
Jrlilzie, Artillary.
Afs ask.
Btpoittk, began.
Hewitt, beguile!.
Bebald behold.
li-boif, Behove
B H, any Shelter againft the
Inclemency of the Weather.
Bdyvz, immediatly.
Bullies, Bellows.
Beik, to bask or warm;
old.
owe.
Azvin, own.
Axvis, ows.
An re at, Golden.
Art),
Beimsy Beams.
Beir, to bear, item to
moan.
Beir, Barley.
Beit,H.d ?
Ben, inner part of a Houfe.
Be»e, been.
Ayd,,Ati.\
.
Avyft, Advice.
Ay ad y Breath.
Bene, Bean.
B
A
BAIT), hade,
Bent, the Feild.
Berkit, barkened.
did abide.
Eand, bound
Bain's or
"Ba'i/iocks,
B-xitis,
Bones.
B'wis, Boughs.
Bewtie, Beauty.
Bsx.o»d, beyond.
Bread.
bare-
J'nxlr,
JB^fVw, Bern, Child,
Youth.
2%o,
JiMthy both£'<*»'#
Balmit, embalmed.
Bink, Bench,
B/w, been.
Bîiy to cutfe.
to
move
haftily.
Biquni'.r or
Bkroir, barbarous.
Bar'oMhiet, to cent ufe.
Barret, Sort of Liquor.
T>*«; 5, Staves of
Barrow.
Jtarrotr.'
U*rw,
Cup
a
Yeft.
B«)*wj,fexme»te.l and
Baiddy bold.
build.
Biggit, built.
Bikkerit, contended-
cr Be«Z, Sorrow.
£'<*«£,
Befeik, befeech.
Befzvakit, blanched.
B^twfch, betwixt.
muddy.
Bicker,
a large
or Difh.
Birkin }hby»sfi Knot of Birch
Leaves
Bin,
Brittle.
Jfrrff,
to burn.
Birniji, burniihed.
Btfiliey bufily.
R
B
"
BY
Glojfary.
Blad, a Strok, ittp t a big
Piece of-
J>lae, livid,
Side of a Hill,
a River.
#>•*<>,
Bland, to mix.
Blajhy, wet.
Brî^
Ifrfe, balhful.
,B/*iu,Blow.
Braids or Brades,
•
Bledocb, Butter milk.
mtif, to make the Eyes red
or dim.
Blent, looked.
Hammer and
fpeak
Nonfenfe.
Blame, Bloom.
Blade, Blood.
\Bediri, furnifhed.
'Bodword, Meffage.
B»cht, bought.
Bog, Marfh.
Beiji, to boaft.
Boll, to vomit.
Bony, beautiful, item Utile.
Boltings or Bulling, Boots.
Bot , but, ittita wjthoutj
Rafters.
Bow/.', the Body, -/few Bulk.
|Bo«J;<&>5,
young Bull,
Horn,
his
a
Bonn, ready
t/ew?
to go.
Board, a Sport, item to {port.
Bowjieoas, toifterous.
Bowjler, a Boliler.
Bcxv, a Fold of Cattle.
Br^nd, a Sword.
Br^wnd, the Mufcles.
ravglit,
brandished.
Braif, brave.
./
'J
broad, item to hafte >
is like,
or
takes after.
Brats ot drace, Embrace.
Brajfh, brufli.
Breiks, Breeches.
Bricbt, bright.
Brie, Eye bfowr
Bril%*a», Brillant.
Blink, a fmall Sight, item, to
fparkleBUnliit, looked haftily.
B'Wgil-,
Bank of
arife.
Kefor', to bable.
Blether, to
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Br xtle, to clafh.
Braw, brave, fme.
-~>kand, Pranfing.
B>im,
fierce
Brocht, brought.
Brod, to prick or fpur.
Brock, the Badger.
Brexvdin, fond of.
Brofujler, Brewer.
Bradie, teeming, fertile.
Braik, brook or enjoy.
Bwkit, blackened.
Brakil,
brittle.
Brynt, brust.
Bad,
Bribe.
Ball' or ?>«£&, Book.
Baith, Booth or Shop.
Baith-mejl, Shop Rent,
B<i'.ing,
Booty.
B««dz\*, V.iiind.
Ban, A;fe.
B^re, did bear.
Barde, Board
Bum, a Brook.
Tjardoun,a. Palmers Staff.
Bujhment, Men lying in Am.
bufli.
Bufs, a'Bufli.
Bute, Help, Advantage.
Bwfanlôt, without.
Bj/>-2,
Covvhoufe.
C*
C A
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GhJJary.
G
R
Clattert chatter.
C A
GA,
Claw, to fcratch.
Ckft", the Cleaving.
Clene, clean.
Clerk, generally ufed for a
learned Man.
Clewis or Cleuohs, Clifts.
Cleik.it, laid hold on.
Cleith, Cloath.
Clench, Hollow betwixt Hills,
call.
Cabroch,ipoot lain Flefli.
Cadgers, Higglers.
Callif,
called.
Campion, Champion.
C<*/;'^f, angry ,i/e/»,ulcerated.
Canny, happy convenient.
Ca»ty t chearful.
Capronfy, an upper Garment.
Cat-line, an old Woman.
Ctyif, called.
Clips, Eclips.
Clokks, Beetles.
Clod, to throw.
Cluds, Clouds.
Carp, to talk.
Carvell,a Kind of Ship.
Caji, a throw.
Cative or Catif, Captive or
Cluke, to hook.
C/«w? or clam, climbed,
Cluves, Hoves.
CWroc£>,miferable aod nafty,
Slave.
Cazvd, called.
Combure, to burn.
Coft , bought.
Con, the Squirrel.
.
Cazvf, Calf.
Cavik, Chalk.
Comich, comick.
Cawkit, did fliyte.
Caiild, Cold.
Corbie, a
Highland TuneCowhowby, Cowherd,
Cowd, cut or clipped.
Celcitude, Highnefs.
heavenly.
Celeji,
Raven.
Corinoch a
Ceis, to ceafe.
Chalmer, Chamber
Courtas, courteous.
Cbaip, efcape.
Couth, cold, item familiarCo vet ice, Covetoufnefs,
Cvnr, to iloopand creep flow.
Crabit, Curly, angry.
Craig y theNeck,tte»jaRocL
Chaft s, the
Chops.
Chak, to check.
Chat ,to hang on a Gallows.
Cbeil, a Perfon.
Craif, crave.
Cheir, Sheer, item, chear.
