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BANNATYNE MS.
165
To loife and lee qlk settis pair delyte
All worthy folk at sic suld hafe dispyte
ffor quhair is moir penlovS^ pestilence
Than gif£ to liaris haistelye credence 210
Flattery This wikkit wind of adulatioun
Off swete socour haifand a similitude
Bittir of gall and full of fell poysoun
quha tastis It / and clerelye vnderstude
fforthy as now schortly for to conclude 215
Thir twa synnis flattery and vaine glore
Ar venemouft guid folk fie pame pairioxe
1 Incipit
aliam fa
Fable IV. Lewe we this wedow gled I 30W assure
The Fox Off chanteclere more blyith than I can tell
Wolf 1 And speke we of pe fatal aventure
And destenye that to pis fox befell
That durst no more w1 miching Intmnell 5
Als lang as leme and lycht was of pe day
But bydand nycht full still lurkand he lay
Quhill pat Thetes pe goddefft of pe flude
Phebus had callit to pe herverye
And Esperus put of his cloudy hude 10
Schawand his lustye visage in pe skye
Than Lourence lukit vp quhare he coud lye
And kest him hand vpoun his Ee on hicht
Mery and gled pat cuwmyn was pe nycht
Out of pe wod vnto ane hill he went 15
quhare he mycht se the twynkling stemis clere
And all pe planetis of pe firmament
Thair coursis / and pair moving in pair sphere
1—1 Written by the same hand as the titles on fol. 299 a, 302 a, and 310 b.
165
To loife and lee qlk settis pair delyte
All worthy folk at sic suld hafe dispyte
ffor quhair is moir penlovS^ pestilence
Than gif£ to liaris haistelye credence 210
Flattery This wikkit wind of adulatioun
Off swete socour haifand a similitude
Bittir of gall and full of fell poysoun
quha tastis It / and clerelye vnderstude
fforthy as now schortly for to conclude 215
Thir twa synnis flattery and vaine glore
Ar venemouft guid folk fie pame pairioxe
1 Incipit
aliam fa
Fable IV. Lewe we this wedow gled I 30W assure
The Fox Off chanteclere more blyith than I can tell
Wolf 1 And speke we of pe fatal aventure
And destenye that to pis fox befell
That durst no more w1 miching Intmnell 5
Als lang as leme and lycht was of pe day
But bydand nycht full still lurkand he lay
Quhill pat Thetes pe goddefft of pe flude
Phebus had callit to pe herverye
And Esperus put of his cloudy hude 10
Schawand his lustye visage in pe skye
Than Lourence lukit vp quhare he coud lye
And kest him hand vpoun his Ee on hicht
Mery and gled pat cuwmyn was pe nycht
Out of pe wod vnto ane hill he went 15
quhare he mycht se the twynkling stemis clere
And all pe planetis of pe firmament
Thair coursis / and pair moving in pair sphere
1—1 Written by the same hand as the titles on fol. 299 a, 302 a, and 310 b.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 4, 1930 > (191) |
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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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