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BELLENDEN S BOECE
Makand prelatis mair sleuthfull pan fervent
In ithand prayer and deuocione.
Schaw how pis realme for pair promocione
Na maner of gold or siluer may posseid,
And pairfore sail nocht faill euersione,
Without pe counsale fynd in tyme remeid.
Schaw how 3oung knycMtis suld be men of were.
With hardy spreit at euery ieoparde,
Like as pair eldaris bene sa mony 3ere,
Ay to defend pair realme and liberte,
That pai nocht be pair sleuth and cowardrye
The fame and honour of pair eldaris tyne.
Apprise ilk state into pair awyne degre,
Ay as pai leif in morall disciplyne.
Schaw furtht ilk king, quhill pow cum to pe Prence
That ryngis now in gret felicite,
Ouhais ancyant blude be hie preeminence
Decorit is in maist excellent gre,
Without compare of hie nobilite,
With giftis mo of nature to him gevin,
Gif nane abusit in his 3euthede be,
Than euir was gevin to nobill wnder hevin. |
pocht pow paft furtht as bird implume to licht,
His gracious eiris to my werk implore,
Quhair he may se, as in ane mirrour bricht,
Sa notabill storeis baith of wice and glore,
Quhilk nevir was sene into his toung afore ;
Quhairthrow he may be prudent govemyng
Als wele his honoure as his realme decore.
And be ane wertuous and ane nobill king.
And sen His Hienes daily dois increfi
In hie honoure of state imperiall,
Pray him amang his princelie besynes
Thy Translatour vnto his favour call,
Makand prelatis mair sleuthfull pan fervent
In ithand prayer and deuocione.
Schaw how pis realme for pair promocione
Na maner of gold or siluer may posseid,
And pairfore sail nocht faill euersione,
Without pe counsale fynd in tyme remeid.
Schaw how 3oung knycMtis suld be men of were.
With hardy spreit at euery ieoparde,
Like as pair eldaris bene sa mony 3ere,
Ay to defend pair realme and liberte,
That pai nocht be pair sleuth and cowardrye
The fame and honour of pair eldaris tyne.
Apprise ilk state into pair awyne degre,
Ay as pai leif in morall disciplyne.
Schaw furtht ilk king, quhill pow cum to pe Prence
That ryngis now in gret felicite,
Ouhais ancyant blude be hie preeminence
Decorit is in maist excellent gre,
Without compare of hie nobilite,
With giftis mo of nature to him gevin,
Gif nane abusit in his 3euthede be,
Than euir was gevin to nobill wnder hevin. |
pocht pow paft furtht as bird implume to licht,
His gracious eiris to my werk implore,
Quhair he may se, as in ane mirrour bricht,
Sa notabill storeis baith of wice and glore,
Quhilk nevir was sene into his toung afore ;
Quhairthrow he may be prudent govemyng
Als wele his honoure as his realme decore.
And be ane wertuous and ane nobill king.
And sen His Hienes daily dois increfi
In hie honoure of state imperiall,
Pray him amang his princelie besynes
Thy Translatour vnto his favour call,
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Chronicles of Scotland > Volume 2, 1941 > (422) |
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| Description | Compiled by Hector Boece ; translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 1531 ; edited, in continuation of the work of the late Walter Seton, by R.W. Chambers and Edith C. Batho. Volume 2 edited by Edith C. Batho and H. Winifred Husbands. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1938-1941. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES3.10, 15 |
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