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BANNATYNE MS.
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This riche rywer doun ran but resting or rove
Throw a fforest on fauld J>at ferlye was ffair 15
All the brayis off that bryme buir brenchis above
And birdis blyithest off ble on blossomes bair
The land loun was and lie / w* lyking and love
And for to leude 1 by that lak tho* me levare
Becauft that pir hertis in herdis coud hove 20
Pransand and pru^eand be pair and be pare
Thus sat I in solace sekirlye / and suire
Content of pe fair firth ]
Mekle mair of the mirth > pat pe ground buire
Als was blyith off the birth J 25
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The birth pat pe ground bure was broudyn on bredis
With gerft gay as the gold / and granis off grace
Mendis and medicine ffor all memiis Neidis 2 Leydfs
Help till hert / and till hurt // helefull it was 30
Vnder pe circle solar thir sauourouB sedis
Were nurist be dame nature that nobill maistres
Bot all pair namys to nyvin as now it nocht nedis
It wer prolixit and lang and lenthing of space fol. 302 b
And I haif mekle mater in metir to gloft 35
of ane vpir sentence ]
And waik is my eloquence >
Thairfoir in haist will I hence J
To pe purpoft
Off pat purpoift in pat place be pryme of pe day 40
I hard a peteous appeill w‘ a pure mane
Sowlpit in sorrow pat sadly could say
Wois me wreche in pis warld wilsum of wane
W* moir mumyng in mynd than I mene may
Rowpit rewthfully roch in a roulk 3 rud rane 45
1 leude, or lende, with y interlined above the u or n.
2 Originally meidis. 3 roulk interlined.
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