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XXXII.
THE WOWING OF THE KING QUHEN HE
WES IN DUMFERMELING.
THIS hindir nycht in Dumfermeling,
To me wes tawld ane windir1 thing ;
That lait ane tod wes with ane lame,
And with hir playit, and maid gude 2 game,
Syne till his breist did hir imbrace, 5
And wald haif riddin hir lyk ane rame :
And that me thocht ane ferly cace.
He braisit hir bony body sweit,
And halsit hir with [his]3 fordir feit;
Syne schuk his taill, with quhinge and jelp, 10
And todlit4 with hir lyk ane quhelp;
Syne lowrit on growfe and askit grace;
And ay the lame cryd, Lady, help !
And that me thocht ane ferly cace.
The tod wes nowder lene nor skowry, 15
He 5 wes ane lusty reid haird6 lowry,
Ane lang taild beist and grit with all;
The silly lame wes all to small
1 M. wondrous. 2 M. grit. 8 from M. MS.
4 M. todillit. 5 M. Bot. s M. rid-harit.
XXXII.
THE WOWING OF THE KING QUHEN HE
WES IN DUMFERMELING.
THIS hindir nycht in Dumfermeling,
To me wes tawld ane windir1 thing ;
That lait ane tod wes with ane lame,
And with hir playit, and maid gude 2 game,
Syne till his breist did hir imbrace, 5
And wald haif riddin hir lyk ane rame :
And that me thocht ane ferly cace.
He braisit hir bony body sweit,
And halsit hir with [his]3 fordir feit;
Syne schuk his taill, with quhinge and jelp, 10
And todlit4 with hir lyk ane quhelp;
Syne lowrit on growfe and askit grace;
And ay the lame cryd, Lady, help !
And that me thocht ane ferly cace.
The tod wes nowder lene nor skowry, 15
He 5 wes ane lusty reid haird6 lowry,
Ane lang taild beist and grit with all;
The silly lame wes all to small
1 M. wondrous. 2 M. grit. 8 from M. MS.
4 M. todillit. 5 M. Bot. s M. rid-harit.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (152) |
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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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