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THE TRAITIE OF ORPHEUS.
221
P. 151. The nobilnes and grete magnificence
Off prince or lord quha list to magnify
His grete ancester and linyall descense
Suld first extoll and his genology
So that his hert he my11 enclyne thare by 5
The more / to vertu / and to worthynes
Herand reherse his eldirs gentilnes
It is contrair the lawis of nature
A gentill man to be degenerate
Noucht folowing of his progenitoure 10
The worthy reule / and the lordly estate
A ryall renk for to be rusticate
Is bot a monster in compansown
Had in despyte / and foule derisiown
I say this be the grete lordis of grewe 15
Quhilk sett thair hert / and all thair» hale curage
Thair fadirs steppis iustly to persewe
Eking the worschip of thair hye lynage
The ancient and sad wyse men of age
War tendouris to the yong and insolent 20
To mak thame in all vertu excellent
Lyke as a strand of water or a spring
Haldis the sapour. of his fontall well
So did in grece ilk lord* and worthy king*
Off forebearis thay tuke carage and smell 2 5
Amang the quhilk of ane I think to tell
Bot first his gentill generatiown
I sail reherse with youre correctiown
Apon the mountane of Elicone
18. ofthair.
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221
P. 151. The nobilnes and grete magnificence
Off prince or lord quha list to magnify
His grete ancester and linyall descense
Suld first extoll and his genology
So that his hert he my11 enclyne thare by 5
The more / to vertu / and to worthynes
Herand reherse his eldirs gentilnes
It is contrair the lawis of nature
A gentill man to be degenerate
Noucht folowing of his progenitoure 10
The worthy reule / and the lordly estate
A ryall renk for to be rusticate
Is bot a monster in compansown
Had in despyte / and foule derisiown
I say this be the grete lordis of grewe 15
Quhilk sett thair hert / and all thair» hale curage
Thair fadirs steppis iustly to persewe
Eking the worschip of thair hye lynage
The ancient and sad wyse men of age
War tendouris to the yong and insolent 20
To mak thame in all vertu excellent
Lyke as a strand of water or a spring
Haldis the sapour. of his fontall well
So did in grece ilk lord* and worthy king*
Off forebearis thay tuke carage and smell 2 5
Amang the quhilk of ane I think to tell
Bot first his gentill generatiown
I sail reherse with youre correctiown
Apon the mountane of Elicone
18. ofthair.
25. tarage. CbM£ct
2. Offprince.
9. tobe.
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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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