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BANNATYNE MS.
Than / sprowtok / spak / seift sister of 30r sorrow
ge be to made for him sic mrnmg maift
We sail fair weill I find sanct lohne to borrow 115
The proverd 1 sayis as guid luif cumis as gaift
I will put on my hellye dayis clais
And mak me fresch aganis pis lolye may
Syne chant pis sang / was nevir wedow so gay
He was angrye / and held ws in grete aw 120
And woundit w* pe speir of lelosye
Off chaumer glew partlot how weill 36 knaw
Waistit he was of nature cald and drye
Sen he is gone pairiore sister say I
Be blyith in bale for pat is best remeid 125
Lat quik to quik ; and deid go to pe deid
Thus sprowtok pat feyn3eit fay4 befoir
in luste but luif pat sett all hir delyte
Syster 3e watte of sic as him a scoir
May it nocht siffise to slak 3or appetyte 130
I hecht 30W be my hand sen 36 ar quyte
Within a wolk for schame and I durst speik
To gett a berne could better claw 3or beke 1
Page 673 Than coppok lyke a curate spak full crouft fol. 312 a
gone was ane verrye weangeawce fra pe hevin 135
He was sa loweouft and so licheroufi
SeiB coud he nocht with sissokkis | mo thaw sevin
Bot rychtuous god haldand pe ballaweis 1 evin
Smytis full soir thocfyt he be patient
Adulteraris pat list pame nocht repent 140
Prydefull he was and loyit of his syn
And comptit nowper of goddis falvor nor feid
Bot traistit ay to rax and sa furth rin
1 Sic.
BANNATYNE MS.
Than / sprowtok / spak / seift sister of 30r sorrow
ge be to made for him sic mrnmg maift
We sail fair weill I find sanct lohne to borrow 115
The proverd 1 sayis as guid luif cumis as gaift
I will put on my hellye dayis clais
And mak me fresch aganis pis lolye may
Syne chant pis sang / was nevir wedow so gay
He was angrye / and held ws in grete aw 120
And woundit w* pe speir of lelosye
Off chaumer glew partlot how weill 36 knaw
Waistit he was of nature cald and drye
Sen he is gone pairiore sister say I
Be blyith in bale for pat is best remeid 125
Lat quik to quik ; and deid go to pe deid
Thus sprowtok pat feyn3eit fay4 befoir
in luste but luif pat sett all hir delyte
Syster 3e watte of sic as him a scoir
May it nocht siffise to slak 3or appetyte 130
I hecht 30W be my hand sen 36 ar quyte
Within a wolk for schame and I durst speik
To gett a berne could better claw 3or beke 1
Page 673 Than coppok lyke a curate spak full crouft fol. 312 a
gone was ane verrye weangeawce fra pe hevin 135
He was sa loweouft and so licheroufi
SeiB coud he nocht with sissokkis | mo thaw sevin
Bot rychtuous god haldand pe ballaweis 1 evin
Smytis full soir thocfyt he be patient
Adulteraris pat list pame nocht repent 140
Prydefull he was and loyit of his syn
And comptit nowper of goddis falvor nor feid
Bot traistit ay to rax and sa furth rin
1 Sic.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 4, 1930 > (188) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107595880 |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.26 |
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| Description | Written in tyme of pest, 1568, by George Bannatyne. Edited and introduced by W. Tod Ritchie. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons Ltd., 1928-34. 4 volumes. This is New Series 22-23, 26 only. Volumes 2-4 contain the text of the manuscript. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.22-23, 26 |
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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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