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THE SECUND BUIK.
57
1 So scelerait, and ingrait for to chois :
So wickit like, and als so venemois :
So troubillois full of Intemperance,
To thame ane word that I dar not disclois.
Quhat sail I do, and I pas hame againe, 300
All my trauell by past it is in vaine.
And byde I heir, I traist na thing bot deid,
Best is to say, I am ane Chirurgiane:
In Medicine ane greit practiciane.
Perauenture sa sail I eschaip feid. 305
Quhat thaw, gif thay of my craft with me pleid ?
They will me call ane cassin Courticiane :
Ane fen^eit Fox: and than of will my heid.
Best is to say, that I couet seruice
With siclike men, that vaih$eant ar and wise. 310
Thus in a part my self dissimulat.
Bot I dreid sair all this that I deuise
I sail me tume perchance to preiudice
In all my dayis was I not half sa mayt.
3it sail I se gif I be Fortunait. 315
With all my pith my hart I sail apprise :
I knaw the werst of all this haill debait.
And sa anone he enterit in the Mans,
[Qujhair that thir nyne into thair geir did glans
[Tr]aisting to haue of thame aide and supple 320
[Joyjous in hart and blyith be apperance :
[Presum]ing far in his awin arrogance :
[He leukit on] all with fen^eit audacitie,
[Als he stood] befoir that 2 cho is of Cheualrie :
3 The small missiue withouttin circumstance, 325
Deliuerit thame, law kneiling on his kne.
1 Lf. 23.
2 Read chois.
3 Lf. 23, back.
57
1 So scelerait, and ingrait for to chois :
So wickit like, and als so venemois :
So troubillois full of Intemperance,
To thame ane word that I dar not disclois.
Quhat sail I do, and I pas hame againe, 300
All my trauell by past it is in vaine.
And byde I heir, I traist na thing bot deid,
Best is to say, I am ane Chirurgiane:
In Medicine ane greit practiciane.
Perauenture sa sail I eschaip feid. 305
Quhat thaw, gif thay of my craft with me pleid ?
They will me call ane cassin Courticiane :
Ane fen^eit Fox: and than of will my heid.
Best is to say, that I couet seruice
With siclike men, that vaih$eant ar and wise. 310
Thus in a part my self dissimulat.
Bot I dreid sair all this that I deuise
I sail me tume perchance to preiudice
In all my dayis was I not half sa mayt.
3it sail I se gif I be Fortunait. 315
With all my pith my hart I sail apprise :
I knaw the werst of all this haill debait.
And sa anone he enterit in the Mans,
[Qujhair that thir nyne into thair geir did glans
[Tr]aisting to haue of thame aide and supple 320
[Joyjous in hart and blyith be apperance :
[Presum]ing far in his awin arrogance :
[He leukit on] all with fen^eit audacitie,
[Als he stood] befoir that 2 cho is of Cheualrie :
3 The small missiue withouttin circumstance, 325
Deliuerit thame, law kneiling on his kne.
1 Lf. 23.
2 Read chois.
3 Lf. 23, back.
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| Description | Deuidit into four buikis. Newlie compylit be Iohne Rolland in Dalkeith, 1575. Edited by the Rev. Walter Gregor, M.A.. Edinburgh: Published for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. |
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