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THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAB.
WREITTOUN] ioi.
Then Reason rose with gesture grave,
Belyve conveening all the lave,
To see1 what they would say;
With silver scepter in his hand,
As Chiftane chosen to command, 1405
And they bent to obey.
He pansed long before he spake,
And in a study stood;
Syne hee began and silence brake :
“Come on,” quoth he, “conclude 1410
What way now we may now
Yon Cherrie come to catch;
Speak out, sirs, about, sirs;
Have done—let us dispatch.”
102.
Quoth Courage, “scourge him first that skars; 1415
Much musing memory but marres;
I tell you mine intent.”
Quoth Wit, “ who will not partly panse
In perils, perishes perchance,
Ov’r rackles may repent.” 1420
“Then,” quoth Experience, and spake,
“ Sir, I have scene them baith,
In bairnlines 2 and lye aback,
Escape and come to skaith.
But what now of that now? 1425
Sturt followes all extreames:
Retaine then the meane then,
The surest way it seemes.
1 E. heir.
2 E. braidieness.
THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAB.
WREITTOUN] ioi.
Then Reason rose with gesture grave,
Belyve conveening all the lave,
To see1 what they would say;
With silver scepter in his hand,
As Chiftane chosen to command, 1405
And they bent to obey.
He pansed long before he spake,
And in a study stood;
Syne hee began and silence brake :
“Come on,” quoth he, “conclude 1410
What way now we may now
Yon Cherrie come to catch;
Speak out, sirs, about, sirs;
Have done—let us dispatch.”
102.
Quoth Courage, “scourge him first that skars; 1415
Much musing memory but marres;
I tell you mine intent.”
Quoth Wit, “ who will not partly panse
In perils, perishes perchance,
Ov’r rackles may repent.” 1420
“Then,” quoth Experience, and spake,
“ Sir, I have scene them baith,
In bairnlines 2 and lye aback,
Escape and come to skaith.
But what now of that now? 1425
Sturt followes all extreames:
Retaine then the meane then,
The surest way it seemes.
1 E. heir.
2 E. braidieness.
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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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