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THE FLYTING OF MONTGOMERIE AND POLVVART. 185
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jfOltb fly tier, shite shytter, bacon bytter, all defyld ! 720
Blunt bleitter, paddock pricker, puddein eatter, /erverft!
Henn plucker, clossett mucker, houft caker, very vyld!
Tannie cheeks, I think thow speiks wzt/% thy breeks, foull ers!
Wood tyk, hoodpyk, ay like to live into lake!
Floure the pinn, scabbed skine! eit it in \>at thou speiks. 725
011111095, bald skade, foull1 faide, quhy flait thow ?
Steil 30W, fill tow, now thow dowe not defend thee.
Wha kend thy end, fals fiend,2 phantastick muill!
theif smye ! they wald cry, fy ! fy ! to gar end thee.
Sweir sow, doild kow, ay fow, foull fall thy banes! 730
Verie vyld, defyld, ay woodwyld, ilk month anes.
Tarrie taid, thows defait; now debait the, if thow dow.
Hush padle, lick ladle, shyt sadle, thows be drest.
Creishie soutter, shoo clooter, minche moutter, dar thow
• ••••••
Fals preife, lean theiff! mischeif fall thy lipps !
Blaird baird, thy rewaird is prepared for thy hipps!
Erse slaiker, gled glaiker, roome Raiker for releiffe,
Lunaticke, frenatick,4 Swingeor! Sobb.
Turd facd, ay chasd, almost fyld for a theife!
Mislie kite, and thow flyte, Me dryte in thy gobb. 740
Tout mowe, woodie sow, sone bowe, or I wand thee,
Hell ruik! with thy book, leiue Ipe nuike, I command thee.
mow ?
3
735
1 Repeated in MS.
3 Line omitted in MS.
2 MS. fiend.
4 MS. frematick.
[harleian
.32 A
jfOltb fly tier, shite shytter, bacon bytter, all defyld ! 720
Blunt bleitter, paddock pricker, puddein eatter, /erverft!
Henn plucker, clossett mucker, houft caker, very vyld!
Tannie cheeks, I think thow speiks wzt/% thy breeks, foull ers!
Wood tyk, hoodpyk, ay like to live into lake!
Floure the pinn, scabbed skine! eit it in \>at thou speiks. 725
011111095, bald skade, foull1 faide, quhy flait thow ?
Steil 30W, fill tow, now thow dowe not defend thee.
Wha kend thy end, fals fiend,2 phantastick muill!
theif smye ! they wald cry, fy ! fy ! to gar end thee.
Sweir sow, doild kow, ay fow, foull fall thy banes! 730
Verie vyld, defyld, ay woodwyld, ilk month anes.
Tarrie taid, thows defait; now debait the, if thow dow.
Hush padle, lick ladle, shyt sadle, thows be drest.
Creishie soutter, shoo clooter, minche moutter, dar thow
• ••••••
Fals preife, lean theiff! mischeif fall thy lipps !
Blaird baird, thy rewaird is prepared for thy hipps!
Erse slaiker, gled glaiker, roome Raiker for releiffe,
Lunaticke, frenatick,4 Swingeor! Sobb.
Turd facd, ay chasd, almost fyld for a theife!
Mislie kite, and thow flyte, Me dryte in thy gobb. 740
Tout mowe, woodie sow, sone bowe, or I wand thee,
Hell ruik! with thy book, leiue Ipe nuike, I command thee.
mow ?
3
735
1 Repeated in MS.
3 Line omitted in MS.
2 MS. fiend.
4 MS. frematick.
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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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