Chain.
Chereu, cherifh.
Clam Shells, Scalop Shells.
Clan, a Tribe.
Chen-xj.e,
Clajhesj idle Tales.
Clajh, to throw Dirt.
Cfozifc,
Clais,
Cloath.
Ooaths.
'
Craw, the Crow.
Crap, did creep.
Cra'ik, to croak.
Crawdon, faint hearted.
Oei/&,Greafe.
Creils, Baskets
Croufe, brisk and bold,
<7>«*'/, a Lodge.
.
C>7«e
.
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C Y um J a
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Gloffary.
€yyne, wither and grow
lefa.
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Dercby a Dwarf.
Cule y Cool.
Pe>», Secret.
Dertby D«arth.
Cum, come.
Defxvity deceived.
Cunxie, Coyn.
Cun, Tafte.
Cnrnmerjom, troublefom.
Culroun^ a Rafcal.
Ptft, Debt.
Dcvallingy defending hafti-
little Bit.
Citrcbesy Kerchiefs, or
Head
Linnea.
Cuiky CookCurpaly Crupper.
Cujie, did caft, item vomit.
Cutty Ancle, Joint, item
Trifle.
] y-
Dew,
due.
P/c&f, to clean, item drefTed 3
deckt.
Dingy to beat or overcome.
Ding, worthy.
Dirtin, belhitten.
Denxie, to deign.
Dochty could, availed.
Docbiery Daughter.
Pojj, does.
Doky Arfe.
DA
Donk, Moift.
DAE, Do.mad,
Daft,
merry.
Po/i, neat, regular.
foolifh,
Dairthful ,dear.
Dander, wander
carelefty.
P*wg, Defeat.
Tjantariyto quell.
Vapilly daple.
P*TO,Dawn, zf<??» a Sluggard.
Dewing, dawning.
Deavc or P«f, to deafen.
De/W,dead,jt. Death, indeed.
Veil, deal, ir«w» Devil.
Dink, dynky
Up
dojiy
P«t in OtieU
Dow, to be able.
Dow, Dove.
fa itcy ,&£/», finely
dreft.
Doivbart, dull Fellow.
Douchtyy hardy,valiant.
Dawfy heavy Fool, item dull,
melancholy.
Po«r,Tullen, hard;
Po«5, folid, grave.
Draify drave.
Drahat
Dret, fliitDraivkii, wet.
Drie, to endure.
Dreicb, tedious.
niournfuJ
Detity, fine.
PmVy,lonfome and
Demi, to deem.
Demyng, condemning or dam-
Dringy a Mifer.
Droicb, a Dwarf.
nicg.
Depairt, to divide.
Depaynt, painted,
Drone, to a£t lazily,
Droukit, drenched.
Drcup, to dtoop.
Dryty ihhe.
peray, Noife 3 Sporting, Gambols.
Dwam, Qualm.
Dub*
E A
27°
Dubs, Mire and
Duds, Rags.
Duils, Goals.
Dale, Pain.
F
Glojfary.
little Pools.
A
Enfenzie f Enfign,
Erfcb,
In/h.
E«/<?, to
Efpera-nce,
aim.
Hope.
P«w, Dumb.
Dume, Doom.
Efchapit, Efcaped.
Evtrichone, every one,
Dunt, to beathaid.
Eydently, fee Ithandly.
Eyndle, to be jealous.
Dung,
beaten.
Pwrii, Doors.
Dwxlm,
Eytilingf Jeaioufy.
to fvvoon or *ake a
<ûalm.
F
Dyne, to dine.
A
Itywt, Stroak.
Dyvour
',
a Bankrupt.
F^laJl.
F*e, Foe.
FW/ef-, Falfliood:
Fatk, a Fold, to quif.
E A
EzV<*
EJ>y?
Earth.
,
£<?,
,
or
Erdey
Eye
Edert, Edward.
Edder-Jfaimt, ftung by an
Adder.
Egf/, tbe Eagle.
E/&
to addjiftfwjalfo.
EiW, Age.
E*V, Ear,tftffB E'erEiryncfs ) Fear of Spirits and
Goblings.
Fair, to go or pafs.
Fairdy, clever and tight.
Fa/xie or Felx.ie y to fail.
F<*nd, found.
Fangs-, Paws and Claws.
Fat.g, to grafp.
Fa,?kl?, to intangle.
F<a/& or Fs-fche, to trouble.
FafloH!?,
Fafluon.
Fazv, Fall.
Fatds, gets.
F««W or F««4", Fold.
Taut, Fault.
Fry, Faith.
Eife, Eaf,'.
Eii, to cat.
F-«x^rr,a Daftard,
Fecbt, Fight.
Eî>, eafy-
Fecklefs, without Strength.
Eme, Uncle^
Empxjhed, hindered.
Elbuck, Elbow.
Feddev, a Father.
Feddersm, Wings.
Enannlit, enameled.
Ene, Eyes.
Feid, Feud, Hatred.
Feidom, Fatality.
Feiity, Subje&ion.
Feil, Seufe, item manyFeir, Fear.
J]#2»cfr,enoi'gfo.
F«>y
Flritch, gboltly, wild, lone-
fome.
tight.
Weir
F
2>di> or fere t
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Companion.
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Fen, to live
Forzet, to forget, ifew forgotten.
Fojter, a Forrefter ,/£<?» Murfc.
Fenzie, to feign.
Ferly, to vender, a Wonder.
•Ferd t Fourth.
Pfi'/i, ForceFey, piedeftinated to Death,
Foumart, a Pole-cat.
Fouth, Abundance.
Fr&e, from.
Fragile weak, tender,
Feity hired.
orfome Misfojtune.
Feynd, Fiend, the Devil.
FzVy
Jf<*)7,
Herd of Cattle.
Hurry, Confufion.
K/db, Fifh.
Fitch, to move.
Fiendris, Splinters.
F/««g, did fling.
Fl*nt, an Anew.
Fi*ugkt, a Blaze of Lightning.
Spade
for
flaying Turf.
Lies. F/<*«/, to lie.
bacilli.
F/e£, did flyie or chide.
F/cy,
to fright.
F/*t, to
Ftichter,
Fveid, Freedom.
flutter like a Bird.
Flocht, Flight, Fear, Anxiety.
F/yt*, Chide.
PF/wre, Floor.
Furs, wait on, ziew fared,
Furthy,£cts in Behaviour.
Foot.
Futher, or fudder, a great
F«£f?,
Fyref.ivgt, burnt.
