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ROBYN MODE.
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P. 201. Gramarcy sir sayde he
Suche a dinere had I nat:
Of alle these wekys thre
If I come ageyne Robyn
Here by thys centre
As gode a dyner I shalle the make
As that thou haest made to me
Gramarcy knyght sayde Robyn*
My dyner whan that I it haue*
I was neuer so gredy bi dere worthy god
My dyner for to craue
But pay or ye vtende sayde Robyn
Me thynketh it is gode ryght*
It was neuer ye maner by dere worthi god
A yoman to pay for a kny^ht*
I haue nought in my coffers saide ye knyght
That I may prefer for shame*
Late John go loke sayde Robyn
Ne let nat for no blame
Tel me truth than saide Robyn
So god /ial parte of me*
I haue no more but *xx shelynges sayde ye knyght.
So gode haue parte of me
If thou hast no more sayde robyn*
I wolle nat one peny*
And yf thou haue nede of any more. ♦ ♦
More shalk I lend the i
Go nowe furth littelle lohn
The truth telle thou me ;
If there be no more but xx* selinges*
No peny that I se*
Lyttelle lohn sprede downe hys mantelle
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1918 - Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray mss
DescriptionTogether 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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