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AGANIS THE WEIRIS.
307
England is glaid quhone it is tald
Of Scottis pe diuisioun 65
and for oure folichnes pai hald
Oure doingis in dirisioun
Bot wald we weill considdir
Thai hound ws ay togiddir
Makand pair awin prouisioun 70
ffor oure grit scaythe and lesioun
The grip of pame is sliddir
3it pe ane pairt in pame dependis
The vper on france for pair supple
Ilkane fra vper pame defendis 75
as fra ane cowmoun enneme
I pray god I heir tell
we gre amang our sell
And syne pat all pis haill cuntre
Off france and england bayt^ war fre 80
'with pame na mair to mell
Quhone pat pe ane pe vper wraikis
The quhilk will not be done lychtlie
wz’t^out trawell and mony straikis
Bot quhat sail pis wirk finalie 85
Bot rais ane deidlie feid
Off (\uhi\k we haue na neid
In pe mene tyme grit polecie
and gud townis distroyit be
and mony man ly deid 90
Thairfore my lordis had vpe 3our handis
Thocht of ^our will 3c want sum thing
Or be distroyit men and landis
q«/«lk wilbe hurtfull to pe king
ffor his weill it is maist
That 3e aggre in haist
95
307
England is glaid quhone it is tald
Of Scottis pe diuisioun 65
and for oure folichnes pai hald
Oure doingis in dirisioun
Bot wald we weill considdir
Thai hound ws ay togiddir
Makand pair awin prouisioun 70
ffor oure grit scaythe and lesioun
The grip of pame is sliddir
3it pe ane pairt in pame dependis
The vper on france for pair supple
Ilkane fra vper pame defendis 75
as fra ane cowmoun enneme
I pray god I heir tell
we gre amang our sell
And syne pat all pis haill cuntre
Off france and england bayt^ war fre 80
'with pame na mair to mell
Quhone pat pe ane pe vper wraikis
The quhilk will not be done lychtlie
wz’t^out trawell and mony straikis
Bot quhat sail pis wirk finalie 85
Bot rais ane deidlie feid
Off (\uhi\k we haue na neid
In pe mene tyme grit polecie
and gud townis distroyit be
and mony man ly deid 90
Thairfore my lordis had vpe 3our handis
Thocht of ^our will 3c want sum thing
Or be distroyit men and landis
q«/«lk wilbe hurtfull to pe king
ffor his weill it is maist
That 3e aggre in haist
95
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Maitland folio manuscript > Volume 1, 1919 > (341) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107623900 |
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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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