Fylock. a youDg Mare.
faint
FyZe, defile.
F)'fee,
Foment, oppofite tp.
FoYtonyit, gave Way.
Forworthia, worthlefg.
Forlane y alone.
JWop'w, Vagaboad.
ire«», fur-
many.
Fog, MofsFotfair/?, abufed.
Forfochten, tired and
with fighting.
Fund, found.
Fxrder, to fpeed,
ther.
remove.
Forltii, to forfake.
\
Fud, the Tail.
Fude, Food.
Faff, to blow.
F«fe, Fool.
Fleich, to flatter.
Fteim or Fhme, to
frail.
Fremit, ftrange, not a Kin.
Freprie, the ruffling or Folds
of Cloath.
Ft'icht, Fright.
Fripon, a Knave.
Fnj7, to Truft or give Ctedit,
Frnfch, eafily broken.
F«,fuJl-.
Fi*uctiter-$p<*de,
JF7<3<uj.n,
.
F^ftjhaft.
Fr&ivart, crofs and ugly
Freik', impertinent Fools.
Ficht, Fight
Fie or Fe, a
Fozv, fu\l,item drunk.
Fywe,
to be teftivc.
fine.
G
&
G A
zHi
Q R
Glojfary.
Get, a
Ghaijt, Ghoft.
Gie, give.
Gif, gin, if-
G A
GA
R, the Mouth.
Gild-,
Gad or Ged, Goad.
GtMer, gather.
Gat, go.
Gatf, gave.
Gains, ferves.
G«V, greedy.
Gait, Gate, Way,
item Goat.
Method,
Gzijlivgs, Gollings.
Galzi* t iy brisk,
jolly,
wan-
Gams } Gums.
Gan, began.
Gane, gone, item feive.
G«w<?, Mouth.
Gang, to go.
G«K»f, to yawn.
Gar, to make or oblige.
Gardevyance, a Cafe of Instruments.
Garth, a Garden
or Inclo-
Gfore, Glory
Glunfcboch, four Fellow.
Glonm, to knit the Eye-brows*
Glttves, * Gloves.
Laugh.
Goldfpink,the Goldfinch.
G&wj'y, large and fat.
Mock,
Head
Gimp,ite Jimpi
Gird, to ftrikc.
Girn, to grin, item a Trap
or Snare.
Girth, aSanftuary.
Glamour, the Sight deceived.
Glaikyto pafs Time idly.
Glar, Myre.
Glave, a Sword.
or Glie, Mirth.
Gled, a Kite.
Gleim, fmall Flame.
Gfo'i, Small Spunk of Fire.
Glen , a Hollow between
Mountains.
Glengore or Grandgore 9 the
Trench Pox.
Glour, to ftaie.
fure.
Gats, Gall.
(jfcfe,
Clamour.
Gilt, gmlded.
GU
ton.
{Jdfzs^ a
Child.
or,
caft
up the
ia Derifion.
GoJ& ôr Gowk, the Cuckow.
GUfi to Glifter.
Gowden, Golden.
Geiw, given.
Goivkit,
Geir, Wealth.
Gemmer, gender.
Grape, to grope.
Graif,ihc Grave, item grave.
Grain, grave, groan.
Grangis, Corn Fields, Barns
Gent,
gentile.
Genterice, honourable Birth.
Gsntilcnejs, Clemency.
Genzie, a Dart or Arrow.
Gerjemeâ certain Fine paid
at the renewing of a Lcafe.
foolifh.
and Grannaries.
Graiih, to make ready, item
UtCDiils,neceirary ThingsGraitbed^ttyiedytnade ready.
Grat
HA
weep.
Grein, to long for earnefl-Jy.
Greit, weep, item great.
Grene, green.
Gm, Degree
Orei or&m, Grafs.
Grit or
^rei't, great.
Oats naif ground.
G»-ot5,
Groivf,
to ly
flat
on
ones
Belly.
Grund,
Ground.
Gmndm,
fharped.
Gruntill, a
Sow.
Grunxie, Snout or Nofe.
Gryce, a Pig.
Gwairdottn, Prote&ion.
GKz'fo, expefts
HI
Gloffary.
i&vat, did
Time foolifhly
JJ«/s, eo falute.
Hame, Home.
H*»dfell,thc
firft
hop, item Chance,,
Harle, to drag,
Jf<*/>,
Hzrmfi, hamiihed.
Jiamsy fee Hairns.
Harfe or Hairs, hoarfe.
Having, Behaviour.
Hawkit, white faced-'
Hawtane, haughty.
He*/, fled, Health.
Hecht,
to
promife,
Hecht, named.
Heicb, high.
Guims, Gums.
Jffai'Kt
Gyant, Giant.
Gyde, Guide.
Gydar, Guider.
Gyj'i, Guife.
Herkry, Harbour.
fpoiled, impoverished
Hether, Heath,
He neb, a Rock,
Hew, Hue.
Heynd, quick,
a fteepHili.
clever.
Hie, high.
Height.
JHicibt,
H A
Hicher, higher.
Hiddlings, hiding PlacgSJ
Hall.
Hz'wf, (hatched.
Taberna-
Hae, hare.
Haggles, a kind oi Pudding.
H*ilfuw, wholfomc.
H*if, have.
Hfiims or Harms, Brains,
01 hairy , hoary grayi
Hw
Heifit, lifted up, hoifed
Hcvin, Heaven.
Gymmer, court and enjoy*
Gymp, neat, pretty.
Habitiklis,
or heilded, upheld.
iiew» hear.
Weir, here,
Hery it,
Gnrlie, furlie.
!H
a Pisa
mile.
Gule, rediih Yellow.
Gule Snout, red Nos'd.
Guhfchocb, the Jaundice.
;*,
Money that
Merchant gets.
Hankit, held with Ropes.
a
and Delays.
Gttde ot guid, good.
Gwie*, Riches.
G//e or
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J2*M, Hold.
Jfa/y, Holy.
Hinny, Honey*
Hir, her.
Hird, who watches the Flocks
or Cattle.
HirpUtid, going like one lame*
Hitsh} t© move.
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274
N
*
K Y
Gloffary.
Itbandlyy bufily, without In>
Ho, the Singular of Hofc.
termiifion.
Hobledy cobledCough,,
Hoik, to dig.
Holkity made hollow.
Holtis, Hills, high Ground.
Jtoijly
How,
hiding.
Hovoky to dig.
Hoitolaty an Owl.
Jiowpy hope.
Kavesy Calves.
