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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE. 99
55. [WREITTOUN
“ For I, Experience, was there,
Like as I use to bee all where,
What time hee wited Will
To be the ground of all his griefe, 760
As I my selfe can bee a priefe
And witnes thereuntill.
There are no bounds but I have beene,
Nor hidlings from mee hid,
Nor secret things but1 I have scene, 765
That he or any did;
Therefore now, no more now,
Let him thinke to concealde;
For why now, even I now
Am debtbound to reveald.” 770
56.
“ My custome is for to declare
The truth, and neither eke nor paire
For any man a ioate:
If wilful Will delytes in lyes,
Example in thy selfe thou sees, 775
How he can turne his coate,
And with his language would allure
Thee yet to breake thy bones:
Thou knowes thyself if he be 2 sure :
Thou usde his counsell ones; 780
Who would yet behold 3 yet
To wreak thee, were not wee.4
Thinke on you on yon now,”
Quoth Wisedome then to mee.
2 E.W,2 was. 3 E. be bauld Jet; W.2 be bald jit.
4 Cf. pp. 56, 57.
1 E. that.
THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE. 99
55. [WREITTOUN
“ For I, Experience, was there,
Like as I use to bee all where,
What time hee wited Will
To be the ground of all his griefe, 760
As I my selfe can bee a priefe
And witnes thereuntill.
There are no bounds but I have beene,
Nor hidlings from mee hid,
Nor secret things but1 I have scene, 765
That he or any did;
Therefore now, no more now,
Let him thinke to concealde;
For why now, even I now
Am debtbound to reveald.” 770
56.
“ My custome is for to declare
The truth, and neither eke nor paire
For any man a ioate:
If wilful Will delytes in lyes,
Example in thy selfe thou sees, 775
How he can turne his coate,
And with his language would allure
Thee yet to breake thy bones:
Thou knowes thyself if he be 2 sure :
Thou usde his counsell ones; 780
Who would yet behold 3 yet
To wreak thee, were not wee.4
Thinke on you on yon now,”
Quoth Wisedome then to mee.
2 E.W,2 was. 3 E. be bauld Jet; W.2 be bald jit.
4 Cf. pp. 56, 57.
1 E. that.
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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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