Blair Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

E B I S T I L
NOS oirrdheirc onorach ata fds
agas dobhi riamh arbuil, ag na da-
oinibh ghnathuigheas faothur noobuir
dodhenamh, dochum antfaothair fin
dodhul adtarbha dona poibleachaibh
agas donacineadhachaibh agas da fli-
ocht agas dalorg ina ndiaigh, toradli
antfaothairfin dothiodhlucadh dona
tighearnaibh no dona cairdibh no do-
na cumpanachaibh rera cofmhula an-
faotharfin fein. agas is fearr dairidhe air
agas ifmo arambi cumaoin ghraidh fhir
dhenta antfaothair. Ataimse a thriath
tairife agas a thighearrna dingmhalta
ag leanmhuin anofa so go feadh mo
chumhachta : agas agathuigfm cofamh-
lacht anadhbhairfe re tindtind dhiad-
hafa, agas hfeabhus dairidhe ar dheagh-
thiodhlucadh agas me'd do chomaoine
graidh imarcaidh oram, agas ar anadh-
bhurfm do condcus damhfa gur bhin-
denta damh anfaothar beagfa neoch is
cedtoradh dom intleacht do thoirbhe-
art agas do thiodhlucadh duitfe a thig-
hearrna. oir do dhearbh do bheatha dhi
adhafa
EPISTLE
It is an excellent, honourable custom which is now and ever was
followed, by men who practised to labour or work, in order to
make that labour to become profitable for the people and for the
nations, and for the race and generation after them, to dedicate
the fruit of their labour to the nobles or to the friends or to
the companions who agreed with their work, and who were most
worthy and who were most entitled t<> the love of him who did the
work. I now, most worthy nobleman and excellent Lord, fol-
lowing this practice so far as in my power, and understanding how
well this subject agrees with your heavenly mind, and how entirely
you have deserved a testimony and an expression uf love much
merited from me, and on that account I saw that it would be proper
for me to make over and to dedicate to you this little work of mine,
which is the first fruit of my mind, my Lord, for your religious life has