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POEMS OF ALEXANDER SCOTT.
The denkest sounest doun, 85
The farest but refrane,
The gayest grittest loun :
I sail not said agane.
90
95
Loe ! ladeis, gif this bie,
Ane gud counsale I geif 30W,
To saive pur hone&ie,
Fra sklander to releif pw; 100
Bot ballattis ma to breif 30W,
I will nocht brek my brane,
Suppois 3e sowld mischeif pw :
I sail not said agane.
The moir degest and grave,
The grydiar to grip it;
The nycest to ressave
Vpoun the nynis will nip it;
The quhytliest will quhipit
And nocht hir hurdeis hane ;
The less the lerger hippit:
I sail not said agane.
Ffinis q. Scott.
POEMS OF ALEXANDER SCOTT.
The denkest sounest doun, 85
The farest but refrane,
The gayest grittest loun :
I sail not said agane.
90
95
Loe ! ladeis, gif this bie,
Ane gud counsale I geif 30W,
To saive pur hone&ie,
Fra sklander to releif pw; 100
Bot ballattis ma to breif 30W,
I will nocht brek my brane,
Suppois 3e sowld mischeif pw :
I sail not said agane.
The moir degest and grave,
The grydiar to grip it;
The nycest to ressave
Vpoun the nynis will nip it;
The quhytliest will quhipit
And nocht hir hurdeis hane ;
The less the lerger hippit:
I sail not said agane.
Ffinis q. Scott.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of Alexander Scott > (50) |
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| Description | Edited by James Cranstoun. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. |
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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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