Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of Robert Henryson > Volume 1, 1914

THE KINASTON MANUSCRIPT.
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Per vitra eius radij penetrabant,
Vt vndequaq^e petui me videre
Arctoi venti aerem serenaba«t
Nubeculas & coelo abigere :
Rigebat gelu, flatus qui seuere
Strepentes polo Arctico venerunt
Nolentem me recedere coegerunt.
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For I trusted that Venus, loues queene,
To whome sometime I bight obedience,
My faded hart of loue she would make greene;
And thereuppon with humble reuerence,
I thought to pray her high magnificence;
But for great cold as then I letted was,
And in my chamber to the fire gan paas.
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Sperabam enim Venus quod regina,
Cui solebam obs[e]quium praestare,
Cor meum senij marcidum pruina
Virere faceret rursum & amare;
Ergo eius numen statui inuocare,
Sed impeditus frigus ob intensum
Recepi memet ignem ad accensum.
p. 478. 5.
Though loue be hot, yet in a man of age
It kindleth not so soone as in youth heed,
Of whome the bloud is flowing in a rage,
And in the old the courage dull & deede,
Of W/fo'ch the fire outward is best remeed:
To helpe by phisicke where that nature failed,
I am expert—for both I haue assailed.