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BANNATYNE MS.
Command me to that sweit thing
and hir present this riche ring
And say I ly in languissing
Bot scho mak remeid
With siching soir I am bot schent
Withowt scho cum 1 Incontinent
My grit langour for to relent
And saif me fra deid
Wantounes
Or 3e tuik skaith be godis croun
I leir thair was not vp and doun
Ane tvme cunt in all this toun
Nor ten mylis abowt
Page 405 Dowt not ser bot 30 will get hir
We salbe fery for to fet hir
Bot we wald speid far the bettir
To gar our purft rowt
Sollace
Schir lat na sorrow in 30W sink
bot gif ws duccattis for to drink
And we sail nevir sleip a wink
Till it be bak or age
3e knaw weill Sr we haif na cun3ie
King
Sollace pat Salbe na sun3ie
Beir thow that bag vpoun thy lun3ie
And win weill thy wage
I pray 30W speid 30W sone agane
1 A blot on the MS. has been erased here, and cum has
pencil in a more modern hand.
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fol. 173 a
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Command me to that sweit thing
and hir present this riche ring
And say I ly in languissing
Bot scho mak remeid
With siching soir I am bot schent
Withowt scho cum 1 Incontinent
My grit langour for to relent
And saif me fra deid
Wantounes
Or 3e tuik skaith be godis croun
I leir thair was not vp and doun
Ane tvme cunt in all this toun
Nor ten mylis abowt
Page 405 Dowt not ser bot 30 will get hir
We salbe fery for to fet hir
Bot we wald speid far the bettir
To gar our purft rowt
Sollace
Schir lat na sorrow in 30W sink
bot gif ws duccattis for to drink
And we sail nevir sleip a wink
Till it be bak or age
3e knaw weill Sr we haif na cun3ie
King
Sollace pat Salbe na sun3ie
Beir thow that bag vpoun thy lun3ie
And win weill thy wage
I pray 30W speid 30W sone agane
1 A blot on the MS. has been erased here, and cum has
pencil in a more modern hand.
US
385
390
fol. 173 a
395
400
405
written in
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 3, 1928 > (137) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114606239 |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.23 |
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| Description | Written in tyme of pest, 1568, by George Bannatyne. Edited and introduced by W. Tod Ritchie. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons Ltd., 1928-34. 4 volumes. This is New Series 22-23, 26 only. Volumes 2-4 contain the text of the manuscript. |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.22-23, 26 |
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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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