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and fowne suld euer be salf fra pe huntaris. Thir actis the Fo. lxxxv.
king causit be obsmiit, detesting na thing mare pan be sic
murthure to defraude him and men of gude of sic plesand
solace. Quhen he vakit fra hunting he gafe him to vthir
40 honest plesouris as pe tyme requirit, and luffit weill honest m.l.t. 1776
musicianis and piesing singaris, specially schawmaris and
trumpettis. Bot finalie be tresoun of ane menstrale of pe
Ilis, his secrete cubiculare, he was murdrist on pe nycht. The
wachis, hering pe schout in pe kingfs chawmer, comprehendit
the tratoure, and accusing him of pe kingfs slauchter, how
beit he gaif to him credit of his liffe. Quharefore suppoift he
was comptit amang pe kingfs traist familiaris afore, he behuffit
now like ane tresonabill inemye be pynyt with exquisite
tormentfs, in exempill till vtheris, how wikkit cryme is to
pollute pare handis in pe sacrate blude of pe king. To pis
ansuerit pe menstraill: “ The king be extreme rigours in
50 Argathele distroyit grete parte of my freyndis, and now be
vengeance pareof I haue satifyit my furioft mynde, as I devisit
mony dayis before. Be this folie interprise I haue now swageit
pe vehement affectioun quhilk sa hevilie troublit my mynde.
I am satifyit and in my mynde the vehement desire of ven¬
geance is mytigate. I covate nocAt to lif. Wirk on me 3oure
pie sure with all crudelite and tormentis. My mynde is now
als constant to sustene pe dede, as it was afore to murdrift
3oure king. I sail nocht be sa sare torment, bot in pe extreme
poynt of dede I sail reiose pat I haue revengit the iniuris
done be pat wikkit king to my freyndfs and kynnyftmen.”
60 Quhen sic wourdis war said, at command of pe barouns his fete
war knyt to sindry horft qw/n'lk, drevin in contrare partis, raif
his body in pecis. Eftir Ethod tuke pe crowne he regnit
xxxiij 3eris. His corps with princelie pompe (as was pe maner)
was beryit in pe feild of Evon. His regnne durit to the tyme
of Septimius Seuerus, Romane emprio7<r. Mony nobill men,
excellent in vertewe and cufmyng, war liffand quhen Ethod
brukit pe crowne : Galen medicinare, decoring pe werkis of
Hippocrace, of grete fame in his dayis bot mekill mare famous
to pe posterite. In oure tyme diuerft bukis of medicine ar
.sene be him intitulit. Apollyne pe famous oratoure, qw/hlk
285
and fowne suld euer be salf fra pe huntaris. Thir actis the Fo. lxxxv.
king causit be obsmiit, detesting na thing mare pan be sic
murthure to defraude him and men of gude of sic plesand
solace. Quhen he vakit fra hunting he gafe him to vthir
40 honest plesouris as pe tyme requirit, and luffit weill honest m.l.t. 1776
musicianis and piesing singaris, specially schawmaris and
trumpettis. Bot finalie be tresoun of ane menstrale of pe
Ilis, his secrete cubiculare, he was murdrist on pe nycht. The
wachis, hering pe schout in pe kingfs chawmer, comprehendit
the tratoure, and accusing him of pe kingfs slauchter, how
beit he gaif to him credit of his liffe. Quharefore suppoift he
was comptit amang pe kingfs traist familiaris afore, he behuffit
now like ane tresonabill inemye be pynyt with exquisite
tormentfs, in exempill till vtheris, how wikkit cryme is to
pollute pare handis in pe sacrate blude of pe king. To pis
ansuerit pe menstraill: “ The king be extreme rigours in
50 Argathele distroyit grete parte of my freyndis, and now be
vengeance pareof I haue satifyit my furioft mynde, as I devisit
mony dayis before. Be this folie interprise I haue now swageit
pe vehement affectioun quhilk sa hevilie troublit my mynde.
I am satifyit and in my mynde the vehement desire of ven¬
geance is mytigate. I covate nocAt to lif. Wirk on me 3oure
pie sure with all crudelite and tormentis. My mynde is now
als constant to sustene pe dede, as it was afore to murdrift
3oure king. I sail nocht be sa sare torment, bot in pe extreme
poynt of dede I sail reiose pat I haue revengit the iniuris
done be pat wikkit king to my freyndfs and kynnyftmen.”
60 Quhen sic wourdis war said, at command of pe barouns his fete
war knyt to sindry horft qw/n'lk, drevin in contrare partis, raif
his body in pecis. Eftir Ethod tuke pe crowne he regnit
xxxiij 3eris. His corps with princelie pompe (as was pe maner)
was beryit in pe feild of Evon. His regnne durit to the tyme
of Septimius Seuerus, Romane emprio7<r. Mony nobill men,
excellent in vertewe and cufmyng, war liffand quhen Ethod
brukit pe crowne : Galen medicinare, decoring pe werkis of
Hippocrace, of grete fame in his dayis bot mekill mare famous
to pe posterite. In oure tyme diuerft bukis of medicine ar
.sene be him intitulit. Apollyne pe famous oratoure, qw/hlk
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| Description | Edited by George Watson. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1946. An edition of a manuscript, orginally in the Skene Library at Mar Lodge, now in the possession of the Pierpont Morgan Library. The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and end and the missing portions were supplied from the 1541 edition of the Bellenden version. |
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