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THE KINGIS QUAIR.
30 Bewailing In my chamber thus allone,
Despeired of all loye and remedye,
For-tirit of my tho^/it, and wo begone,
Unto1 the wyndow gan I walk In hye,
To se the warld and folk that went forby;
As for the tyme, though I of mirthis fude
Myg/it haue no more, to luke It did me gude.
31 Now was there maid fast by the touris wall
A gardyn faire, and in the cornem set
Ane herbere grene :—with wandis long and small
Railit about, and so with treis set
Was all the place, and hawthorn hegis knet,
That lyf was non walking there forby
That rayght within scarse ony wight aspye;
32 So thik the bewis and the leues grene
Beschadit all the aleyes that there were.
And myddis eue^y herbem my^t be sene
The scharp[e] grene suete lenepere,
Growing so faire with branchis here and there,
That, as It semyt to a lyf without,
The bewis spred the herbere all about;
33 And on the small[e] grene twistis sat
The lytill suete nyghtingale, and song
So loud and clere, the ympnis consecrat
Off lufis vse, now soft, now lowd among,
That all the gardyng and the wallis rong
Ry^/rt of thaire song, and of2 the copill next
Off thaire suete armony, and lo the text:
Cantus.
34 “ Worschippe, 30 that louem bene, this may,
For of 3oar blisse the kalendis are begonne,
And sing with vs, away, winter, away !
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