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LIBER SEXTUS
319
quharefore sen he mycht nocM gif pece, mony of his folkis Fo.xcvil.
impreving ge lyig betuix him and Pichtis, he wald consent
to trewis for thre monethis; in quhilk tyme suld be lefull
70 to ge nobillis of athir nacioun paft and repaft without hurt
to consult quhat best in sic grave mater was to be determyt.
Quhen be ambassiatouris this ansuere at hame was schewin,
the king of Pichtis be avise of his nobillis thankfully resauit
ge trewis, tending employe his diligence to haue ge present
debate mytigate amang ge twa naciouns, sa lang togiddir
confederit, gat greter inconvenientis mycht be eschewit.
NocAtgeles be na lauboure, proclamacioun, command, terrouris,
nor punycioun, he mycht nocht provide, bot oftymes iupartyis,
slauchter, reiff and thift war maid, athir pepill for destructioun
of ge tothir lauborit sa mekill.
How Carance disputed Romanis of Britane ; how
be ambassiatouris he exponit to King Craithlinth
his desiris; how gai appoyntit ane meting, and
how Carawce recouncillit the kingzs of Scottis and
Pichtis. [Cap0 vj°]
Quhill in this sorte Scottis and Pichtis war intent to gare
awne perdicioun, Quintus Bassiane, Romane legate in
80 Britane, had mekill trubill. Ffor Carance (quham Ewtropius
callis Cawras) quhilklatelie before (as said is), fering punycioun fo.xcviii.
and for tresoun in his broder wilfully exilit the cuntre, reft m.l.t. 195&
fra Romanis the domynioun of Britane, expelling gare garnisoun
and putting game to grete pyne. Howbeit he was repute be
Romanis of obscure origin (for he dissymulit his kyn), 3it in
ordinance of wagis, in Illiric, Gallia and Italic he conquest
grete renowne ; he was with emprioure and senatouris sua
extemyt, gat for his vassalage gai thocht he mycht of resoun
hafe ane province in reull. And (as writis Ewtropius) he
was chargit be ge Empriowr Dioclesiane with garnysoun
defend ge coist of ge occiane sey about Armorik (now Litill
Britan3e) and Gallia fra iniuris of Ffrankfs and Saxons,
10 infesting ge sey in gai partis. Thus admirall to ane stark
319
quharefore sen he mycht nocM gif pece, mony of his folkis Fo.xcvil.
impreving ge lyig betuix him and Pichtis, he wald consent
to trewis for thre monethis; in quhilk tyme suld be lefull
70 to ge nobillis of athir nacioun paft and repaft without hurt
to consult quhat best in sic grave mater was to be determyt.
Quhen be ambassiatouris this ansuere at hame was schewin,
the king of Pichtis be avise of his nobillis thankfully resauit
ge trewis, tending employe his diligence to haue ge present
debate mytigate amang ge twa naciouns, sa lang togiddir
confederit, gat greter inconvenientis mycht be eschewit.
NocAtgeles be na lauboure, proclamacioun, command, terrouris,
nor punycioun, he mycht nocht provide, bot oftymes iupartyis,
slauchter, reiff and thift war maid, athir pepill for destructioun
of ge tothir lauborit sa mekill.
How Carance disputed Romanis of Britane ; how
be ambassiatouris he exponit to King Craithlinth
his desiris; how gai appoyntit ane meting, and
how Carawce recouncillit the kingzs of Scottis and
Pichtis. [Cap0 vj°]
Quhill in this sorte Scottis and Pichtis war intent to gare
awne perdicioun, Quintus Bassiane, Romane legate in
80 Britane, had mekill trubill. Ffor Carance (quham Ewtropius
callis Cawras) quhilklatelie before (as said is), fering punycioun fo.xcviii.
and for tresoun in his broder wilfully exilit the cuntre, reft m.l.t. 195&
fra Romanis the domynioun of Britane, expelling gare garnisoun
and putting game to grete pyne. Howbeit he was repute be
Romanis of obscure origin (for he dissymulit his kyn), 3it in
ordinance of wagis, in Illiric, Gallia and Italic he conquest
grete renowne ; he was with emprioure and senatouris sua
extemyt, gat for his vassalage gai thocht he mycht of resoun
hafe ane province in reull. And (as writis Ewtropius) he
was chargit be ge Empriowr Dioclesiane with garnysoun
defend ge coist of ge occiane sey about Armorik (now Litill
Britan3e) and Gallia fra iniuris of Ffrankfs and Saxons,
10 infesting ge sey in gai partis. Thus admirall to ane stark
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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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