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OF SIR THOMAS NORRAY.
193
He hes att warslingis beine ane bunder,
3ett lay his body nevir at wnder :
He knawis gif this be leiss.1
Was never vyld2 Robeine wnder bewch,
Nor jet Roger of Clekkinsklewch,3
So bauld a bairne as he;
Gy of Gysburne, na Allan Bell,
Na Simones sonnes of Quhynfell,
At schot4 war nevir so she.
This anterouss knycht, quhaire ever he vent,
At justinge, and5 at tornament,
Evir moir he wan the gre;
Was never of halff so gryt6 renoun
Schir Bevis7 the knycht of South Hamptoun :
I shrew him gif I lie.
Thairfoir Quhentyne was bot ane lurdane,
That callit him ane full plum Jurdane,
This wyse and worthie knycht;
He callit him foullar than ane fuill,
He said he was ane licheruss bull,
That croynd bayth day and nycht.
He wald have maid him8 Curris knaiff;9
I pray God better his honour saiff,
Na to be lichtleit sua !
3ett this far8 furth I dar him prais,
He fyld never sadell in his dais;
And Curry befyld tua.
1 R. lies. 2 R. weild. 3 R. Clekkinslewch.
4 R. Off thocht. 5 R. nor. 6 R. great.
7 R. Bewis. 8 R. omits. 9 M. kneff.
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193
He hes att warslingis beine ane bunder,
3ett lay his body nevir at wnder :
He knawis gif this be leiss.1
Was never vyld2 Robeine wnder bewch,
Nor jet Roger of Clekkinsklewch,3
So bauld a bairne as he;
Gy of Gysburne, na Allan Bell,
Na Simones sonnes of Quhynfell,
At schot4 war nevir so she.
This anterouss knycht, quhaire ever he vent,
At justinge, and5 at tornament,
Evir moir he wan the gre;
Was never of halff so gryt6 renoun
Schir Bevis7 the knycht of South Hamptoun :
I shrew him gif I lie.
Thairfoir Quhentyne was bot ane lurdane,
That callit him ane full plum Jurdane,
This wyse and worthie knycht;
He callit him foullar than ane fuill,
He said he was ane licheruss bull,
That croynd bayth day and nycht.
He wald have maid him8 Curris knaiff;9
I pray God better his honour saiff,
Na to be lichtleit sua !
3ett this far8 furth I dar him prais,
He fyld never sadell in his dais;
And Curry befyld tua.
1 R. lies. 2 R. weild. 3 R. Clekkinslewch.
4 R. Off thocht. 5 R. nor. 6 R. great.
7 R. Bewis. 8 R. omits. 9 M. kneff.
N
25
30
35
40
45
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (209) |
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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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