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BANNATYNE MS.
Remembir man that thow hes no thing heir
bot for a tyme quhilk suddanly ourslydis
Dreid god / be blyth / w* mesur mak gud cheir
ffull mony chance in to J>is warld betydis
This warld is fals and euir wilbe so
Trest no4 J>airin thow mon depairte fairfro
finis
Thy begynnyng is bair and bittimes
W4 wrechitnes wofull away thow wendis
The deid certane the hour vnsickimes
The tyme 1 sa schort approcheing euir pe endts
quho hiest clywmis most suddanly discendis
quhat 2 is heirof bot 8 cast on chryst thy cure
And 4 stand content of euery aventur
finis
This warldfs joy is only bot fantesy
off quhilk non erdly wicht can be content
quho most hes witt leist suld in it effy
quho moist it taistis most sail him repent
quhat vailis all this riches and this rent
Sen no man watt quho sail his tresour haue
presome no4 gevin / That god hes done bot lent
W4in schort tyme the quhilk he thinkis to craue
finis
sa tyme deleted. 2 hies deleted. 3 chr deleted.
and deleted and rewritten on margin.
Remembir man that thow hes no thing heir
bot for a tyme quhilk suddanly ourslydis
Dreid god / be blyth / w* mesur mak gud cheir
ffull mony chance in to J>is warld betydis
This warld is fals and euir wilbe so
Trest no4 J>airin thow mon depairte fairfro
finis
Thy begynnyng is bair and bittimes
W4 wrechitnes wofull away thow wendis
The deid certane the hour vnsickimes
The tyme 1 sa schort approcheing euir pe endts
quho hiest clywmis most suddanly discendis
quhat 2 is heirof bot 8 cast on chryst thy cure
And 4 stand content of euery aventur
finis
This warldfs joy is only bot fantesy
off quhilk non erdly wicht can be content
quho most hes witt leist suld in it effy
quho moist it taistis most sail him repent
quhat vailis all this riches and this rent
Sen no man watt quho sail his tresour haue
presome no4 gevin / That god hes done bot lent
W4in schort tyme the quhilk he thinkis to craue
finis
sa tyme deleted. 2 hies deleted. 3 chr deleted.
and deleted and rewritten on margin.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (209) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114611879 |
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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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