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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE.
WREITTOUN] 29.
“ What canst thou losse, when honour lives ?
Renowne thy vertue ay revives,
If valiantly thou end.” 395
Quoth Danger: “huly, friend, take head;
Vntimous spurring spilles the stead :
Take tent what yee pretend.
Thogh Courage counsel thee to climb,
Beware thou kep no skaith : 400
Have thou no helpe, but Hope and him,
They may beguile thee baith.
Thysell now can1 tell now
The counsel of these2 Clarkes;
Wherethrow yet, I trow yet, 405
Thy breast doth beare the marks.
3°-
“ Burnt bairne with fire the danger dreads;
So I believe thy bosome bleeds,
Since last that fire thou felt:
Besides that seindle times thou sees 410
That ever Courage keeps the keyes
Of knowledge at his belt:
Though he bid fordward with the3 Gunnes,
Smal powder he provides :
Be not a Novice of that Nunnes 415
Who 4 saw not both the sides.
Fooles haste 5 ay, almaist ay,
Ou’rsyles the sight of some,
Who luikes not, or huikes not,6
What afterward may come. 420
1 E. may. 2 E.W.2 thae. 3 E. his. 4 E.W.2 That.
5 E. fale-haist; W.2 fuil-haist. 6 E. Quha huikis not, nor luikis not.
THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE.
WREITTOUN] 29.
“ What canst thou losse, when honour lives ?
Renowne thy vertue ay revives,
If valiantly thou end.” 395
Quoth Danger: “huly, friend, take head;
Vntimous spurring spilles the stead :
Take tent what yee pretend.
Thogh Courage counsel thee to climb,
Beware thou kep no skaith : 400
Have thou no helpe, but Hope and him,
They may beguile thee baith.
Thysell now can1 tell now
The counsel of these2 Clarkes;
Wherethrow yet, I trow yet, 405
Thy breast doth beare the marks.
3°-
“ Burnt bairne with fire the danger dreads;
So I believe thy bosome bleeds,
Since last that fire thou felt:
Besides that seindle times thou sees 410
That ever Courage keeps the keyes
Of knowledge at his belt:
Though he bid fordward with the3 Gunnes,
Smal powder he provides :
Be not a Novice of that Nunnes 415
Who 4 saw not both the sides.
Fooles haste 5 ay, almaist ay,
Ou’rsyles the sight of some,
Who luikes not, or huikes not,6
What afterward may come. 420
1 E. may. 2 E.W.2 thae. 3 E. his. 4 E.W.2 That.
5 E. fale-haist; W.2 fuil-haist. 6 E. Quha huikis not, nor luikis not.
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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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