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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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[laing MS.
If sin In me god suld respect, 65
Than do I knaw full will,
hes Justice wald me sone rewers
To J>e deip pitt of hell.
His glorius eyis can nocht abayd
the full and1 fillthe smuk, 70
quhairwftA I am, on everie said,
Coweritt as wz't/z ane Clok.
F. 35 b. Bott he in Chryst dois me behald,
In quhome he dois delytt;
And myn offences manifold, 75
throw him releiffitt quytt.
Reputting me amang the Just,
Forgeifing all my sun,
Thairfor my faithe, my houp, my trest,
Sell ever be In hem. 80
O Lord, Increft trew faithe In me,
Thy guid spritt to me geif,
Thatt I my grow \n lowe to the,
And evir seik to leiff
In trew obedience of J?ai will, 85
And thankfullnes of hairtt 3
And wz’t^ J>ai graice so gaid me still,
Thatt [I] my newir depairtt
Frome thy trew[th], lord, and testement,
all J>e dayis of my lyff; 90
nor frome2 )>a.\ Churche most Innocentt,
thy awin trew spous & wyf.
1 MS. fullane. 2 MS. frome.
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22$
[laing MS.
If sin In me god suld respect, 65
Than do I knaw full will,
hes Justice wald me sone rewers
To J>e deip pitt of hell.
His glorius eyis can nocht abayd
the full and1 fillthe smuk, 70
quhairwftA I am, on everie said,
Coweritt as wz't/z ane Clok.
F. 35 b. Bott he in Chryst dois me behald,
In quhome he dois delytt;
And myn offences manifold, 75
throw him releiffitt quytt.
Reputting me amang the Just,
Forgeifing all my sun,
Thairfor my faithe, my houp, my trest,
Sell ever be In hem. 80
O Lord, Increft trew faithe In me,
Thy guid spritt to me geif,
Thatt I my grow \n lowe to the,
And evir seik to leiff
In trew obedience of J?ai will, 85
And thankfullnes of hairtt 3
And wz’t^ J>ai graice so gaid me still,
Thatt [I] my newir depairtt
Frome thy trew[th], lord, and testement,
all J>e dayis of my lyff; 90
nor frome2 )>a.\ Churche most Innocentt,
thy awin trew spous & wyf.
1 MS. fullane. 2 MS. frome.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Poems of Alexander Montgomerie > (304) |
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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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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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| Description | Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts. |
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