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KING HART.
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With pat the foursum fayn thay wald haue fled
Agane vnto pair castell and pair king
Thai gave ane schout and sone thai haue pame sched
And bisselie thay kan pame bundin bring
Agane vnto ^air quene and bandis thring 205
about thair handis and 1 feit so fast
quhill pat pai maid pame wz't/2 pair tormenting
Haly of pair lyvis half agast1
[p. 233a] The watchis on the kingis walks hes sene
The chassing of the folk and pair suppryse 210
vpstart king hart in propir yre and tein
And baldlie bad his folk all wzt^ him ryse
I sail xioch\. sit he said and se pame thryse
Discomfit clein my men and put at vnder
Na we sail wrik ws on ane vther wyfi> 215
Set we be few / to thame be fifty bounder
Than out thay raid all to ane randoun richt
This courtlie king and all his cuz/zlie ost
his buirelie bainer brathit vp on hicht
And out thay blew wzt/z brag and mekle host 220
That lady and hir lynnage suld be lost
Thay cryit on hicht thair soin^e1 wounder lowde
Thus come thay keynlie carpand one the cost
Thay preik pai prance as princis pzzt war woude
Dame plesance hes hir folk arrayit weill 225
fra p«t scho saw pai wald battell abyde
So bewtie wzt/z hir wangarde gane to reill
The greitest of thair ost scho can our ryde
Syn fresche apport come on the tother syd
So bisselie scho wes to battell boune 230
That all pat ever scho micht ourtak pat tyde
Hors and men wz't^ brount scho straik all doun
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26l
With pat the foursum fayn thay wald haue fled
Agane vnto pair castell and pair king
Thai gave ane schout and sone thai haue pame sched
And bisselie thay kan pame bundin bring
Agane vnto ^air quene and bandis thring 205
about thair handis and 1 feit so fast
quhill pat pai maid pame wz't/2 pair tormenting
Haly of pair lyvis half agast1
[p. 233a] The watchis on the kingis walks hes sene
The chassing of the folk and pair suppryse 210
vpstart king hart in propir yre and tein
And baldlie bad his folk all wzt^ him ryse
I sail xioch\. sit he said and se pame thryse
Discomfit clein my men and put at vnder
Na we sail wrik ws on ane vther wyfi> 215
Set we be few / to thame be fifty bounder
Than out thay raid all to ane randoun richt
This courtlie king and all his cuz/zlie ost
his buirelie bainer brathit vp on hicht
And out thay blew wzt/z brag and mekle host 220
That lady and hir lynnage suld be lost
Thay cryit on hicht thair soin^e1 wounder lowde
Thus come thay keynlie carpand one the cost
Thay preik pai prance as princis pzzt war woude
Dame plesance hes hir folk arrayit weill 225
fra p«t scho saw pai wald battell abyde
So bewtie wzt/z hir wangarde gane to reill
The greitest of thair ost scho can our ryde
Syn fresche apport come on the tother syd
So bisselie scho wes to battell boune 230
That all pat ever scho micht ourtak pat tyde
Hors and men wz't^ brount scho straik all doun
1 Sic.
2 This page and the next have been re-inked.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Maitland folio manuscript > Volume 1, 1919 > (293) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107623324 |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.7 |
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| Description | Containing poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others / edited by W.A. Craigie. 2 volumes. Volume 1 contains the complete text of the Maitland folio manuscript from the original in the Pepysian library, Magdalene college, Cambridge, and Volume 2, a full description of the manuscript, together with textual notes, vocabulary, and other relevant matter. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.7, 20 |
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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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| Description | Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts. |
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