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CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR PRINTS.
P. 200. My bretherne alle in fere
My purpos was to haue dyned to day
At blith or Dancastere
Forth than went this gentyl knight
With a carefulle chere*
The teris oute of his iyen ran*
And felle downe by his lere
They brought hym to the lodge dore
Whan Robyn hym gan see*
Full curtesly dyd of his hode
And sette hym on his knee
Welcome sir knight than sayde Robyn.
Welcome art thou to me*
I haue abyden you fastinge sir
All these ouris thre
Than answered the gentylle knight
With wordes fayre and fre*
God the saue goode Robyn
And all thy fayre meyne
They wasshed togeder and wyped bothe.
And sette to theyr dy^ere
Brede and wyne they had right ynought*
And noumbles of the dere
Swannes & fe^sauntes they had full gode*
And foules of the ryuere
There fayled none so litelk a birde*
That euer was bred on bryre
Do gladly sir knight sayde Robyn
[Blank of four lines here—there is no gap in the sense]
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100. to geder.
101. dyuere.
104. felsauntes.
106. abirde.
CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR PRINTS.
P. 200. My bretherne alle in fere
My purpos was to haue dyned to day
At blith or Dancastere
Forth than went this gentyl knight
With a carefulle chere*
The teris oute of his iyen ran*
And felle downe by his lere
They brought hym to the lodge dore
Whan Robyn hym gan see*
Full curtesly dyd of his hode
And sette hym on his knee
Welcome sir knight than sayde Robyn.
Welcome art thou to me*
I haue abyden you fastinge sir
All these ouris thre
Than answered the gentylle knight
With wordes fayre and fre*
God the saue goode Robyn
And all thy fayre meyne
They wasshed togeder and wyped bothe.
And sette to theyr dy^ere
Brede and wyne they had right ynought*
And noumbles of the dere
Swannes & fe^sauntes they had full gode*
And foules of the ryuere
There fayled none so litelk a birde*
That euer was bred on bryre
Do gladly sir knight sayde Robyn
[Blank of four lines here—there is no gap in the sense]
85
9°
95
100
io5
100. to geder.
101. dyuere.
104. felsauntes.
106. abirde.
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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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