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BANNATYNE MS.
Be to rebellis strong as lyoun eik
Be ferce to follow )?ame qr evir thai found
Be to thy Liege men bayth soft and meik 35
Be J?air succor and help pame haill and sound
Be knaw thy cure and caus quhy thow was cround
Be besye evir / that iustice be nocht smord
Be blyith in hart pir wordis oft expound
Be bowsum ay to knaw thy god and Lord 40
ffinis q henrye stewart
This hindir ny1 neir by the hour of nyne
To bed I went As is my consuetud
I sanyt me and sone I slepit syne
Page 237 and as I thot ane lady be my1 stud fol. 88 a
plesand but peir of port and pulcritud 5
W4 cristall corpis translucent as a glaft
of alkin clething nakit and denud
Bair vnabuljeit as scho borne waft
Hir body bair wes bricht as beriall
and thru4 pe samyn as semit to my sicht 10
I mycht weill ressones on the wall
als weill as mony lampis had bene licht
I saw scho wes so wondirfull a wicht
I askit of hir name for cherite
debonerly scho anserit me J>at bricht 15
And said thay call me lady varite
Quhilk fra thir bowndis lang hes 2 beneist bene
Nor heir my4 haif no rest nor residence
quhairthrow my freindts ar confundit clene
off the fell 8 falsheid throw thy offence 20
1 syd deleted. 2 hes deleted, hes interlined. * fas deleted.
BANNATYNE MS.
Be to rebellis strong as lyoun eik
Be ferce to follow )?ame qr evir thai found
Be to thy Liege men bayth soft and meik 35
Be J?air succor and help pame haill and sound
Be knaw thy cure and caus quhy thow was cround
Be besye evir / that iustice be nocht smord
Be blyith in hart pir wordis oft expound
Be bowsum ay to knaw thy god and Lord 40
ffinis q henrye stewart
This hindir ny1 neir by the hour of nyne
To bed I went As is my consuetud
I sanyt me and sone I slepit syne
Page 237 and as I thot ane lady be my1 stud fol. 88 a
plesand but peir of port and pulcritud 5
W4 cristall corpis translucent as a glaft
of alkin clething nakit and denud
Bair vnabuljeit as scho borne waft
Hir body bair wes bricht as beriall
and thru4 pe samyn as semit to my sicht 10
I mycht weill ressones on the wall
als weill as mony lampis had bene licht
I saw scho wes so wondirfull a wicht
I askit of hir name for cherite
debonerly scho anserit me J>at bricht 15
And said thay call me lady varite
Quhilk fra thir bowndis lang hes 2 beneist bene
Nor heir my4 haif no rest nor residence
quhairthrow my freindts ar confundit clene
off the fell 8 falsheid throw thy offence 20
1 syd deleted. 2 hes deleted, hes interlined. * fas deleted.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (256) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114612443 |
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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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