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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
LAING MS.]
“ O lustie lufe of luferis all,” 85
This lady sayis,
“ 3our wordis w/th weping makis me fall,
This all my dayis,
To pas with 30W in ony place,
Quhair euer je pleift,” 90
Into hir armes sche did him brace,
And to him sayis :
F. 8 a. “ O trew luif myne, q«Mk is myne awin,
And ay salbe,
Desyring 30W bat it war knawin, 95
That 30 wad marie me.”
“ To marie the ! ” he sayis agane,
“ How micht bat be ?
For sindrie tymes ^e schew me plane
My law degree, 100
And said thy frendis wald noc/it consent,
Nor gif je leive,
And bad me seik sum medicene,
Qnhilk did me greive ;
Most rissolut expell[t] my suite1 105
In termis hie :2
3e and ^our freindis thay may go hence,
And seik no luif of me.”
Finis quod nescio.
X.
[REDOLENT ROIS, MY ONLIE SCHOIS.]
F. 72 a. Redolent roife, my onlie schois,
I man disclois my siching sair;
my frendle fois, throat passing wois,
for to reioft I may no main
1 MS. frute. 2 Written over the word “ intermitive,” which is stroked out.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
LAING MS.]
“ O lustie lufe of luferis all,” 85
This lady sayis,
“ 3our wordis w/th weping makis me fall,
This all my dayis,
To pas with 30W in ony place,
Quhair euer je pleift,” 90
Into hir armes sche did him brace,
And to him sayis :
F. 8 a. “ O trew luif myne, q«Mk is myne awin,
And ay salbe,
Desyring 30W bat it war knawin, 95
That 30 wad marie me.”
“ To marie the ! ” he sayis agane,
“ How micht bat be ?
For sindrie tymes ^e schew me plane
My law degree, 100
And said thy frendis wald noc/it consent,
Nor gif je leive,
And bad me seik sum medicene,
Qnhilk did me greive ;
Most rissolut expell[t] my suite1 105
In termis hie :2
3e and ^our freindis thay may go hence,
And seik no luif of me.”
Finis quod nescio.
X.
[REDOLENT ROIS, MY ONLIE SCHOIS.]
F. 72 a. Redolent roife, my onlie schois,
I man disclois my siching sair;
my frendle fois, throat passing wois,
for to reioft I may no main
1 MS. frute. 2 Written over the word “ intermitive,” which is stroked out.
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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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