Robert Henryson: Orpheus and Eurydice with Robert Henryson: The Want of Wise Men (Page 7 of 20)
(p.155) And dyapason symple and duplycate
And dyapente componyt with a dys
This mak .v. of thre multiplicate
This mery musik / and mellifluate.
Complete and full wyth nowmeris od & evyn
Is causit be the moving of the hevyn
Off sik musik to wryte I do bot dote
Tharfor at this mater a stra I lay
For in my lyf I coud newir syng a note
Bot I will tell how orpheus tuke the way
To seke his wyf atour the grauis gray
Hungry and calde our mony wilsum wane
Wyth outyn gyde. he and his harp allane
He passit furth the space of xx. dayis
Fer and full ferther than I can tell
And ay he fand stretis and redy wayis
Tyll at the last vnto the yett of hell
He come. and thare he fand a portar fell
With thre hedis was callit Cerberus
A hund of hell a monster meruailus
Than Orpheus began to be agast
Quhen he beheld that vgly hellis hunde
He tuke his harp. & on it playit fast
Till at the last throu suetenes of the sounde
The dog slepit and fell vnto the grounde
And Orpheus atour his wame in stall
And nethir mare he went as ye here sall
Than come he till ane rywir wonder
depe
Our it a brig / and on it sisteris thre
