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BANNATYNE MS.
Bot wirking // And irking
ffor evir sowld remane
And being // in deing //
In Erth retume Agane
0 crewall serpent vennemus
Dispytfull and seditious
The grand of all our cair
Thow fals bound slave vnto the divill
Thow first Inventar of the evill
Off blift quhilk maid ws bair
0 diuillis slaive did thow beleif
Or how had thow sic grace
Thairby for evir Thow micht leif
Aboif in to that place
Thy grudgeing // gat scrudgeing
And swa god lute the sie
A dissavar // no cravar //
Off his reward sowld be
O dilicat dame / with Eiris bent
That harknit to that fals serpent
Thy banis we May sair ban
Without excuse thow art to blame
Thow lustly hes obtenit that name
The verry wo of man
With teiris we may bewaill & greit
That wickit tyme and tyd
Quhen adame was caussit to sleip
And thow tane of his syd
No sleiping // Bot weiping
Thy seid hes fund sensyne
Thy Eitting // and sweitting //
Is tumd to wo and pyne
Bot wirking // And irking
ffor evir sowld remane
And being // in deing //
In Erth retume Agane
0 crewall serpent vennemus
Dispytfull and seditious
The grand of all our cair
Thow fals bound slave vnto the divill
Thow first Inventar of the evill
Off blift quhilk maid ws bair
0 diuillis slaive did thow beleif
Or how had thow sic grace
Thairby for evir Thow micht leif
Aboif in to that place
Thy grudgeing // gat scrudgeing
And swa god lute the sie
A dissavar // no cravar //
Off his reward sowld be
O dilicat dame / with Eiris bent
That harknit to that fals serpent
Thy banis we May sair ban
Without excuse thow art to blame
Thow lustly hes obtenit that name
The verry wo of man
With teiris we may bewaill & greit
That wickit tyme and tyd
Quhen adame was caussit to sleip
And thow tane of his syd
No sleiping // Bot weiping
Thy seid hes fund sensyne
Thy Eitting // and sweitting //
Is tumd to wo and pyne
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (57) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114610055 |
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| Shelfmark | SCS.STES2.22 |
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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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