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XXXIII.
ANE BALLAT OF THE FEN3EIT FREIR1 OF TUNG-
LAND, HOW HE FELL IN THE MYRE FLEAND
TO TURKILAND.
AS ?ung Awrora, with cristall haile,
In orient schew hir visage paile,
A sweuyng swyth did me assaile,
Off2 sonis of Sathanis seid;
Me thocht a Turk of Tartary 5
Come throw3 the boundis of Barbary,
And lay forloppin in Lumbardy,
Ffull lang in waithman weid.
Ffra baptasing for to eschew,
Thair a religious man he slew, i o
And cled him in his abeit4 new,
Ffor he cowth wryte and reid.
Quhen kend was his dissimvlance,5
And all his cursit govirnance,6
Ffor feir he fled and come in France, 15
With littill of Lumbard leid.
To be a leiche he fenyt him thair,
Quhilk mony a man micht rew evirmair ;
For he left nowthir seik nor sair
Ynslane, or he hyne ^eid. 20
1 A. falss frer. 2 A. with. 3 A. out of.
4 A. habit. 5 A. dissimilans. 6 A. governans.
XXXIII.
ANE BALLAT OF THE FEN3EIT FREIR1 OF TUNG-
LAND, HOW HE FELL IN THE MYRE FLEAND
TO TURKILAND.
AS ?ung Awrora, with cristall haile,
In orient schew hir visage paile,
A sweuyng swyth did me assaile,
Off2 sonis of Sathanis seid;
Me thocht a Turk of Tartary 5
Come throw3 the boundis of Barbary,
And lay forloppin in Lumbardy,
Ffull lang in waithman weid.
Ffra baptasing for to eschew,
Thair a religious man he slew, i o
And cled him in his abeit4 new,
Ffor he cowth wryte and reid.
Quhen kend was his dissimvlance,5
And all his cursit govirnance,6
Ffor feir he fled and come in France, 15
With littill of Lumbard leid.
To be a leiche he fenyt him thair,
Quhilk mony a man micht rew evirmair ;
For he left nowthir seik nor sair
Ynslane, or he hyne ^eid. 20
1 A. falss frer. 2 A. with. 3 A. out of.
4 A. habit. 5 A. dissimilans. 6 A. governans.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (155) |
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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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