Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, 1490-1555 > Volume 4, 1936

APPENDIX VI.
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Adame puft vp in warldly gloir,
Ambitioun, and of pryd,
Eit of the fruct; allace thairfoir ;
And swa thay baith did slyd
Neglecting, forgetting
The eternall goddis command,
Quha scurgit, and purgit,
Thame quyt owt of that land.
[Fol. 13a.] Quhen thay had eitin of that frute.
Off ioy than war thay destitute.
And saw thair bodyis bair.
Annone thay past with all thair speid,
OS leivis to mak thame selvis a weid,
To claith thame was thair cair.
During the tyme of innocence
No syn nor schame thay knew ;
Fra tyme thay gat experience,
Vnto ane buss thay drew ;
Abyding, and hyding.
As God sowld nocht thame see ;
Quha spyit, and cryit,
“ Adame, quhy hyddis thow thee ?
“ I being naikit, Lord, throw feir,
For schame I durst nocht to compeir.
And so I did refuse.”
" Had thow nocht eitin of that tre.
That knawlege had nocht been in the.
Nor pt no sic excuse.”
" This helper. Lord, thow gaif to me,
Hes cawsit me transgress.”
Sayd scho, " The serpent subtilly
Perswadit me no less :
Intreitting, be eitting.
That we sowld be periyte.
Me sylit, begylit;
In him lyis all the wyte.”
The Lord, that evir iugeit richt,
Bringand his iustice to the licht.
The serpent first did iuge.
" Becauss the woman thow begylit,
For evir thow sail be exylit,”
Said he, “ witAowt refiuge.
Betuix hir seid and thy ofspring
Na peax nor rest salbe ;
And hir seid sail thy held doun thring
For all thy subtilty ;
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