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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
Quha is at eis quhen bayt£ ar now in blis 425
Bot fresche king hart that cleirlie is aboue
And wantis noc^t in warld p«t he wald wift
And traistis nocht that euir he sail remove
Sewin 3eir and moir ft/r lyking and fkr loue
Off him pai haue the cure and goumiance 430
Quhill at the last befell and sua behuif
Ane changeing new thay1 grevit dame plesance
[p. 240] A morrowing tyde quhen at the sone so schene
Out raschit had his bemis frome the sky
Ane auld gudlie ma« befoir pe ^et was sene 435
Apone ane steid p#t raid full easalie
he rappit at the 3et but courtaslie
3it at the straik the grit dungeoufi can din
Syn at the last he schowtit fellonlie
And bad pame ryft and said he wald cum in 440
Sone wantownnes come to the wall abone
and cryit our quhat folk ar 3e pairout
My name is age said he agane full sone
May thow noc^t heir langar how I culd schout
Quhat war ^oux will I will cum in but dout 445
Now god forbid in fayt/z 3e cum nozr/zt heir
Rin on thy way [or] thow sail beir ane route
And say the portar he is wonder sweir
Sone wantownnes he went vnto the king
And tald him all the caift quhow p«t It stude 450
That taill I traist be na leissing
he wes to cum p«t wist I be the rude
It dois me noy be god in bone and blude
That he suld cum sa sone quhat haist had he
The quene said to hald him out war gude 455
That wald I fayne 2 war doin2 and It micht be
1 Sic,
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MAITLAND FOLIO MS.
Quha is at eis quhen bayt£ ar now in blis 425
Bot fresche king hart that cleirlie is aboue
And wantis noc^t in warld p«t he wald wift
And traistis nocht that euir he sail remove
Sewin 3eir and moir ft/r lyking and fkr loue
Off him pai haue the cure and goumiance 430
Quhill at the last befell and sua behuif
Ane changeing new thay1 grevit dame plesance
[p. 240] A morrowing tyde quhen at the sone so schene
Out raschit had his bemis frome the sky
Ane auld gudlie ma« befoir pe ^et was sene 435
Apone ane steid p#t raid full easalie
he rappit at the 3et but courtaslie
3it at the straik the grit dungeoufi can din
Syn at the last he schowtit fellonlie
And bad pame ryft and said he wald cum in 440
Sone wantownnes come to the wall abone
and cryit our quhat folk ar 3e pairout
My name is age said he agane full sone
May thow noc^t heir langar how I culd schout
Quhat war ^oux will I will cum in but dout 445
Now god forbid in fayt/z 3e cum nozr/zt heir
Rin on thy way [or] thow sail beir ane route
And say the portar he is wonder sweir
Sone wantownnes he went vnto the king
And tald him all the caift quhow p«t It stude 450
That taill I traist be na leissing
he wes to cum p«t wist I be the rude
It dois me noy be god in bone and blude
That he suld cum sa sone quhat haist had he
The quene said to hald him out war gude 455
That wald I fayne 2 war doin2 and It micht be
1 Sic,
2-2 Interlined.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Maitland folio manuscript > Volume 1, 1919 > (300) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/107623408 |
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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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