Genealogy of the family of Forbes

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are rather unseemly, and so areMadameDoutebour's appearances
at the dances. The Minstreh, &c. seem to have entertained the
Courtiers nightly in the great Hall ; the guests of which, with
all their hopes and fears, are minutely described.
Some sings, some dances, some tell stories,
Some late at ewis brings in the moryis,
Some flyrds, some fenyis, and some flatteris,
Some playis the fuil, and all owt chatters ;
Some man, rausand by the waw,
Luicks as he might nocht do at aw;
Some standis jn a nuick and rowns.
For covetice ane uther near swoons ;
Some levis as lie wald ga wud
For heit desyr of warld's gud';
Some at the mess levis all devotion,
And busy labours for promotion ;
Some has their advocatts in Cbaumir,
And taks themself thairofi* no glowmir.
Picture of the Court of James IV.-^MaUlan&
ManuscripU
As to the Court of James V. the whole drift of the Courtiers
seems to have been to procure him low, or various amours ; one
recommending himself, by saying he knows of a lass fit for the
King, in Fife, and another recommending a visit, to see one at
Stirling*
* There was few of that garrrison
That learned him ane gude lesson,
!Put some to clack, and some to clatter,
Some made the fule, and some did flatter :
Quod ane devil, stik me with ane knife,
Bot, Sir, I know ane maid in Fife —
One of the lustiest wanton lasses,
Quhairto, Sir, by Goddis' blude she passes,
Had thy toung, brother, quod ane utherj
I knaw a fairer by fifteen futherj