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BANNATYNE MS.
Page 91
Seneca
It is better to haif the sawle gamissid w‘ vertew
Than the body deckid w* purple / gold / or blew
ffinis
The first saline beatus vir foi. 16 a
Happie is hie / hes hald him fre /
ffrome folkis of defame
Alwayis to fie / Iniquitfe /
And sait of syn and schame
Bot hes his will / conforme vntill 5
The lordis command and law
Thame to fulfill / w* purpoift still /
Boith day and nicht to knaw
He sail haif brute / as tre on rute /
Endlang the rever plantit 10
To burge and schute / and sail gif frutt
In tyme as god hes grantit.
Quhois leif and blaid / Sail nevir faid /
Bot fragrant ay be 1 flureist
Quhois workis on braid / Sail evir spraid 15
And richtously be nvreist .
Sail non be so / oS nochtis no /
Quhilk bene of cursit bind 2
Bot thay sail go / lyk dust and stro
Bene vaneist w1 the wind 20
2 Sic.
be repeated and deleted.
BANNATYNE MS.
Page 91
Seneca
It is better to haif the sawle gamissid w‘ vertew
Than the body deckid w* purple / gold / or blew
ffinis
The first saline beatus vir foi. 16 a
Happie is hie / hes hald him fre /
ffrome folkis of defame
Alwayis to fie / Iniquitfe /
And sait of syn and schame
Bot hes his will / conforme vntill 5
The lordis command and law
Thame to fulfill / w* purpoift still /
Boith day and nicht to knaw
He sail haif brute / as tre on rute /
Endlang the rever plantit 10
To burge and schute / and sail gif frutt
In tyme as god hes grantit.
Quhois leif and blaid / Sail nevir faid /
Bot fragrant ay be 1 flureist
Quhois workis on braid / Sail evir spraid 15
And richtously be nvreist .
Sail non be so / oS nochtis no /
Quhilk bene of cursit bind 2
Bot thay sail go / lyk dust and stro
Bene vaneist w1 the wind 20
2 Sic.
be repeated and deleted.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (64) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114610139 |
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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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