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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
All lustie wovvaris and hardie chevaleiris IO
Go dreft 3our horft 3our harneft and ^our geiris
To rin at listis to lust and to turnay
That it may cum on to jour ladeis eiris
Quha in the feild maist valeantlie him beiris
And je fair ladeis put on jour best array i 5
Requeist joung men to ryd in jour leveray
That for jour saik thai may breik twentie speiris
fifor luif of jow joung lustie ladyis gay
All burrowis townis eu^rilk maw jow prayis
To mak bainfyris fairseis and clerk playis
And throw jour rewis carrellis danft and sing
And at jour croce gar wyn rin sindrie wayis
As wes the custome in our eldaris dayis
Quhen pat thai maid triwwphe for ony thing
And all jour stairis w/t^ tapessarie gar hing
Castellis schut guwnis schippis and galayis
Blaw vp jour trurnpatis and on jour dru/wmis
Preistis and clerkis and men of religioun
with devote mynd gang in processioun
And in jour queiris sing wit/i melodic 30
To the grit god mak intercessioun
[p. 35]To send our princeft gude successioun
With hir joung spous to our vtilitie
That eftir hir may governe this cuntrie
And ws defend from all oppressioun 35
And it conserve in law and libertie
3e lordis and all barounis of renowne
And all (e)staitis1 of this natioun
Mak grit triu;«phe mak banket and gude cheir
And euerilk maw put on his nuptiale gowne 40
1 There is a blur between all and staitis ; the Quarto and the Drummond text
have the e-.
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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
All lustie wovvaris and hardie chevaleiris IO
Go dreft 3our horft 3our harneft and ^our geiris
To rin at listis to lust and to turnay
That it may cum on to jour ladeis eiris
Quha in the feild maist valeantlie him beiris
And je fair ladeis put on jour best array i 5
Requeist joung men to ryd in jour leveray
That for jour saik thai may breik twentie speiris
fifor luif of jow joung lustie ladyis gay
All burrowis townis eu^rilk maw jow prayis
To mak bainfyris fairseis and clerk playis
And throw jour rewis carrellis danft and sing
And at jour croce gar wyn rin sindrie wayis
As wes the custome in our eldaris dayis
Quhen pat thai maid triwwphe for ony thing
And all jour stairis w/t^ tapessarie gar hing
Castellis schut guwnis schippis and galayis
Blaw vp jour trurnpatis and on jour dru/wmis
Preistis and clerkis and men of religioun
with devote mynd gang in processioun
And in jour queiris sing wit/i melodic 30
To the grit god mak intercessioun
[p. 35]To send our princeft gude successioun
With hir joung spous to our vtilitie
That eftir hir may governe this cuntrie
And ws defend from all oppressioun 35
And it conserve in law and libertie
3e lordis and all barounis of renowne
And all (e)staitis1 of this natioun
Mak grit triu;«phe mak banket and gude cheir
And euerilk maw put on his nuptiale gowne 40
1 There is a blur between all and staitis ; the Quarto and the Drummond text
have the e-.
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25
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Maitland folio manuscript > Volume 1, 1919 > (56) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107620480 |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.7 |
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| Description | Containing poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others / edited by W.A. Craigie. 2 volumes. Volume 1 contains the complete text of the Maitland folio manuscript from the original in the Pepysian library, Magdalene college, Cambridge, and Volume 2, a full description of the manuscript, together with textual notes, vocabulary, and other relevant matter. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.7, 20 |
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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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