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III.
[O FAREST LADY, O SWETAST LADY.]
O farest lady, o swetast lady, o blisful lady, hewy^nis quheyne, F- iii- t>-
o strene so brycht, J>at gyfys lycht til hewyne & haly kyrk,
J>i help, Ipi my^t, grant ws ful ryckt; Raik throw )?ar clowdrk dirk;
fra hel sa fel convoy ws clene, one ]?e mare pus most I meyne.
thow ruby red, pat rasis ded and grants synnam par lyf, 5
for til remeid pe fendw pleid quha can pi help discrif?
but pe, lady, quha may sustene par warldly lustw haith scharp &
kene?
}>ow wel of grace, ostend pi face, quhe« ded sal ws persew;
away J^ow chafe of fendw pe brafe, ask at pi sone Ih^u,
one ruyd his blud J>at bled betwene for our traspafe befor ]un
eyne.1 10
now lady myne, pi ere inclynd? to me, Jh s^nritour.
quhew I go hyne, hef my saul fra pyne; pov kep it in pi cwr
In place quhar grace ay growis grene foreurV In ioy par til
contene:
o farest lady, o swetast lady, o blisful lady, hewynnis quheyne !
1 MS. J)i neyne.
9
III.
[O FAREST LADY, O SWETAST LADY.]
O farest lady, o swetast lady, o blisful lady, hewy^nis quheyne, F- iii- t>-
o strene so brycht, J>at gyfys lycht til hewyne & haly kyrk,
J>i help, Ipi my^t, grant ws ful ryckt; Raik throw )?ar clowdrk dirk;
fra hel sa fel convoy ws clene, one ]?e mare pus most I meyne.
thow ruby red, pat rasis ded and grants synnam par lyf, 5
for til remeid pe fendw pleid quha can pi help discrif?
but pe, lady, quha may sustene par warldly lustw haith scharp &
kene?
}>ow wel of grace, ostend pi face, quhe« ded sal ws persew;
away J^ow chafe of fendw pe brafe, ask at pi sone Ih^u,
one ruyd his blud J>at bled betwene for our traspafe befor ]un
eyne.1 10
now lady myne, pi ere inclynd? to me, Jh s^nritour.
quhew I go hyne, hef my saul fra pyne; pov kep it in pi cwr
In place quhar grace ay growis grene foreurV In ioy par til
contene:
o farest lady, o swetast lady, o blisful lady, hewynnis quheyne !
1 MS. J)i neyne.
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| Description | Together with the Chepman and Myllar prints. Edited by the late George Stevenson. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1918. A "supplementary volume" to The poems of Alexander Montgomerie, edited by James Cranstoun, and published by the Scottish Text Society in 1886-7. Three of the earliest collections of Scottish verse of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Preface by H. W. Meikle, who completed the introduction and notes after the editor's death. |
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