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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
wz’t/z wisdome and foirsycht
Thai wald set all pair mycht
Be grit trawell and wordis wyse
Ane remedie wald sone devys 35
and set all thing at ryc/zt
Bot now pair is not ane allace
That I ken in pis regioun
That aper hes hap wit or grace
To mak concord and vnioun 40
Thairfore god send remeid
and help ws in oure neid
ffor mony hes Inventioun
ffor to nwreis dissentioun
and foster deidlie feid 45
The grittest cans of pis discord
Is for our synnis pvneismezzt
wzt^ mouthe we say we luif pe lord
and far fra him in oure intent
To speik of god delytis 50
In doing him dispytis
Reddie to reif ane man his rent
not dreidand godis ludgement
as fein3eit ypochritis
I ken nane now for godis luife 55
To do ane wrang pat will forbeir
Ip. 270] Nor 3it will stop for to remufe
His nychtbour bayt& fra land and geir
and na thing by pai settit
how wrangouslie pai get it 60
ffor of pair god pai haue na feir
To gar pair nychtbour leif pmjueir
ffra pai haue intromettit
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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
wz’t/z wisdome and foirsycht
Thai wald set all pair mycht
Be grit trawell and wordis wyse
Ane remedie wald sone devys 35
and set all thing at ryc/zt
Bot now pair is not ane allace
That I ken in pis regioun
That aper hes hap wit or grace
To mak concord and vnioun 40
Thairfore god send remeid
and help ws in oure neid
ffor mony hes Inventioun
ffor to nwreis dissentioun
and foster deidlie feid 45
The grittest cans of pis discord
Is for our synnis pvneismezzt
wzt^ mouthe we say we luif pe lord
and far fra him in oure intent
To speik of god delytis 50
In doing him dispytis
Reddie to reif ane man his rent
not dreidand godis ludgement
as fein3eit ypochritis
I ken nane now for godis luife 55
To do ane wrang pat will forbeir
Ip. 270] Nor 3it will stop for to remufe
His nychtbour bayt& fra land and geir
and na thing by pai settit
how wrangouslie pai get it 60
ffor of pair god pai haue na feir
To gar pair nychtbour leif pmjueir
ffra pai haue intromettit
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Maitland folio manuscript > Volume 1, 1919 > (340) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107623888 |
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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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