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AND TREW LUVE RYSIS FRO THE SPLENE.
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To all the warld that it war sene:
Now cumis aige quhair ^ewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Befoir no wicht I did complene, 55
So did hir denger me derene;
And now I sett nocht by a bene
Hir bewty nor hir twa fair ene :
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene. 60
I haif a luve farar of face,
Quhome in no denger may haif place,
Quhilk will me guerdoun gif and grace,
And mercy ay quhen I me mene:
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene, 65
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Vnquyt I do no thing nor sane,
Nor wairis a luvis thocht in vane;
I salbe als weill luvit agane,
Thair may no j angler me prevene : 70
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew luve rysis fro the splene.
Ane lufe so fare, so gud, so sueit,
So riche, so rewthfull and discreit,
And for the kynd of man so meit, 75
Nevir moir salbe nor ^it hes bene :
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Is none sa trew a luve as he,
That for trew luve of ws did de; 80
He suld be luffit agane, think me,
181
To all the warld that it war sene:
Now cumis aige quhair ^ewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Befoir no wicht I did complene, 55
So did hir denger me derene;
And now I sett nocht by a bene
Hir bewty nor hir twa fair ene :
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene. 60
I haif a luve farar of face,
Quhome in no denger may haif place,
Quhilk will me guerdoun gif and grace,
And mercy ay quhen I me mene:
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene, 65
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Vnquyt I do no thing nor sane,
Nor wairis a luvis thocht in vane;
I salbe als weill luvit agane,
Thair may no j angler me prevene : 70
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew luve rysis fro the splene.
Ane lufe so fare, so gud, so sueit,
So riche, so rewthfull and discreit,
And for the kynd of man so meit, 75
Nevir moir salbe nor ^it hes bene :
Now cumis aige quhair jewth hes bene,
And trew lufe rysis fro the splene.
Is none sa trew a luve as he,
That for trew luve of ws did de; 80
He suld be luffit agane, think me,
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (197) |
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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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