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THE KINGIS QUAIR.
Quho sal be1 thare to pray for thy remyt?
No wicht, bot geve hir merci will admytt
The for gud will, that Is thy gyd and stere,
To quham for me thou pitousely requere.
196 And thus endith the fatall2 Influence,
Causit from hevyn, quhare powar Is cowzmytt
Of gouirnance, by the magnificence
Of him that hiest In the hevin sitt;
To quham we thank3 that all oure [lif] hath writt,
Quho couth 4 It red, agone syne mony a jere,
‘ Hich In the hevy«nis figure circulere.’
197 Vnto [the] Impnis5 of my maistms dere,
Gowere and chaucere, that on the steppis satt
Of rethorike, quhill thai were lyvand here,
Superlatiue as poetis laureate
In moralitee and eloquence ornate,
I recommend my buk In lynis sevin,
And eke thair saulis vn-to the bliss^ of hevin. Amen.
Explicit, &e. &c.
Quod laeobus Primus scotorum rex Illustrissimus.
1 MS. salbe. 2 MS. fotall. 3 MS. think.
4 MS. coutht. 5 MS. Inpnis ; «« st. 33, 1. 3.
THE KINGIS QUAIR.
Quho sal be1 thare to pray for thy remyt?
No wicht, bot geve hir merci will admytt
The for gud will, that Is thy gyd and stere,
To quham for me thou pitousely requere.
196 And thus endith the fatall2 Influence,
Causit from hevyn, quhare powar Is cowzmytt
Of gouirnance, by the magnificence
Of him that hiest In the hevin sitt;
To quham we thank3 that all oure [lif] hath writt,
Quho couth 4 It red, agone syne mony a jere,
‘ Hich In the hevy«nis figure circulere.’
197 Vnto [the] Impnis5 of my maistms dere,
Gowere and chaucere, that on the steppis satt
Of rethorike, quhill thai were lyvand here,
Superlatiue as poetis laureate
In moralitee and eloquence ornate,
I recommend my buk In lynis sevin,
And eke thair saulis vn-to the bliss^ of hevin. Amen.
Explicit, &e. &c.
Quod laeobus Primus scotorum rex Illustrissimus.
1 MS. salbe. 2 MS. fotall. 3 MS. think.
4 MS. coutht. 5 MS. Inpnis ; «« st. 33, 1. 3.
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| Description | By King James I. of Scotland ; edited by Walter W. Skeat. 2nd and revised edition. Edinburgh : Published for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.1 |
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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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