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Dunbar’s
Poems.
I.
THE GOLDYN TARGE.
fLjcre fceggmtga ane Utttl trette mtitulit tlje goltign targe
campilit be i^taister SSEilgam Btmbar.
RYGHT as the stern of day begouth to schyne,
Quhen gone to bed war Vesper and Lucyne,
I raise,1 and by a rosere2 did me rest;
Wp sprang the goldyn candill matutyne,
With clere depurit bemes cristallyne, 5
Glading the mery3 foulis in thair nest;
Or Phebus’ was in purpur cape4 revest
Wp raise5 the lark, the hevyns6 menstrale fyne
In May, in till a morow myrthfullest.
Full angellike thir birdis sang thair houris 10
Within thair courtyns7 grene, in to8 thair bouris,
Apparalit quhite9 and red, wyth blomes10 suete;
Anamalit11 was the felde wyth all colouris,
The perly droppis schake in silvir schouris,
1 B. M. raiss. 2 M. ane river. 3 B. mirry.
B. kaip ; M. capie vest. 5 B. sprang. 6 B. hevinis. 7 B. courtingis.
B. within. 9 B. with quhayte. 10 B. blumys. 11 B. Ennammalit.
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Poems.
I.
THE GOLDYN TARGE.
fLjcre fceggmtga ane Utttl trette mtitulit tlje goltign targe
campilit be i^taister SSEilgam Btmbar.
RYGHT as the stern of day begouth to schyne,
Quhen gone to bed war Vesper and Lucyne,
I raise,1 and by a rosere2 did me rest;
Wp sprang the goldyn candill matutyne,
With clere depurit bemes cristallyne, 5
Glading the mery3 foulis in thair nest;
Or Phebus’ was in purpur cape4 revest
Wp raise5 the lark, the hevyns6 menstrale fyne
In May, in till a morow myrthfullest.
Full angellike thir birdis sang thair houris 10
Within thair courtyns7 grene, in to8 thair bouris,
Apparalit quhite9 and red, wyth blomes10 suete;
Anamalit11 was the felde wyth all colouris,
The perly droppis schake in silvir schouris,
1 B. M. raiss. 2 M. ane river. 3 B. mirry.
B. kaip ; M. capie vest. 5 B. sprang. 6 B. hevinis. 7 B. courtingis.
B. within. 9 B. with quhayte. 10 B. blumys. 11 B. Ennammalit.
A
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (17) |
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| Description | Edited by John Small. Introduction by AE.J.G. Mackay. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893. 3 volumes. Contents: I. Introduction by Æ. J.G. Mackay [including memoir] Appendix: References to Dunbar in the records. Table of Dunbar's poems according to probable dates. Note on the versification and metres of Dunbar, by G.P. M'Neill. Bibliography of Dunbar. Historical notices of persons alluded to in Dunbar's poems.--II. Poems, with prefatory note. Poems attributed to Dunbar.--III. Notes and glossary by Walter Gregor, and an appendix on the intercourse between Scotland and Denmark, by Æ. J.G. Mackay. |
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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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| Description | Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts. |
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