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THE KINGIS QUAIR.
30 Bewailing In my chamber thus allone,
• Despeired of all loye and remedye,
For-tirit of my Vaoght, and wo begone,
Unto1 the wyndow gan I walk In hye,
To se the warld and folk that went forby;
As for the tyme, though I of mirthis fude
Myg/rt haue no more, to luke It did me gude.
31 Now was there maid fast by the touris wall
A gardyn faim, and in the cornem set
Ane herben? grene, with wandis long and small
Railit about; and so with treis set
Was all the place, and hawthorn hegis knet,
That lyf was non walking there forby,
That myght within scars<? ony wight aspye.
32 So thik the bewis and the leues grene
Beschadit all the aleyes that there were,
And myddis eu<?ry herbere myght be sene
The scharp[e] grene suete lenepere,
Growing so fair? with branchis here and there,
That, as It semyt to a lyf w/t//out,
The bewis spred the herberr all about;
33 And on the small[e] grene twistis sat
The lytill suete nyghtingale, and song
So loud and clere, the ympnis consecrat
Off lufis vsg now soft, now lowd among,
That all the gardyng and the wallis rong
Ryg/rt of thain? song, and on2 the copill next
Off thair? suete armony, and lo the text:
Cantus.
34 “ Worschippe, }e that louera bene, this may,
For of joar bliss^ the kalendis an? begonne,
And sing with vs, away, winter, away !
1 MS. And to.
2 Perhaps we should read of.