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Ixxiv
INTRODUCTION.
the Evergreen with the manuscript; and the collation
in some places is exceedingly careless.1
1 The following table shows the readings of Ramsay, Hailes, and the
Hunterian Club edition of the Bannatyne MS., in the first forty lines of
Dunbar’s Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy. Readings that agree with
Hailes’s are omitted. The distinction between y and z, u, v, and w, is not
observed.
Line.
Ramsay.
Hailes.
Hunterian Club.
1
2
3
S
7
9
10
11
12
14
15
16
17
18
20
22
24
26
27
28
29
3°
32
33
34
36
37
38
40
A curio
I cannot, Faith
But this in Truth
maun
die
forte
blind
could not
2it
leave my Saul
gude Wyne Cellar
Till Dumesday cum
without Dissever
luved
wald
aft
Braith
forgave
wraith
leur
late
Lords braw Bed of
State
A Barrell being ay at
my Bosom
nae
unto the Toun
a
eir
sepelire
custen
Master
A [matre]
Begotten
In faith I can nocht
redely
Bot in truth
nihil
man
de
sorte
blynd
Throw nicht
mycht nocht
aeger
Yet
mouth
testamentum
leif my saule
wyne-cellar
Till domesday cum
without dissiver
lufit
wuld
oft
breth
mihi
forgaif
wreth
cellar
ceivisia
lever
lait
Than
lordis bed of stait
Ane barrel being ay
at my bosum
Of warldiy gude
na
unto the town
ane
midding
evir
sepeliri
castin
Maister
Curro
Gottin
redly
Bot in trewth
nichill
mone
forte
This nyght
micht nocht
eger
Yit
mowth
testimentum
wyne sellair
Quhill domisday with¬
out dissiuer
wald
michi
cellario
ceruicio
Nor
Ane barrell bung ay
at my bosum
Off warldis gud
in to the toun
mydding
These forty lines are a fair specimen of the differences of the three texts
throughout the poem, but the poem is not quite a fair specimen of Hailes’s
work.
INTRODUCTION.
the Evergreen with the manuscript; and the collation
in some places is exceedingly careless.1
1 The following table shows the readings of Ramsay, Hailes, and the
Hunterian Club edition of the Bannatyne MS., in the first forty lines of
Dunbar’s Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy. Readings that agree with
Hailes’s are omitted. The distinction between y and z, u, v, and w, is not
observed.
Line.
Ramsay.
Hailes.
Hunterian Club.
1
2
3
S
7
9
10
11
12
14
15
16
17
18
20
22
24
26
27
28
29
3°
32
33
34
36
37
38
40
A curio
I cannot, Faith
But this in Truth
maun
die
forte
blind
could not
2it
leave my Saul
gude Wyne Cellar
Till Dumesday cum
without Dissever
luved
wald
aft
Braith
forgave
wraith
leur
late
Lords braw Bed of
State
A Barrell being ay at
my Bosom
nae
unto the Toun
a
eir
sepelire
custen
Master
A [matre]
Begotten
In faith I can nocht
redely
Bot in truth
nihil
man
de
sorte
blynd
Throw nicht
mycht nocht
aeger
Yet
mouth
testamentum
leif my saule
wyne-cellar
Till domesday cum
without dissiver
lufit
wuld
oft
breth
mihi
forgaif
wreth
cellar
ceivisia
lever
lait
Than
lordis bed of stait
Ane barrel being ay
at my bosum
Of warldiy gude
na
unto the town
ane
midding
evir
sepeliri
castin
Maister
Curro
Gottin
redly
Bot in trewth
nichill
mone
forte
This nyght
micht nocht
eger
Yit
mowth
testimentum
wyne sellair
Quhill domisday with¬
out dissiuer
wald
michi
cellario
ceruicio
Nor
Ane barrell bung ay
at my bosum
Off warldis gud
in to the toun
mydding
These forty lines are a fair specimen of the differences of the three texts
throughout the poem, but the poem is not quite a fair specimen of Hailes’s
work.
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