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CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR PRINTS.
p. 152. The most famouse of all Arabia 30
A godesse duelt excellent of beautee
Gentil of blude callit memoria*
Quhilk iupiter that god to wyf can ta
And carnaly hir knew, quhilk eftir syne
Apon a day bare hym fair doucht«ns nyne. 35
The first in grew was callit Euterpe.
In cure langage gude dilectacioune.
the secund maide namyt melpomene
As hony suete in modulaciown
Tersitor quhilk is gude instructiozm 40
Of ewiry thing the thrid sister I wis
Thus out of grewe in latyne translate is
Caliope that maidyn nteruailus
the ferde sister of all musilk maistresse
And moder to the king sir Orpheus 45
Quhilk throu his wyf was efter king of trace
Cleo the fyft that now is a goddesse
In latyne callit meditatiown
Of ewiry thing that has creaciozm
The sext lady was callit herato 50
Quhilk drawis lyke to lyke in ewiry thing.
The sevynt lady was fair pollymyo
Quhilk coud a thousand sangis suetly syng
thelya syne quhilk can cure saulis bring
To profund wit and grete agilitee. 55
To vnderstand. and haue capacitee
Wranya the ix. and last of all
In cure langage quha coud it wele expounds
37. lang age. 57. Wrany a.
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CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR PRINTS.
p. 152. The most famouse of all Arabia 30
A godesse duelt excellent of beautee
Gentil of blude callit memoria*
Quhilk iupiter that god to wyf can ta
And carnaly hir knew, quhilk eftir syne
Apon a day bare hym fair doucht«ns nyne. 35
The first in grew was callit Euterpe.
In cure langage gude dilectacioune.
the secund maide namyt melpomene
As hony suete in modulaciown
Tersitor quhilk is gude instructiozm 40
Of ewiry thing the thrid sister I wis
Thus out of grewe in latyne translate is
Caliope that maidyn nteruailus
the ferde sister of all musilk maistresse
And moder to the king sir Orpheus 45
Quhilk throu his wyf was efter king of trace
Cleo the fyft that now is a goddesse
In latyne callit meditatiown
Of ewiry thing that has creaciozm
The sext lady was callit herato 50
Quhilk drawis lyke to lyke in ewiry thing.
The sevynt lady was fair pollymyo
Quhilk coud a thousand sangis suetly syng
thelya syne quhilk can cure saulis bring
To profund wit and grete agilitee. 55
To vnderstand. and haue capacitee
Wranya the ix. and last of all
In cure langage quha coud it wele expounds
37. lang age. 57. Wrany a.
{Two blank leaves in originall\
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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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