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236 BANNATYNE MS.
May in this warld perpetualy indure
This is a sentens suth I 30W assure
For till oppreft thow sail half als grit pane
As thow the pure anis w1 thy hand had slane
God keip pe lame pat is the Innocent 155
Fra wolffis byt I mene extorteneiris
God grant pat wrangus men of fals intent
Be manifest and pvneist as effeiris
And god as thow all rychtous prayer heiris
Mot saif our king and gif him hairt and hand 160
All sic wolffis to benneift of this land
Explicit q mf R H
1 Fable
XIII.
e Lyon In myddis of lune pat lolv sueit sessoun
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Moult1 Quhen pat fair phebus with his bemis brycht
Page 727 Had dryit vp pe dew fra daill and doun fol
And all the land maid w* his lemys ly1
In a momyng betuix midday and ny1
I raift and put all slewth and sleip on syd ‘
Ontill a wod I went allone but gyd
Sueit wes the smell of flop's quhyt and reid
The noyis of birdis ry* delicius
The bewis bred blwmyt abone my heid 10
The grund growand w‘ greft gratius
off all plesans that place wes plenteus
W1 sueit odour and birdis armony
The mornyng myld my mirth wes mair for thy
The roifft reid arreyit rone and ryft 15
The prumroft and the purpour viola
To heir it was a poynt of paradyft
1—1 Written by the same hand as the titles of the previous twelve Fables.
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