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Gif thow hes mycht, be gentill and fre;
And gif thow standis in powertie,
Off thine1 awin will to it consent;
And riches sail returne2 to the:
He hes anewch that is content. 25
And je and I, my bredir3 all,
That in4 this lyfe hes lordschip5 small,
Lat languour not6 in ws imprent;7
Gif we not clym we tak no fall:
He hes anewch that is content. 30
For quho in warld moist covatus8 is
In world is purast man, I-wis,
And moist neidy of9 his intent;
For of all gudis no thing [is his,]10
That of no thing can be content. 35
Quod Dumbar.
1 R. thy. 2 R. And it sail riches turne. 3 R. brothar.
4 R. Within. 5 R. lordeschippis. 6 R. nane. 7 R. be lent.
8 R. that leist contentit. 9 R. And neidfullest in. 10 M. he hes.
231
Gif thow hes mycht, be gentill and fre;
And gif thow standis in powertie,
Off thine1 awin will to it consent;
And riches sail returne2 to the:
He hes anewch that is content. 25
And je and I, my bredir3 all,
That in4 this lyfe hes lordschip5 small,
Lat languour not6 in ws imprent;7
Gif we not clym we tak no fall:
He hes anewch that is content. 30
For quho in warld moist covatus8 is
In world is purast man, I-wis,
And moist neidy of9 his intent;
For of all gudis no thing [is his,]10
That of no thing can be content. 35
Quod Dumbar.
1 R. thy. 2 R. And it sail riches turne. 3 R. brothar.
4 R. Within. 5 R. lordeschippis. 6 R. nane. 7 R. be lent.
8 R. that leist contentit. 9 R. And neidfullest in. 10 M. he hes.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (247) |
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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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