Kei{ty did caft.
Kemdy combed.
Xe» } to know.
Hw<&, Hood.
Hud-pyky a Churk
Huly, How,
Hurey Whore.
ffurcbeotiy
fflurktisy
Kene y kene.
Kendy knew.
Hedge hog.
goes
bowed aad
KA,
Kahutey a little Houfe.
K*ily Colcwort or Cabage,
item Broth.
Kxip or Kupy Cap or Top.
hollow.
Howis
Howdmnd,
K A
to drive.
Ketify, a Rnftick.
de-
Kef>> to catch
what moves foi
ward one.
crepid.
Myndy ftraigh*.
JKe^r, fuch a Catchers
Jiydy to hide..
to take.
Kinricky
Kingdom.
Kimmery a Corner or Hie
Mynty
J
J
A
GoflipKinnetiy Rabits.
KUtit, tucked up.
Churne.
Anglers y Contenders.
jfWj>, to jeft or cheat,
Kivtle Petycoafr.
item, to heave- and fet.
#0,
Rirriy
Chert.
.
J*p, aDafb. of Water.
TfrttZe, difficult, i£e«» tickhfli.
Je^Joly.
Kinfchy a Loop, to count his
Kinfcb, to hit his Part.
Jimp,
neat.
otGtily (Saint) the Patron Saint of Edinburgh.
jfeii
Jouk,to bow.
jfy'&, to mock,
each.
Ilka, every.
//ft,
Knaif, Knave.
Knapska y Knapfack.
Knatu, know.
Knichty Knight.
Know, Hillock.
Kowfchot or Ccwfchot)
Jtlfardy illfavoured.
Ring-Dove.
Kuke, Cook.
Ky, Kine.
hidings unworthy.
Kyte, Belly.
ingle^ a FireEnglift.
Jiytb, to flietf
.'fw/efe,
Infeft.
JWtfifc, to
mts,
comefhort.
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Leir, to learn.
%emman,
L
Courtesan or Coa"
v
cubine.
A.
Lends, Buttocks.
LAggerit,
Lefum,
bemired.
Laid, Load.
Laif or
lave, the reft.
L^V, Learning, item a Place
to ly in.
Lew
2>i&, to want.
Lains, themfelves.
3Wp, to lap as a Dog.
Licbarie, Lechery.
Liohtly, undervalue.
Lickmadowps,
terers,
Lie or le, calm.
Lift, the Sky.
L#g,toly
Langour, Weary nefs.
Limm, Limb.
jL«»5, a Lance.
!/«»*, to dart.
L«jJ,did leap.
Li>w|>,to halt.
Lin, a Precipice
Limmer, Thief and Whori?,
Lipper, leaperous-
TJsk, the Groin or Flank.
Loan, where the Cows ar§
milked.
Lobar, curled.
Loppin, did leap;
Lore, Learning.
Leifches, Lafhcs.
Leich, Leech or Dr.
L*id, a Perfon, item Lan'
g ua ge
jLeif, Leave, ifew, to live.
Zieim or Leant, Flame.
it
Low, Flame.
Lnxony a
Whore or
Rogise,
Lounger, hanging-headed.
Loan, calm.
Lowp,
plea
to leap.
Lowpar, Leaper.
me.
Lout, to bow low.
Jjeifings, Lies.
Lows)
.
Wa-
Linkit, went haftily.
Lippen, depend.
L&v), low.
Lazotie, Honefty,Juftice.
La-yoland, Lowland.
Leil o r leal, honeft.
fes
where
ter falls.
faded.
2>e7, honeft, lawful.
|>zs, Loves, leis me,
Flat-
Lie, Corn Lands untiled for
fome Years.
Jjathand. feeble, weak and
1
fervile
that falutclike Dogs.
Lidder, How, lazy.
'Larbour, wooden.
I
3
rather.
Liar or Lyart, hoary.
Licbt, Light, item merry.
Laifure, Leafure.
£«{/?, laced.
Laith, loath.
Laithly, Lothfome.
Laits, Manners.
Land-mart, the Country.
Lane, Loan.
I
lawful.
Lench, did laugh;
Lever, rather.
f/aich, low.
S
a
loofe.
'
""
_
Lmk,
MA
21 6
M
Glojfary.
I
Jjt*fr*y, Gifts.
M"it, Mate.
M*ndrag t Mandrake.
M*n%it, bruifed, maimed.
Mankit } wanting.
Jsuggs, Ears.
Mant, to ftammer.
L uggit,
M*ntil, Mantle.
Marrow, Fellow or Mate'
Jju&c, loved.
Love, item the Palm
of the Hand.
I/w/c,
Jjuidj
to
draw by the Ears.
loved.
Jjuims, Looms.
JJ i*ivari Lover.
Luk or Luck, Fortune.
Jjwfce or Lwife, Look.
Jjukit or lucken clofed toge-
JVl^«c^5,Magots.
a HWy muft.
Mavis, a Thrufli.
M
Mekle or weikle, much.
Mell, to meddle or contend^
Chimney.
Jjuvdge, to hang downward.
Jjunxie, Loyne.
Mdhfluat, fweet flowing.
Mdttih, a Male of Meat.
Meid or M«^, Mood, ife>»
a Reward.
Z,«te, did
M«t/, Meal.
ther.
I/km?,
le't.
Tsttrdane, a Blockead, or la-
zy Fellow.
Jjufchbald, a Slugard.
Ly/e, Life.
Like.
JLyking, beloved.
Z/y/tf,
Menzie,
a Whore a»d Knave.
the Complexion.
Lytfo a Joynt.
Jjytity dyed, litted.
Jjymmer
jLyre,
M
MAE,
A.
moe.
Mahoun, the
Maid, made.
jVJei» or metie, mean.
Meisy to ftill, or mitigate.
Meiths, Bounds, Limits qs
Matks.
Mends, amends.
Devil.
M<«fe, make.
or
Re-
Middingy Dunghill.
Milaney alone.
Minglity mingled.
Minty to attempt, to aim*
Makkars, Poets.
Malefon, Malediftion.
M^ffe, Mate or Match.
Xtailpaytrs, Farmers.
Main otmatte } to moaa.
Maifi, moft.
Company
tinue.
Menftuir, fwear againft.
Menfwortty perjured.
Merkaud, marking.
Merle, the Merlin, a Bird,,
Mejfen, a Lap-Dog.
Mete, to meafure.
Micbty might.
Minvy, Mother.
.
Mi'ifirell, Mufician.
