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THE KINGIS QUAIR.
152 Quhare, In a lusty plane, tuke I my way,
Endlang a ryufT, plesant to behold,
Enbroudin all wz't/j fresche floum gay,
Quhare, throu the grauel, bxyght as ony gold,
The cristall water ran so clere and cold,
That, In my« ere maid contynualy
A man<?r soun, mellit with armony ;
153 That full of lytill fischis by the brym,
Now here, now there, with bakkA blewe as lede,
Lap and playit, and In a rout can swym
So prattily, and dressit tham to sprede
Thain? curall fy/mis, as the ruby rede,
That In the sonne on thain? scabs bxyght
As gesserant ay glittmt In my sight:
154 And by this like ryu^r-syde alawe
Ane hye way [thar] fand I like to bene,
On quhich, on Query syde, a long[e] rawe
Off treis saw I, full of leuis grene,
That full of fruyte delitable were to sene,
And also, as It come vnto my mind,
Off bestis sawe I mony diu^rs^ kynd :
155 The lyouzz king, and his fere lyonesse;
The pantere, like vnto the smaragdyne ;
The lytill squerell, full of besynessz?;
The slawe as<?, the druggan? beste of pyne;
The nyce ape; the werdy porpapyne ;
The p<?rcyng lynx; the lufan? vnicorne,
That voidis venym with his euour home.
156 There sawe I dressy him new out of [his] hau/zt
The fery tigem, full of felonye ;
The dromydam; the standar oliphant;