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Spair me gud lord and mak me clene
ffor my lyfedayis thay be richt nocht
Quhat is a man tho* he be kene
Bot waistis away as dois a thocht
Think lord of erd thow hes ws wrocht
And in to clay that turne mon we
Quhen ony baill Is for ws brocht
Than parce michi domine
A man is of a woman bom
His lyf is bot a littill thraw
his wretchitnes is him befome
quhill he hs weill he standis no aw
In his maist welth he can not knaw
Nowdir him self nor ^it god hie
Quhen we ar deid and lyis full law
Than parce michi domine
Page 104 My sawll is irkit of my lyfe
Thruch wretschitnes quhilkts me within
ffor labor sorrow sturt and stryif
Dreid of deid and dalie syn
The feind he wetis his pray to win
Ws till abandoun evir wald hie
quhen deid his devoir sal begyn
Than parce mihi domine
Sail paipis bischopis and clerkis sterf
Sail thay half hell for syraiis saik
3e thay sail half as thay deserf
for thay a full hard compt sail mak
Because the kirlris gudis thay tak
Syne dois pairfoir nocht thair dewtie
Except sic synnis thay sair forsaik
Thaw parce michi domine
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53
Spair me gud lord and mak me clene
ffor my lyfedayis thay be richt nocht
Quhat is a man tho* he be kene
Bot waistis away as dois a thocht
Think lord of erd thow hes ws wrocht
And in to clay that turne mon we
Quhen ony baill Is for ws brocht
Than parce michi domine
A man is of a woman bom
His lyf is bot a littill thraw
his wretchitnes is him befome
quhill he hs weill he standis no aw
In his maist welth he can not knaw
Nowdir him self nor ^it god hie
Quhen we ar deid and lyis full law
Than parce michi domine
Page 104 My sawll is irkit of my lyfe
Thruch wretschitnes quhilkts me within
ffor labor sorrow sturt and stryif
Dreid of deid and dalie syn
The feind he wetis his pray to win
Ws till abandoun evir wald hie
quhen deid his devoir sal begyn
Than parce mihi domine
Sail paipis bischopis and clerkis sterf
Sail thay half hell for syraiis saik
3e thay sail half as thay deserf
for thay a full hard compt sail mak
Because the kirlris gudis thay tak
Syne dois pairfoir nocht thair dewtie
Except sic synnis thay sair forsaik
Thaw parce michi domine
10
15
fol. 22 3
20
25
30
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (79) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114610319 |
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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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