Mirk
or mevk, dark.
jWiifee»,to Misknowjijtfw forbear.
M11V, more.
Mismadey deformed.
JV1*«> mull.
Mijter, to aced.
Mok,
N
Mok,
E
W
O
Glojfary.
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Niggxrts, Niggard*.
Noctii, nought, frequently for
to rnock f
Mold, the Ground.
Mony, many.
not.
Mortber, Murder.
Noit, Stioak on the Head.
Mot, may.
Mou, Mouth.
Moud, mouthed.
Mows, Jeft.
Muck, Dung.
JWwê, Mood.
JW«»e, Moon.
iW«iV or Mure, a Heath.
Mumting, muttering.
Mold, would not.
Hone, or Nune, Noone.
Noy, annoy.
M»rdefteji } murdered.
Murgeon,
to
make
Signs or
Noyis, Noife.
Nowther, neither.
Nuik
or
Nuke, Nook, Cor*
ner.
Nurifar, nurifhing.
Nurture ,Education,itos Cpjreftion.
Nybill, to pike.
Nys, Nice.
imitate.
JMK'ue or >»«/(?, move.
Myce or My/i, Mice.
O B
Mynd, Mind.
JWywe, mine.
Mynt,
OB7i/ir,
obliged.
OcfetjOt
jught or aught,
to offeror attempt.
Afy»xio», Mignon.
Odioill, hateful.
Myting, a Mite.
Ockerar, an Uferer.
Hoft.
0>y, any.
Opinzion, Opinion.
Or, before.
Orifons, Prayers.
Ot, of it.
Oiji,
N
NA,
«<*<?,
A.
no.
Rains, na»es, the Pur-
j
pofe-
Ndithing, nothing.
Kane, none.
2STe?V,
near.
jSTezV,
never.
2\T«i,the Nofe.
next.
JSLeijl,
Neif ot Nicve, Fift.
Nek, a Term at Chefs, when
the King cannot be guard*
Ory^, over.
Oxorefrett, overfpread,
irnbel-
lifhed.
Owrequhelm, overwhelm,
the other
all
Owfe,
Qfc<,
ovores.
Week
Owther, either.
Owfen, Oxen.
Oxter,
Arm- pit.
Oys, Grandchildren.
ed from a Check.
Novell, a Stroak with the
Fift
Nicht, Night,
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Plein, complain.
P
A
PAddock, a
Frog.
Paddock-rude, Spawn of
Frogs.
Padxian, Pageant.
Faiks, Chaftifement.
Plenxie, complain.
Pitts, pleafe,
Plefans, Pleafufe.
Plet, to twift, twirled.
Pleucb, Plow.
Pley, Contcft or Squable.
Plight, plighted.
Pais, Pafeh or Efter.
Paitlait, an Under-coat.
Po/fe,Poke,or little Sack;
Pofody, a Sort of Highland
Broth.
Faip,' the Pope.
Pallions, Pavilions.
Pott', to pull-
Falat, Skin.
F*r>g, to
fluff.
Fanj'g, paufc.
Pare, to enipair.
Paucity, haughtyF<*ivps, Paps or Breafts.
Fayntit, painted.
Fech, to breath fliort.
Feild, ftript.
Peir, an equal.
Pet'*, Peas.
Ftlour, aPilgarlickFennair,* Pen-Cafe.
Fens, Plumes.
Ferfay, in Faith.
Ferfe, pierce.
Ferfave, perceive.
Perfev), purfue.
Pet, a Favourite, to take the
Pet, to be pcevifii.
Pingle, to ftriveer labour with
Difficulty.
Pow, Poll
or
Head.
Poutch, Pocket.
Powter, to prog.
Pratick, Practice.
Preif or preive, prove, try, or
Tafte.
Preincod, Pincuflieon.
Preiving, trying.
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Preife, prefs.
Prewi, Print or Impreffiono
Preve»e,to prevent.
Propyae, a Prefent.
Prydlefs,
humble.
Pryji*, Prizes.
Puncisj Pulfes-
Punde
%
to fequefter-
Pulchritude, Beauty.
Pure or puir, poor,i£*w pure.
Puirtith, Poverty.
Purfiii, rufled.
Pwr/«.£yfe, Pick-purfe.
Pufiance, Power.
Pvw«, Pain.
Pifc Pitch.
P//e&, to pifs.
Pith, Strength.
<Û.
Plaid, a loofe upper Garment.
Plait, fold.
Plaint, Complaint.
Flacky third of a Pcny.
Pltids, Contentions.
JJantance, Acquaintance
j£««t, did quite or
a'
quit.
$»*y, young
CoW^^
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R
Qkflary.
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Fog or Mi ft.
Ramand, crying.
Raft,
Sts*ver 9 Quiver.
gueue, Queen.
gvell, to kill.
R*fcb 9
who.
Subfifi Whale.
Rafli.
J^«fe*,
JUictes, Hounds.
^Jfjwj, whole.
Raw, Row.
R&wmondy beardlefs,
Sgupair, where,
Sgubxt, what.
gutat-reck, what the Matte*.
.g«fofy, a
Whelp.
fimple.
Raucht, reacht.
Rax,
Stretch.
Reb*ld, a Talker of Norifecfe or Rebaldry.
Red
^fo'fc, Wheels.
or reid y to wifll, item
Fear.
£«*«*, Wheat.
<&uben,
when.
gubene, a Part.
gubilk, which-
Redour> Fright.
Rehatanr, a malicious Ene-
g)itbidder, whither.
Reid, Red, item to read.
Reiki Smoak, item to reach.
my.
Whip.
jg>«&£,
gukittle a Knife.
guhitly, pale and thin.
SZybirly whirl.
Reikis,
M>ubois, whole.
Jgubom, whom.
gubylfome, fometime ago.
.Reroe or reve, to rob.
rigged, item fmoked
Rtird, Noife.
Rei(r, to dry in a Chimney.
Re-aer, a Rober-
Renxie,
guby, why.
^>«riyte
the
Rein
of
a
Bridle.
ûhyle, while, item
until.
Reprieve, reprove.
White-
gupdjquotb,
(aid.
ft
A.
Rejave, receive.
Refine or Refuun, Reafon.
Rei>m, Robb«rs.
Revers, the Rovers at which
the Archers ilioot.
Revrtb. Pity.
Rewme Realm.
T)
ilE, Roe.
_ R.a dot Red,
feared-
Racklefi or recklefs, to
careldly or ralh.
jR.tf*/, rave, did rive.
aft
Raing a. Circle.
