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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE.
eittoun] 49.1
Quoth Reason, “ why was he debarde ?
The tale is ill cannot2 be heard ;
Yet let us heare him anes.”
Then Danger to declare began,
How Hope and Courage tooke the man,
To leade them3 all their lanes ;
How 4 they would have him up the hill,
But either stoppe or stay;
And who was welcomer than Will 1
He would be foremost ay:
He could doe, and should doe,
Who ever would or nought.
Such speeding proceeding
Vnlikely was, I thought.
5°.5
“ Therefore I wisht him 6 to beware,
And rashly not to run ou’r far,
Without such guides as yee.”
Quoth Courage, “ friend, I heare you faile,
Take better tent unto your tale,
Ye said it could not bee:
Besides that ye would not consent
That ever we should dim.”
Quoth Wil, “ for my part I repent,
We saw them more than him;
For they are the stayare
Of us, as well as hee:
I thinke now they shrinke now :
Goe forward, let them bee.
2 E.W.2 may not.
4 E.W.3 For.
6 E.W.2 them.
In orig. wrongly numbered 57.
E. him ; W.2 and led him.
In orig. wrongly numbered 58.
eittoun] 49.1
Quoth Reason, “ why was he debarde ?
The tale is ill cannot2 be heard ;
Yet let us heare him anes.”
Then Danger to declare began,
How Hope and Courage tooke the man,
To leade them3 all their lanes ;
How 4 they would have him up the hill,
But either stoppe or stay;
And who was welcomer than Will 1
He would be foremost ay:
He could doe, and should doe,
Who ever would or nought.
Such speeding proceeding
Vnlikely was, I thought.
5°.5
“ Therefore I wisht him 6 to beware,
And rashly not to run ou’r far,
Without such guides as yee.”
Quoth Courage, “ friend, I heare you faile,
Take better tent unto your tale,
Ye said it could not bee:
Besides that ye would not consent
That ever we should dim.”
Quoth Wil, “ for my part I repent,
We saw them more than him;
For they are the stayare
Of us, as well as hee:
I thinke now they shrinke now :
Goe forward, let them bee.
2 E.W.2 may not.
4 E.W.3 For.
6 E.W.2 them.
In orig. wrongly numbered 57.
E. him ; W.2 and led him.
In orig. wrongly numbered 58.
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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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