Ancient Scotish Poems: Never Before in Print. But Now Published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland, ... Comprising Pieces Written from about 1420 Till 1586. With Large Notes, and a Glossary. Prefixed are An Essay on the Origin of Scotish Poetry. A List of All the Scotish Poets, ... And an Appendix is Added, Containing, ... an Account of the Contents of the Maitland and Bannatyne MSS. ...Charles Dilly; and for William Creech at Edinburgh, 1786 - 548 pages |
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Page lxxii - Aleyn maketh redy al his gere, And on an hors the sak he caste anon. Forth goth Aleyn the clerk, and also John, With good swerd and with bokeler by hir syde.
Page 70 - Thairfoir scho wald nane uther cumpany, Becaus Freyr Johne all nicht with hir wald ly : Quhilk duelland was within that nobill toun ; Ane gray freyr he was of greit renoun. He governit all the haly abbasy : Silver and gold he had aboundantlie.
Page cii - ... the slightest scruple, asserts "he had his education at the University of St Andrews, where, after he had finished the course of his studies in philosophy, for his further improvement, his Parents sent him Abroad ; and having travelled, (as he himself tells us,) through England, France, Italy, and Germany, he returned to his native country about the year 1514."* All this, however, is nothing but bold assertion, without the least evidence adduced to support it.
Page 329 - With gartens^f of ane new maneir ; To gar thair courtlines be knawin ; And all for newfangilnes of geir. Sumtyme thay will beir up thair gown, To schaw thair wylecot hingeand down ; And sumtyme bayth thay will upbeir, To scaw thair hois* of blak or broun ; And all for newfangilnes of geir.
Page 56 - Sa sais the curat of our kirk, that knew me full ying: He is our famous to be fals, that fair worthy prelot ; I salbe laith to lat him le, quhill I may luke furth. I gert the buthman obey, ther wes no bute ellis ; He maid me ryght hie reverens, fra he my rycht knew : For thocht I say it my self, the severance wes mekle Betuix his bastard blude and my birth noble.
Page 326 - I wend that he, in word and deid, For me, his kynfman, fould have wrocht. Bot to my fpeiche he tuke na heid: Neirnes of blude he fett at nocht.
Page 129 - Ws succour send, that war the croun of thorne, 30 That with the gift of grace it may be gydit ! For, but thy help, this kinrik is forlorne.
Page 53 - Now tydis me for to talk; my taill it is nixt: God my spreit now inspir and my speche quykkin, And send me sentence to say, substantious and noble; Sa that my preching may pers your perverst hertis, And mak yow mekar to men in maneris and conditiounis.
Page 328 - SUM wyfis of the burroustoun* Sa wondir vane ar, and wantoun, In warld thay wait not quhat to weir ; On claythis thay wair monye a croun ; And all for newfangilnes of geir. Thair bodyes bravelie thay attyir, Of carnal lust to eik the fyir. I fairlief quhy thai have no feir To gar men deime quhat thay desyre ; And all for newfangilnes of geir.
Page 425 - ... to maken holes, so moche dagging of sheres, with the superfluitee in length of the foresaide gounes, trailing in the dong and in the myre, on hors and eke on foot, as wel of man as of woman, that all thilke trailing is veraily (as in effect) wasted, consumed, thredbare, and rotten with dong...