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BANNATYNE MS.
Sr sen of mew ar diuerfi sortis
and diuerft pastymes and disportis
According ar for ilk degre
All thy trew lieges the exortis
To knaw thy ryall maiestie 5
And mark in thy memoriall
Thy predecessCis parentall
quhais fructouft fatis and deidfs he
makt's Tpair fame ^erpetuall
Throw potent princely matie 10
Sen throw pe erd in lenth and breid
Thow art pe most illustir leid
and most preclair of progenie
Think JwVvpoun and caufe thy deid
appreif thy princely mtie / 15
And play no1 bot at honest playis
as princis vsit afoir thy dayis
balking hunting and archery
lusting And cheift fat none gane sayis
Vnto pi princely maiestie 20
Page 254 To play w* dyce nor cairtfs accordfs fol. 96 6
to the bot w* thy noble lord/s
or w1 the quene thy moder fre
To play w* pure mew disaccordis
and man's thy ryall mat!e 25
Bot gif thow think quhew tho begywnis
To gif agane all fat thow wywnis
To fame abowt fat serwis the
To hald sic wywniwg Schame and syw is
And far fra princely mtie /
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BANNATYNE MS.
Sr sen of mew ar diuerfi sortis
and diuerft pastymes and disportis
According ar for ilk degre
All thy trew lieges the exortis
To knaw thy ryall maiestie 5
And mark in thy memoriall
Thy predecessCis parentall
quhais fructouft fatis and deidfs he
makt's Tpair fame ^erpetuall
Throw potent princely matie 10
Sen throw pe erd in lenth and breid
Thow art pe most illustir leid
and most preclair of progenie
Think JwVvpoun and caufe thy deid
appreif thy princely mtie / 15
And play no1 bot at honest playis
as princis vsit afoir thy dayis
balking hunting and archery
lusting And cheift fat none gane sayis
Vnto pi princely maiestie 20
Page 254 To play w* dyce nor cairtfs accordfs fol. 96 6
to the bot w* thy noble lord/s
or w1 the quene thy moder fre
To play w* pure mew disaccordis
and man's thy ryall mat!e 25
Bot gif thow think quhew tho begywnis
To gif agane all fat thow wywnis
To fame abowt fat serwis the
To hald sic wywniwg Schame and syw is
And far fra princely mtie /
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (284) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114612779 |
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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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