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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
209
[laing MS.
<\uha\. cruell cair, (\uhaX. deip dispair, 5
maybe cmpairt into my pairt ?
quha may repair my siching sair,
or sail prepair to mand my smairt ?
Except my sueit, wz'th hairt zwztreit,
I do repeit w/th fervencie, 10
(\uhi\V. to retreit, luif causis fleit,
for sorrow, heit of ardencie.
Sen destinie, my libertie,
Alluterlie is reft away,
assuring me that I sail die, 15
Except 30 be ^e onle stay.1
Sen J>at I now on force mu« bow
to 30W, in deid, to seik remeid,
houping thairthro 3c will allow,
to quha I bow I sail proced, 20
seiking but dreid, favour, or steid,
Till atropis threid my lyve devoir :
To seik my deid, 3o«r name will spreid,
as homicede for euermore.
my hairt, convert ]?is dairt fra me, 25
my luif, remow Jus ruif of cair,
my deir, apeir, Jpat feir my 2 fle,
my dow, be now my conforter ;
F. 72 b. my bird, 3ozzr word, as suord, is sair ;
my breist, is persit wzt^ uyolence : 30
me saif, I craif, to haif na mair
bot hert for hert in recompence.
1 Between this stanza and the next a line is drawn in the MS.
2 my=may.
O
209
[laing MS.
<\uha\. cruell cair, (\uhaX. deip dispair, 5
maybe cmpairt into my pairt ?
quha may repair my siching sair,
or sail prepair to mand my smairt ?
Except my sueit, wz'th hairt zwztreit,
I do repeit w/th fervencie, 10
(\uhi\V. to retreit, luif causis fleit,
for sorrow, heit of ardencie.
Sen destinie, my libertie,
Alluterlie is reft away,
assuring me that I sail die, 15
Except 30 be ^e onle stay.1
Sen J>at I now on force mu« bow
to 30W, in deid, to seik remeid,
houping thairthro 3c will allow,
to quha I bow I sail proced, 20
seiking but dreid, favour, or steid,
Till atropis threid my lyve devoir :
To seik my deid, 3o«r name will spreid,
as homicede for euermore.
my hairt, convert ]?is dairt fra me, 25
my luif, remow Jus ruif of cair,
my deir, apeir, Jpat feir my 2 fle,
my dow, be now my conforter ;
F. 72 b. my bird, 3ozzr word, as suord, is sair ;
my breist, is persit wzt^ uyolence : 30
me saif, I craif, to haif na mair
bot hert for hert in recompence.
1 Between this stanza and the next a line is drawn in the MS.
2 my=may.
O
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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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