Raik t to go a quick Pace,
Rewyne, Ruin.
Rcw>, to take Pity, item, to
repent.
RrVtft,
Right.
Ricbt vow, lately.
t
Raift, a Rope.
jR.<«V, to roar.
Rait, Rate.
Rang, Rung*
Rauigild* a foe^Sj Ssold.
Rift, to belch.
Rigg, the Back, #<?« a Ridge.
Rilling, a Shoe made of
rough raw untaa'd Leather.
Rwk3
R
s8a
tJ
S
Qlojfary.
Rink, a Gourfc.
Ring, to reign.
S
Rifpies, Bulruflies.
Ro:bes, Rocks.,
Roir, to roar.
Rok, a Diftaff, item tti roll
or move from one Side to
the other.
Rone, Bramble or Briar.
Row, a Roll to roll.
Rowth, Abundance.
Rowpand. crying-hoarfe.
Rowms, Rooms.
Rowmis
make a
to
Noife,
Roun, Whifper.
Roung
or
Rung, a Cloun's
Staff.
Rowt, to bellow
or low like
a Bull.
Royis, raves.
Crofs.
pull with Force.
Randge,to range and gather.
Rumple, a Rump.
Rttte, Root.
or ruife, to
commend,
praife, extoll.
Rutber, the Rudder.
Ryall, Royall.
Ryfe or Rife, common.
Rynk, Rank.
Rys or ilyce, Dwarf Bufhes
of Wood.
.
Ryje,
rife.
2tyt>e> to tear
Co.
Saft, foft.
S*if, fave
Samlefs, innocent.
.
Sain or fane , to
blcfs„
fore.
<y«*V,
Sane, fay.
J*//, fhall.
&««,
fold.
Sang, Song.
Sans, without.
Sar, Savour.
Sargeand, Serjeant.
Safk, Shirt.
Sary, Sorry.
Rukes, Crows.
Rukis, Ricks.
Rufe
A
Saw, old Saying or Prophecy.
Saw, Word or Promife.
Ruch, rough.
Rude, Rednefs.
Rude, a
Rug, to
SA,fae,
C
assd fpleet.
Sauch, a Willow.
Saucbt, at Eafe, in Peace.
Saul, Soul.
#**M, fee Said.
Sawrs, Savours, Smells.
B. the c here between the
and fci tho' it is neves
now, yet it was feldom neglected by our old
2\T.
f
ufed
Gentlemen
}
therefore
any
Word that begins
with only Jh t look for JJ
hard
in fch.
Scant, fcarce.
Scbaip, to fit.
Scbairp, (harp.
Schaw, fliew.
Scbawst little Woods.
Scbedj feparate.
Scheil}
E
S
Sheild.
Meal
befot§ it
is
lifted.
Scbit, a
blafted little
Grea-
Schogled, dangled.
Schoil, flic will, or fhe'U.
Scheg, to fhakc.
Scho, flie.
&toj
Scaldit, ournt.
Scar:, Hermaphrodite.
Scowrieos: Skfltoriei meagre,
Scunder, a Quitlm.to loath*
Sib, a Kin.
Sic or Jik, fuch.
Sicb, Cgb.
Sicker, fure.
^//er, Silver.
Sindle, feldom.
Singh,* Handful of gleanel
Corns.
to threat.
Shot.
£&<**'/,
&$i>-, Sir.
Schrewis, Shrews.
Schuke, fhook.
Scbuder, to Shiver.
Schune, Shoes.
&&»k, School.
Schupe, made ready, intended.
Schare, did flieer.
Scrimpy fcant.
Seoul, to look grim*, by Icting
fall the Brows.
Aii, Seal.
Stil, Happinefs, Frofperity,'
Seimly, comely.
to fcatter.
Skairs or Jfeffrs, fcaroe,
Skaith, Lofs, Harm.
Sk<*pit, efcaped.
Scant, fcarcc.
£fe*]>, Scalp.
Skar, Scar.
<Sfee/f,
Shelf.
Sldander, Scandal.
Sklender, Slender.
Sklent, to go afide, to lie,
Skonce to cover, a Cover,
Skoldirt, parched.
tffeor?*,
Scdrn.
tf/Wcfe, Skitlifh.
,?&-«/, hang or knit the Brows.
Skink, to> fill Drink, item
ftrong Broth.
Skid, to, cry.
Seir or Sere j feverai
Sell, Cell
Seindle feldom.
Sen,
2§t
Sicbt, Sight.
ture.
Sckore,
K
becomes.
Sehcb, a Furrow or Ditch.
#ey,to try.
(SeJt^,
Schene, fhining.
Schent, troubJed, confounded,
fpoiled, ruined.
Scbeip, Sheep.
Scheild,
unhuked, item a
Schilling,
S
Giqffary.
Shepherd's Coat.
Sqheil,
"since.
.
Sene, fcen.
Sens, Senfe.
Shows, Scrolls.
,,
Skmdging or Skttrghg, Scour-
Senfyne, fince thatTim#„
Senxie, Signority.
Scnzior, Senior.
Sefoun, Seafon.
Seme or Jffr/y t» icfervc
g in g.
Skriife,
,
Scruf,
Skraip, Scrape.
afeiyfc* tj fcfeech.
*3f
SO
2.S2
Skujls,
Hand
Baskets.
.
made Excufe.
Scmand, to go about beg-
Sonxint ,
Lofs, Hurt.
Sla, Slay.
5/ê, Sloe.
Slaif, Slave.
,£/«#, didllit or cut.
i7y/f/;,
ging-
AWi,
',
Slak,an opening between Hills
mould.
Soverxne, Sovereign.
Soup, fweep.
Sound, fmooth.
„£/.*«>,
ilow.
^.c/T:,
fmooth.
Sleuth, cunning.
Slicht, Slight.
SU?, Sloutli.
Siskin, to quench.
Slogan ot Slughor»,tA Watchword, peculiar to a certain Name or Set of People,
ufed to know their Friends
from Enemies.
Slouch, a Husk.
Smaik, a filly pitiful Fellow.
Smeir, befmear.
Smidy, Smith's Work-houfe.
Smit, to infeft.
Smot, a Spot, as of Greafe on
Cloatbs.
Smorit, /mothered.
Smuke, SmoakSmyt, a finail Spot.
Smyle, to fmile".
Snack, clever,
.&.•<? z/f, to f peak tartly.
v
Spae, to prephefy.
