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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE.
US
87. [WREITTOUN
When Hope was gald into the quick, 1205
Quoth Courage, kicking at the prick,
“Wee let you well to wit;
Make hee you welcomer than wee,
Then bygones, bygones, farewell he,
Except hee seeke us yet. 1210
Hee understands his owne estate,
Let him his chiftanes chuse;
But yet his battel will bee blate,
If hee our force refuse.
Refuse us, or chuse us, 1215
Our counsel is, hee dim ;
But stay hee, or stray hee,
We have none1 help for him.
88.
“Except the Cherrie be his chose,
Bee ye his friends, wee are his foes; 1220
His doings we despite.
If we perceive him satled sa
To satisfie him with the Slae,
His company we quite.”
Then Dread and Danger grew so 2 glad, 1225
And wont that they had wun;
They thought all seald that they had said,
Sen they had first begun.
They thought then, they mought then
Without a partie plead; 1230
But yet there, with Wit there,
They were dung downe indeed.3
1 E. nae.
2 E. full.
3 E. with speid.
US
87. [WREITTOUN
When Hope was gald into the quick, 1205
Quoth Courage, kicking at the prick,
“Wee let you well to wit;
Make hee you welcomer than wee,
Then bygones, bygones, farewell he,
Except hee seeke us yet. 1210
Hee understands his owne estate,
Let him his chiftanes chuse;
But yet his battel will bee blate,
If hee our force refuse.
Refuse us, or chuse us, 1215
Our counsel is, hee dim ;
But stay hee, or stray hee,
We have none1 help for him.
88.
“Except the Cherrie be his chose,
Bee ye his friends, wee are his foes; 1220
His doings we despite.
If we perceive him satled sa
To satisfie him with the Slae,
His company we quite.”
Then Dread and Danger grew so 2 glad, 1225
And wont that they had wun;
They thought all seald that they had said,
Sen they had first begun.
They thought then, they mought then
Without a partie plead; 1230
But yet there, with Wit there,
They were dung downe indeed.3
1 E. nae.
2 E. full.
3 E. with speid.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of Alexander Montgomerie > (194) |
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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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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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