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LXVIII.
[OF THE CHANGES OF LYFR]
ISEIK abowte this warld onstable,
To find a1 sentence conveniable;
Bot I can not in all my witt,
Sa trew a1 sentence find of it,
As say, it is dissavable. 5
For ^isterday, I did declair
How that the sasoun2 soft and fair,
Come in als fresche as pacok feddir j3
This day it stangis lyke ane eddir,
Concluding all in my contrair. 10
Tsterday fair sprang4 the flowris,
This day thai ar all slane with schouris ;
And foulis in forrest that sang cleir,
Now walkis5 with ane drerie cheir,6
Full cauld ar bayth thair beddis and bouris. 15
So nixt to symmer, wynter bene ;
Nixt eftir confort, cairis keine;
Nixt eftir myd7 nycht, the2 myrthfull morrow;
Nixt eftir joy, ay cwmis sorrow :
So is this warld, and ay hes bene. 20
Quod Dumbar.
1 R. ane. 2 R. omits. 3 R. Bot now so changit is the wedder.
4 R. wpsprang. 5 R. weipis. 6 R. scheir. 7 R. dark.
LXVIII.
[OF THE CHANGES OF LYFR]
ISEIK abowte this warld onstable,
To find a1 sentence conveniable;
Bot I can not in all my witt,
Sa trew a1 sentence find of it,
As say, it is dissavable. 5
For ^isterday, I did declair
How that the sasoun2 soft and fair,
Come in als fresche as pacok feddir j3
This day it stangis lyke ane eddir,
Concluding all in my contrair. 10
Tsterday fair sprang4 the flowris,
This day thai ar all slane with schouris ;
And foulis in forrest that sang cleir,
Now walkis5 with ane drerie cheir,6
Full cauld ar bayth thair beddis and bouris. 15
So nixt to symmer, wynter bene ;
Nixt eftir confort, cairis keine;
Nixt eftir myd7 nycht, the2 myrthfull morrow;
Nixt eftir joy, ay cwmis sorrow :
So is this warld, and ay hes bene. 20
Quod Dumbar.
1 R. ane. 2 R. omits. 3 R. Bot now so changit is the wedder.
4 R. wpsprang. 5 R. weipis. 6 R. scheir. 7 R. dark.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of William Dunbar > Volume 2, 1893 > (248) |
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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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