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samyw mycht be best dressitt. At last it was devissit ]?at pe
nobillis suld be licent alanerlye quhen solempne dayis occwrritt
to haif bakin mete and sik deligaittis, howbeit sik kynde of
meittis war nocht vsit afoir in ]?is realme. Finalie, becaus
pe nobillis war licentt in pis maner to pair banketting, pe
intemperance perot is dayly rissin to pe huge voracite pat is
now present in oure dayis, na foule in pe air, na fysche in pe
seye ar sufficient to satify pe hungry appetite of gluttonis,
quhill pe wame be blawin wit/z sa grette fowth be continewall
(II. 505) fairsing pat pe personis vsing pe samyn may nocht draw pair
haynde. And perfor I beleiff pe grete dawmage cumin to ws
baith in tyme of were & pece procedis mekle be pis gluttony
& druwkynnes. |
580 How King lames pe First brocht sindry craftismen
in Scotlannd; how Paule Craw, here tike, was
bryntt ; how pe Charteris of Perth was fonditt.
Ca vj
Sik thingis done, King lames brocht oute of Ingland and
Flanderis ingenious men of sindry craftis to instruct his
pepill in vertewis occupacioun, becaus Scotland was con-
tinewallie exercitt in weeris fra pe dede of Alexander the
Thrid to pai dayis, and all pe craftismen and vtheris war
constrenit to pas to pe weeris, and pe maist part of pame
distroyitt be pe samyn, throw quhilk pe pepill was mair
gevin to excercicioun of weeris pan ony civill accionis. For
all pe ingenious and craftismen war slayne within pe space
of jc 3eris, quhilk is bot pe aige of ane man, throw quhilk pe
craft and ingenious operacioun couth nocht be restoritt be
pame quhilkis war left on live, for euery operacionis wrocht
be pe hand of man ar mair fragill pan sik thingis quhilkis be
wrocht be \ettrez.
Schort tyme eftir pis counsale was takin be Bischop Hary
in pe Vniuersite of Sanctandrots, ane man of Boheme, namittt