Spans, wane from SuckSpate or Spait, Land Flood or
Torrent.
Spang, to leap.
Spavie, Stiffnefs in the Hams,
a Hoife Difeafe.
Spa ul, Spald, the Shoulder.
Speik, to fpeak.
Speil, to climb.
Speir, to ask, item a Spear.'
Spewce, ths Buttery.
Speuzie, Spain.
SpiJ7, to fpoil.
Spirting, a very fmall Fifli.
Sound, fmooth.
Spowt, a Gufh.
Spray, Sprigs, Bufiies.
Spring, a Tune.
Spulxie, Spoil, item to fpoil.
Sprent, a Spring, to fpring as
a Clock.
Sp«/e, a Weaver's Shuttk.
Squeil, Squ«eek.
Sneir, to fnore.
Smll, {harpSnift 1 to {hew Difpleafure
by difdaioful Looks.
a'Womans Headband
for binding
T
Sank, a Wreath of Straw ufei
as a Cufliion, or a Load
Sadie.
Skum, Scim.
Snude,
S
Glojfary.
Skugry, in Hidlings.
back the Hair.
Spunk, a Spark of Fire.
Spynand, Spinning.
Stane, StoneS-^»£^Sting.
Stakts', Piles of Corn.
Soir, Sore.
SMI,
Solace, Recreation.
Stallwart, Robuft.
Stakkzr, Stagger.
Soliji, to fo licit e.
or fo»fs }
pinefs.
So.fi.ce
Luck,
Hap-
ftole-
Starke ftrong.
Stay,
U
S
St*w,
T E
Gloffary.
Stay, Streight, Steep.
ftole.
&nte, Soot,
Suth, Truth.
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Steir, ftir.
Swaird, the Grafy Surface of
the Ground.
Stevd, long Stryde.
Stoat, a\\a\ fweat.
Stern ,Star.
Swankie, fouple Youngfter.
Srei'iw, the Voice.
Smeir, lazy, /Jew* tofwear.
Swsirnefs, Lafinefs.
Steik, to fhut.
Sting or St a fig, a Pol.
Stirll, a big Ball-Calf
S;ot, Bullock, z'iew a Notch
Mufick.
Haft,
ha-ftylie.
Sir »»?., Swim.
Styo^w, Faint.
a tall Wenches a
item, a. Scoundrel.
Swyth, or ftoith, foon.
S'our, Duft in Motion.
Stowr,Throng of Battle.
Stoup, Prop or Pillar.
S'ow«, ftolen.
Sf«/g'^ young Horfe.
Swyngeor,
SyiV,
Times.
Strang, ftrong.
Strae, Straw.
Sir*k, did ftrike.
Syke, a Water Ditch.
Sym.mer, Summer.
Sy«ff, afterward, thea.
S/re, Sire, Father.
S'.rinkil, to
S_yte,
fprinkle-
Strynd, ftrain, item Kindred.
Stalwart^ large and ftrong.
Stalkers, fturdy Beggars.
Stude, ftood.
Study, Smith's Anvil.
S^wr^/, liout and ftrong.
Stuff, Vexation.
Sty me, Small Sight.
Sua,
A.
TAE, Toe.
TWj, Toes.
TacU, Taught.
Tallon, to Tallow or Greafe,
Tald
Tauld,
Toad.
or
TW^,
Stypand, Benefice.
Ray
Sorrow.
T
^
Stynt, to
told.
Tafcior, Taylor.
or hold.
Ckfps or Buckles.
"Targe, a Shieii.
T*«rj"»ra, to refufe.
Targdrti,
fo.
Sukkar, SugarSu'ub or Suth, Truth.
Suld,(hau\i.
.
jW^Tallow.
Su ne,fon e,{oon..
Tawfy,
Sv)*pitj featured.
Ta%,,& Scourge ot
Swats, Small-bear or DregS%v*nkie$, cliver
lows-
j
young Fel-
Sk»», fome.
Suhie, to foil, ztew, Soil,
Land.
iupone, fuppofe.
'
•
Swz'ifc,
little
Cup.
little
';
Whip*
a Rope qr Band for
Hotfes.
Telxie, a Cut of Beef.
Tedder,
Tene, Anger.
Tent, to notice.
Teugh, tugh.
Teyndj Anger.
.
T O
sS4
Thae,
W
Qkffaty.
A
Trantals, Nig-nays.
Trattlesy filly Tales.
thofe.
"Xpair, their ? there.
Tbairin, within.
:
Tbxirout, without.
T><*/far,draglcd.
Trayn, Train or Lead.
Tbay,
Treacbour or treicbour , treach. •
thofe,
erous.
XKf, Thigh.
jTaiV,
Trete or trek, treat.
thefe.
Tbocbt, thought, tho'*.
TôZe, to {urrer.
Tbratvatt, or traw*rt 9
Ttetie, intreating.
Trew,
t
crofs.
Thrawis, Throws.
Tr.'ra'ivn, crofs,
Thrazvit vult,
ill natured Countenance.
Tbrefe, in Corn, twenty four
Sheaves ; applied to other
Things
it
means a great
Tryme, handfgme.
Trymbill, Tremble.
an Appointment.
Tung, Tongue.
Take, took.
Tumi, empty, item, to empty.
Tioay or rwae, two.
Twhh, Touch.
Tryjt,
deal.
Thing,
true.
TWjjj neat.
Troxa, believe.
Truncheon, Head or Piece ef
a Spear.
Trumpours, Deceivers.
to %"/ring, or
Throng.
Tkrople, the'Wirid Pipe.
Tbyne ) thine, item thirice.
Third,
The Noife rather
-
'
frronger
than fharp
that
Things make that come
on other with Force and
Troyne, to twine.
Tyde, Tide.
"Quickneft.-
Tyfce, a
Ticht, handfome, tight.
XijTi to A"ort with gentle
Touches, paring ?nd the
like.
TMz%
L.ofe.
2 ilk,
Loll.
TV*-/, to give
a fmall fharp
Stroke, it4m to uncover.
T'rly mirly, a Whirlygig.
Tittar.t vîhst.
Tod,
a Fox.
Dog.
Tymmer, Timber.
Tyneôt
£z'»e,
Lofs.
Tyr,e,teinot tene, Anger,
T>»t,lofti
T^re,ftreight,foon, quickly.
W
WA,
A.
Wall.
Wad or fF<^> Wager.
f^w, Woe.
Toder, the other.
JViefu, woeful.
Toitsm toy is* Freekg.
Telhalb,* Prifnn.
