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BANNATYNE MS.
163
Till at pe last his synnis could him leid
To schamefull end and to ^one suddane deid 145
Thairfore I wait it was pe hand of god
That causit him be wirreit with pe tod
Quhew bis was said / pe wedow fra hir swoun
Stert vp in haist / and on hir kewnattis cryid
How birkye / burrye / bell / balsye / broun 150
Rypeschaw / ryn weill / courteft / cutt / and clyid /
Togidder all but gruwcheing furth 3e glyid
Reskew my nobill cok or he be slane
Or ellis to me / se 3c cum nevir agane
With pat but bade 1 breddit our pe bent 155
As fyre of flynt pat our pe feildis flaw
Wichtlye I wift throw woddis and watteris we«t
And seissit nocht ser lourence till thay saw
Bot quhew he saw pe raches cum on raw
Vnto pe cok he said in mynde god then 160
Sen I and thow wer liftit in my den
Than spak pe cok w1 sum guid spreit mspyrit
Do my counsale and I sail warrand the
Hungrie thow art and for grit travell tyrit
Rycht fant of force and may no* forder flee 165
Swyith turne agane and say pat I and 3e
ffreindis ar maid / and fallowis for a 3eir
Than will pa] stynt I stand for it and no* steir
This Fox thocht he was fals and friuelouft
And hes fraudis his quarrelb's to defend 170
Dissauit was throw mynis marvellous
ffor falsheid fail3eis at pe latter end
He tumit about / and cryit as he was kend
W* pat pe cok brade vnto a buche
Now reid 3e sail qrat ser lowrence luche
1 Hunterian Club edition inserts [thay].
175
163
Till at pe last his synnis could him leid
To schamefull end and to ^one suddane deid 145
Thairfore I wait it was pe hand of god
That causit him be wirreit with pe tod
Quhew bis was said / pe wedow fra hir swoun
Stert vp in haist / and on hir kewnattis cryid
How birkye / burrye / bell / balsye / broun 150
Rypeschaw / ryn weill / courteft / cutt / and clyid /
Togidder all but gruwcheing furth 3e glyid
Reskew my nobill cok or he be slane
Or ellis to me / se 3c cum nevir agane
With pat but bade 1 breddit our pe bent 155
As fyre of flynt pat our pe feildis flaw
Wichtlye I wift throw woddis and watteris we«t
And seissit nocht ser lourence till thay saw
Bot quhew he saw pe raches cum on raw
Vnto pe cok he said in mynde god then 160
Sen I and thow wer liftit in my den
Than spak pe cok w1 sum guid spreit mspyrit
Do my counsale and I sail warrand the
Hungrie thow art and for grit travell tyrit
Rycht fant of force and may no* forder flee 165
Swyith turne agane and say pat I and 3e
ffreindis ar maid / and fallowis for a 3eir
Than will pa] stynt I stand for it and no* steir
This Fox thocht he was fals and friuelouft
And hes fraudis his quarrelb's to defend 170
Dissauit was throw mynis marvellous
ffor falsheid fail3eis at pe latter end
He tumit about / and cryit as he was kend
W* pat pe cok brade vnto a buche
Now reid 3e sail qrat ser lowrence luche
1 Hunterian Club edition inserts [thay].
175
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 4, 1930 > (189) |
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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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