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Pro ^oulis.
156
XXXVIII.
[DONE IS A BATTELL ON THE DRAGON
BEAK.]
DONE is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The 3ettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe trivmphall rasit is of the croce,
The diuillis trymmillis with hiddouss voce, 5
The saulis ar borrowit and to the bliss can go,
Chryst with his blud our ransonis dois indoce :
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchre.
Dungin is the deidly dragon Lucifer,
The crewall serpent with the mortall stang; 1 o
The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char,
Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for ws so lang,
Thinking to grip ws in his clowss Strang;
The mercifull Lord wald nocht that it wer so,
He maid him for to fekje of that fang : 15
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.
He for our saik that sufferit to be slane,
And lyk a lamb in sacrifice wes dicht,
Is lyk a lyone rissin vp agane,
And as gyane raxit him on hicht; 20
Sprungin is Aurora radius and bricht,
On loft is gone the glorius Appollo,
The blisfull day departit fro the nycht:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.
156
XXXVIII.
[DONE IS A BATTELL ON THE DRAGON
BEAK.]
DONE is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The 3ettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe trivmphall rasit is of the croce,
The diuillis trymmillis with hiddouss voce, 5
The saulis ar borrowit and to the bliss can go,
Chryst with his blud our ransonis dois indoce :
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchre.
Dungin is the deidly dragon Lucifer,
The crewall serpent with the mortall stang; 1 o
The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char,
Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for ws so lang,
Thinking to grip ws in his clowss Strang;
The mercifull Lord wald nocht that it wer so,
He maid him for to fekje of that fang : 15
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.
He for our saik that sufferit to be slane,
And lyk a lamb in sacrifice wes dicht,
Is lyk a lyone rissin vp agane,
And as gyane raxit him on hicht; 20
Sprungin is Aurora radius and bricht,
On loft is gone the glorius Appollo,
The blisfull day departit fro the nycht:
Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (172) |
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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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