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[The Poems, Nos. IX.-XLIX., are printed from the Bannatyne MS.]
L.
[OF SIR THOMAS NORRAY.]
NOW lythis of ane gentill Knycht,
Schir Thomas Norray,1 wyse and wicht.2
And full of chivalrie ;
Quhais3 father was ane Grand Keyne,4
His mother was ane Farie Queyne, 5
Gottin be sossery.
Ane fairer knycht nor he was ane,
On ground may nother5 ryd nor gang,
Na beir bucklar nor brand;
Or cum in this court but dreid; 10
He did full mony va^eant deid
In Roiss, and Murray land.
Full many catherein hes he cheist,
And cummered mony Helland gaist,
Amang thai dully glennis :6 15
Off the Glen Quhettane twenti scoir
He drawe as oxin him befoir;
This deid thocht na man kennis.
At feistis and brydallis wpaland,
He wan the gre, and the garland; 20
Danceit non so on7 deiss :
1 R. Norry. 2 M. vyss and vycht. 3 R. Quhois.
4 R. Keine. 5 R. nether. 6 R. glaines. 7 R. in.
[The Poems, Nos. IX.-XLIX., are printed from the Bannatyne MS.]
L.
[OF SIR THOMAS NORRAY.]
NOW lythis of ane gentill Knycht,
Schir Thomas Norray,1 wyse and wicht.2
And full of chivalrie ;
Quhais3 father was ane Grand Keyne,4
His mother was ane Farie Queyne, 5
Gottin be sossery.
Ane fairer knycht nor he was ane,
On ground may nother5 ryd nor gang,
Na beir bucklar nor brand;
Or cum in this court but dreid; 10
He did full mony va^eant deid
In Roiss, and Murray land.
Full many catherein hes he cheist,
And cummered mony Helland gaist,
Amang thai dully glennis :6 15
Off the Glen Quhettane twenti scoir
He drawe as oxin him befoir;
This deid thocht na man kennis.
At feistis and brydallis wpaland,
He wan the gre, and the garland; 20
Danceit non so on7 deiss :
1 R. Norry. 2 M. vyss and vycht. 3 R. Quhois.
4 R. Keine. 5 R. nether. 6 R. glaines. 7 R. in.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (208) |
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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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