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THE MAKCULLOCH MANUSCRIPT.
me think ful lath forsut^ to tyne
pal I haf bo^t wztfi mekyl pyne;
pe defaut it sal be J?ine
gyf I pe thorne :
ask me^cy, pi fader am I, | and )?ow my borne, 30
Lo, quhow I bald wp my handzr braid,
pe til rasaif ay reddy maid,
J?at I grit luf one to pe haid,
]?ow ma weil .
sum luf agane I wald ful fane | J>ow vvald . . .35
In steid of luf, I ask noo$t pe
bot fane Ju sy«nis for to fie,
And lyf ay in til honeste,
batik be nycht & d[ay];
pane my blyft pow sal no^t myft [ pat lestA a[y]. 40
THE MAKCULLOCH MANUSCRIPT.
me think ful lath forsut^ to tyne
pal I haf bo^t wztfi mekyl pyne;
pe defaut it sal be J?ine
gyf I pe thorne :
ask me^cy, pi fader am I, | and )?ow my borne, 30
Lo, quhow I bald wp my handzr braid,
pe til rasaif ay reddy maid,
J?at I grit luf one to pe haid,
]?ow ma weil .
sum luf agane I wald ful fane | J>ow vvald . . .35
In steid of luf, I ask noo$t pe
bot fane Ju sy«nis for to fie,
And lyf ay in til honeste,
batik be nycht & d[ay];
pane my blyft pow sal no^t myft [ pat lestA a[y]. 40
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray mss > (64) |
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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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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES1.65 |
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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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| Description | Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts. |
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