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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE.
8l
19.
Then felt I Courage and Desire
Inflame mine heart with uncouth fire,
To me before unknowne;
But then1 no blood in me remaines,
Vnburnt or 2 boyld within my vaines,3
By loves bellowes blown e.4
To drowne 5 it, ere 6 I was devourde,
With sighs I went about;
But ay the more I shoope to smoor’de,
The bolder it brake out,
Ay preasing, but ceasing,
While it might break the bounds
Mine 7 hew so, foorth shew so,
The dolour of my wounds.
20.
With deadly visage, pale and wan,
More like Anatomic 8 than man,
I withered cleane away :
As waxe before the fire, I felt
Mine heart within my bosome melt,
And piece and piece decay,
My veines by 9 brangling like to break-
My punses lap with pith—
So fervency did mee infect,
That I was vext therewith.
Mine heart ay, it10 start ay,
The firie flames to flee :
Ay howping, through lowping,
To leape at libertie.
1 E.W.2 now. 2 E.W.2 Unbrunt and.
4 E. By Luve his Bellies blawin. 5 E.W.2 quench.
7 E.W.2 My. 8 Cf. pp. 20, 21. 9 E.W.2 with.
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3 Orig. braines.
6 E.W.2 or.
10 E.W.2 did.
8l
19.
Then felt I Courage and Desire
Inflame mine heart with uncouth fire,
To me before unknowne;
But then1 no blood in me remaines,
Vnburnt or 2 boyld within my vaines,3
By loves bellowes blown e.4
To drowne 5 it, ere 6 I was devourde,
With sighs I went about;
But ay the more I shoope to smoor’de,
The bolder it brake out,
Ay preasing, but ceasing,
While it might break the bounds
Mine 7 hew so, foorth shew so,
The dolour of my wounds.
20.
With deadly visage, pale and wan,
More like Anatomic 8 than man,
I withered cleane away :
As waxe before the fire, I felt
Mine heart within my bosome melt,
And piece and piece decay,
My veines by 9 brangling like to break-
My punses lap with pith—
So fervency did mee infect,
That I was vext therewith.
Mine heart ay, it10 start ay,
The firie flames to flee :
Ay howping, through lowping,
To leape at libertie.
1 E.W.2 now. 2 E.W.2 Unbrunt and.
4 E. By Luve his Bellies blawin. 5 E.W.2 quench.
7 E.W.2 My. 8 Cf. pp. 20, 21. 9 E.W.2 with.
F
[WREITTOUN
255
260
265
270
275
280
3 Orig. braines.
6 E.W.2 or.
10 E.W.2 did.
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| Description | And other pieces from Laing MS. No. 447. Supplementary volume. Edited with introduction, appendices, notes and glossary by George Stevenson. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1910. |
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