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XLI.
[BE 3E ANE LUVAR, THINK 3E NOCHT
3E SUED.]
BE je ane luvar, think je nocht suld
Be weill adwysit in jour gouerning ?
Be }e nocht sa, it will on 30W be tauld;
Bewar thairwith for dreid of misdemyng.
Be nocht a wreche, nor skerche in jour spending, 5
Be layth alway to do amiss or schame;
Be rewlit rycht and keip this doctring,
Be secreit, trew, incressing of jour name.
Be je ane lear, that is werst of all,
Be je ane tratlar, that I hald als ewill; 1 o
Be je ane janglar, and je fra vertew fall,
Be nevir mair on to thir vicis thrall;
Be now and ay the maistir of jour will,
Be nevir he that lesing sail proclame;
Be nocht of langage quhair je suld be still, 15
Be secreit, trew, incressing of jour name.
Be nocht abasit for no wicket tung,
Be nocht sa set as I haif said jow heir;
Be nocht sa lerge vnto thir sawis sung,
Be nocht our prowd, thinkand je haif no peir;
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[BE 3E ANE LUVAR, THINK 3E NOCHT
3E SUED.]
BE je ane luvar, think je nocht suld
Be weill adwysit in jour gouerning ?
Be }e nocht sa, it will on 30W be tauld;
Bewar thairwith for dreid of misdemyng.
Be nocht a wreche, nor skerche in jour spending, 5
Be layth alway to do amiss or schame;
Be rewlit rycht and keip this doctring,
Be secreit, trew, incressing of jour name.
Be je ane lear, that is werst of all,
Be je ane tratlar, that I hald als ewill; 1 o
Be je ane janglar, and je fra vertew fall,
Be nevir mair on to thir vicis thrall;
Be now and ay the maistir of jour will,
Be nevir he that lesing sail proclame;
Be nocht of langage quhair je suld be still, 15
Be secreit, trew, incressing of jour name.
Be nocht abasit for no wicket tung,
Be nocht sa set as I haif said jow heir;
Be nocht sa lerge vnto thir sawis sung,
Be nocht our prowd, thinkand je haif no peir;
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (178) |
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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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