Wag, Shake.
I&ivdy, theAtfe
Waif, Wave.
Tprv'is,
W<*i}\ ionly, alone.
Tbwej&
'fewm/;:^ T.Yi&ie Months.
Waik
W
wait
Waitb, wandredor itrayed.
Wakryfe, little enclined to
r£e/w
fleeping
a l '-, the Choice, to choife.
W
WAdy would.
Walop, to Galop.
Waliowit, withered.
WW^
ture, or the moil: worthlefs
of a Number.
W*me, Womb.
W*u, pale„j'iewj went.
WanfuMtym
Houfe.
,
(ward.
Wimple, to told tack and
Wimiing, Dwellmg.
torft-
Windows.
Wirdy.ot wordy t worthy.
Wirk, to work.
Winy, to wory.
Iff///, to know.
Win/>ocks,
J*W, a Wood"..
Won, to dwell,
Wond, dwelt.
nurfed.
worthlefs.
xvJtin
285
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Wi.lj'om, wild.
Wally.gowdy, great Jev ell.
Wxlydraig, a pityful Crea-
Wanwomh,
Y
Widdert, withered.
Wtddy oxWody,x\it Gallows.
Wie, little.
Widdyfozv, Gallows fac'd.
Widdill, an uneafy rcftlefs
Motion.
Will, wild.
|arge.
W<*ne or
W
Glofary.
I
Waik, weak,
Warden, Guardian.
Wt.nt, thought or fuppofel.
r
oi(it, courted.
tVrak, Wreck.
W.trifo r, y Reward.'
Wowf, Wolf.
Wark, Work.
Warlo, a Wretch.
Wraik,
Wxnflers, Venus Gamefters.
War/riife, uneafy.
'
'
fôtr, a
Note of Wonder.
to vex.
Wraith, the Wafte.
•Wj.vie, to fret.
Wa.te.ax
W
w ?i>,toknow.
Wr-nh wrote.
a'Wave.
Wedfst t to Mortgage.
wrong.
Wroubt, Wroueht.
8^1/, well
Jf^-jB^'ef-j'aCurie or
Wand,
Wylie, cunning-
7-f'uw,a Wall,
JVrAtig,
fuppofed.
Wave.
mir War.
Wyfa
Weird, Fortune.
P%, Rain, item to wet.
Wyfts, Wives.
Wyt, to blame, the Caufe or
t
J^Vwe or xwitij to
thmk
fuppofe.''
Wh"d, go away.
K'Wr/yycautiouUy.
Wyjsit,
Wight,
a Pcrfon.
Wicker, Willow.
WJ
}
Blame.
Wys, wife.
Jfj;/}\ a Handful of Straw, «r
!
the like.
wiped or woped.
Wicht, clever.
WicY.t,
or
Wife.
mad.
Vafoiant, val&ait,
Yanifc, vanifh.
Udd?r, other.
Vdziet, ayaited,
Vsmnn-t
Z A
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Glojfary.
Zameyt
Venomit, Envenomed.
Vertew- Virtue.
Ug,
View
Ulie, Oyl.
Utidocht, one
nothing.
£*//,
ye'll.
Ze/^, went.
that can
do
Zetl, ye will.
2eiW,
yield.
Zeir y Year.
unarmed.
Ur>qnit, UDckaredor unpaid.
Utificker, uufure.
Union.
Ze//>, yelp, cry like a Dog;
Zemeriy Ycameo.
ZeJ?m*e, Yeiternight.
Zef, Yet or Gate.
Zing, young.
Zit, or Zet, yet.
Vyce, Vice.
Vyle,
a GrumblinS
Zdlow, Yellow.
of.
XJpf(tlziet y undefined.
TJt>zeon 3
U
like a Child.
Ugfome, loatlifome.
TJtigeird,
make
Zejye, item yea.
to loath.
Vtjjy, take a
Z
to
vile.
Ztjierday, Yciteiday.
Zolden, holden.
Zofee,
YCE,
Idle, idle.
ZW,
Tie, Ifle.
XW,
Yoak.
ZonkerS) Youngfters.
Zon, yon.
howl.
Ice.
53>«i$,
India.
Youth.
Tre, Ire.
Yel&*d, Ireland.
Zoidhbeid, Youth-head.
Zule, Cbriitmas.
2Vc»w Iron.
Zung, young
Zyrne, to
Z A
A TT
or
cam
ot crudle as
new Cheafe.
zap t flwrp
fet,
hungry.
Mj
B-
Some
old Scorj
Words
not explained in this GlofTary,
through Inadveriency in collecting and ranging of them, and
fome few, for which we can plead a better Excufe, (hall be
annexed, with fuch in the third Volume as are not explained in this, which Volume is to be published in a fhort
Time, confifticg chiefly of Satyres and Interludes, wrote
by Sir David Lindfay of the Mount, Lyon King at Arms,
and afred on the flay Green between JLeith and Edinburgh,
with feveial other Pieces neve* before printed.
CON-
CONTENTS
OF THE
Second
Page
NE W
Years Gift to
To his Heart.
A
Volume.
Queen Mary.
if
18
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of Wowing.
The Golden Targe.
Erajl)
Lerges of this neiv Tears
Dumbafs Dergy
Day.
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47
50
King J a m e s V.
Fly ting of Dunbar and Kennedy.
Dunbars Second to Kennedy*
Kennedy^ Second to Dunbar.
The merry Taftment of Mr. Aniro Ksnmdy.
to
Difcration in Asking.
Difcration in Giving,
61
76
82,
~
84
87
Difcration in Taking.
On
Detraclionând Deming
Sons exyld by Pride.
90
9$
95
98
.
Satyre on Covetoufnefs.
The Cherry and the Slae.
The Jufting and Debate, bet%v'xt William
and John Sym.
Monet h of May,
fon-j
Off the
Adam17?
1 8tf
Jjhnie
2 8g
CONTENT
Johnie Armftrang.
Headfirang Touth advifit to keip a
Hand.
The blate Lover.
Love a Leveller.
T^ Flower of Womanhood,
Donald Oivyrs Epitaph.
A
Comparifon.
XX>* Solfequium or Sun Flower.
T£* Firfi Pfahn.
The Twenty third Pfalm.
Defer iption of the Pedder OJfes.
Jocks Advice to his Dad.
T&e Red 5^^?ir Ito/'i.
The Eagle and Rob en Redbreajl.
Hay Trix, Trym
On the Mefs.
On
Purgatory.
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go Trix.
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