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THE FLYTING OF MONTGOMERIE AND POLWART. 153
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How that gaist had bene gottin, to gesse thei began,
Weill sweddelled in a swyns skine and smeirit over w/'t/t suit;
The bellie at it first bare full bitterlie they bann.
Of this mismaid mowdewart, mischeife they muit.
That crooked, cramschohe cryll, wncristend, they curft 5295
They bad that baith should not be but
The glengoir, graveill, and the gut,
And all the plagues that first was put
Into Pandoraes purfte.
“ The coch and the cannoch, the colik & cald, 300
The cordex and the Goutewill, the claspis & the cleiks,
The hunger and the hairtill, and the host schall J>e hold;
The botche and the barbies, with the canigait breikw,
Wixh bokblud, bainespavin, sprong in J?e spald,1
The fersie, the falling-evill, that fells monie a freek, 305
Overgane all withe angleberries, as thow growes auld,
The kinkhost, the charbuncle, & wormes in thy cheeikw,
The snufe and the snore, the chaudpift, and the canker,
With the bladdes and bellithraw,
The bleirring battes and the baneschaw, 310
With mischeif of the melt and maw,
The clap and canker.
“ The frencie, the fluxes, the fyke, and the felt,
The feaveirs, the fercie, with the Specie flies,
The doit and the dismall, indefferantlie delt, 31 5
The powlings, the palsie, with pock^r lik peis,
The swerfe and the sweiting, with sounding to swelt,
The wonbill, the wildfyre, the vomit and the veis,
The mair and the Ingrame,2 with meiths in thy melt,
The warbles, the wood-worme, wherof dogs deis, 320
F. 26 b. The tisicke, the toothaike, the titer and tides,
1 This line is written in the margin by the scribe.
2 ‘ Mygrame ’ in the margin in a later hand.