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CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR PRINTS.
In rome this romans crownyt is
lesu bryng ws till his blis
That lestis for owtyn ende
In all cure gardyn growis thare na flouris
Herbe nor tree y* frute has borne this yere
The levys ar doune schakyn with ye schouris
The fynkle fadit in oure grene herbere
The birdis y* bene wount to syngen here
In all this may vnese has songin thrise
And all of dangere is oure gardenere
And gentrise is put quite out of seruice
Quhat y* I mene be this I dar noght speke
For I na dare my hert it is so sare
Na neuer sail I me revenge na wreke
Bot on my self all thogh I suld forfar
Saufand beaute I can prise na mare
Of hyr y1 was wont to be gudeliest
And suth it is & sene in all our quhare
No erdly thing bot for a tyme may lest
Sen in this warld thare is no sekernes
Bot pas mon all & end mon euery thingis
I tak my leve at all vnstedfastnes
14. tobe. 18/thing is.
Explicit
13 a I ah t.
[Follow two blank leaves. No colophon or device.']
In rome this romans crownyt is
lesu bryng ws till his blis
That lestis for owtyn ende
In all cure gardyn growis thare na flouris
Herbe nor tree y* frute has borne this yere
The levys ar doune schakyn with ye schouris
The fynkle fadit in oure grene herbere
The birdis y* bene wount to syngen here
In all this may vnese has songin thrise
And all of dangere is oure gardenere
And gentrise is put quite out of seruice
Quhat y* I mene be this I dar noght speke
For I na dare my hert it is so sare
Na neuer sail I me revenge na wreke
Bot on my self all thogh I suld forfar
Saufand beaute I can prise na mare
Of hyr y1 was wont to be gudeliest
And suth it is & sene in all our quhare
No erdly thing bot for a tyme may lest
Sen in this warld thare is no sekernes
Bot pas mon all & end mon euery thingis
I tak my leve at all vnstedfastnes
14. tobe. 18/thing is.
Explicit
13 a I ah t.
[Follow two blank leaves. No colophon or device.']
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray mss > (188) |
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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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