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NOTES
TO
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
(Laing Manuscript.)
I.
192. 1. Luif still in hope with patience. Cf. the unidentified lines
quoted by King James in chapter two of his Reulis and Cautelis :—
“ Sen patience I man have perforce
I live in hope with patience.”
192. 18. At euerye schoure \ai may nocht schrink. Cf. Mont¬
gomerie, ‘Misc. Poems,’ xl. 45, ‘I shaip not for no suddan schours
to shrink ’; ‘ Cherrie and the Slae,’ 1. 48, ‘ Than schrink nocht for ane
schoure.’ Montgomerie’s fondness for ringing the changes on his own
phrases is noted both by Dr Cranstoun and Dr Brotanek, and cannot
fail to impress any careful reader of his poems.
193. 51. O deaisie deir. Cf. Montgomerie, ‘ Misc. Poems,’ xxxix. 1,
‘Adieu, O desie of delyt.’
The subject of the poem is a variation on a well-worn theme in the
chivalric love poetry which has its rise in the ‘ Romance of the Rose.’
Cf. 11. 25-40 with the following passage of William of Lorris’s poem
as given in the English translation :—
“And so for lovers in hir wening,
Whiche Love hath shit in his prisoun ;
Good-Hope is hir salvacioun.
Good-Hope, how sore that they smerte
Geveth hem bothe wille and herte
To profre hir body to martyre ;
For Hope so sore doth hem desyre
To suffre ech harm that men devyse,
For joye that aftir shal aryse.
TO
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
(Laing Manuscript.)
I.
192. 1. Luif still in hope with patience. Cf. the unidentified lines
quoted by King James in chapter two of his Reulis and Cautelis :—
“ Sen patience I man have perforce
I live in hope with patience.”
192. 18. At euerye schoure \ai may nocht schrink. Cf. Mont¬
gomerie, ‘Misc. Poems,’ xl. 45, ‘I shaip not for no suddan schours
to shrink ’; ‘ Cherrie and the Slae,’ 1. 48, ‘ Than schrink nocht for ane
schoure.’ Montgomerie’s fondness for ringing the changes on his own
phrases is noted both by Dr Cranstoun and Dr Brotanek, and cannot
fail to impress any careful reader of his poems.
193. 51. O deaisie deir. Cf. Montgomerie, ‘ Misc. Poems,’ xxxix. 1,
‘Adieu, O desie of delyt.’
The subject of the poem is a variation on a well-worn theme in the
chivalric love poetry which has its rise in the ‘ Romance of the Rose.’
Cf. 11. 25-40 with the following passage of William of Lorris’s poem
as given in the English translation :—
“And so for lovers in hir wening,
Whiche Love hath shit in his prisoun ;
Good-Hope is hir salvacioun.
Good-Hope, how sore that they smerte
Geveth hem bothe wille and herte
To profre hir body to martyre ;
For Hope so sore doth hem desyre
To suffre ech harm that men devyse,
For joye that aftir shal aryse.
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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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