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BANNATYNE MS.
Schortlie I slaid and fell upoun my hipft
Doun in ane midow besyde ane busk of mynt 55
I socht my self and I was sevin jeir tynt
3it in ane mist I fand me on )>e morne
I hard ane pundler blaw ane elrich home
And syne besyde me in ane1 medow grene
I saw thre quhyte quhailis semelie to be sene 60
Thair tedderis wes of grene gerfthopperis hair
Off mige schankis baith clene quhyte and fair
Thair tedderis wer maid weill grit to graip
W4 silkin schakillis and sowlis of quhyte saip
This pundler ran fast faynand 2 for to find 65
Thir quhailis thre vpoun his gerft to pind
He had ane cloik weill maid and wounder meit
Off ganand graith of gude gray girdill feit
Page 265 Ane cleirly coit maid in courtly wyife fol. 102 a
of Emmot skynis w4 mony sketh and plyift 70
Ane pair of hoife maid of ane auld myll hopper
Ane pair of courtly schone of gude reid copper
Ane heklit hud maid of the wyld wode sege
Trest weill this pundlar tho4 him no mawis pege
he bure ane club maid mony ane carle coy 75
maid of ane auld burd of the ark of noy
he draif thir thre quhailis vnto ane lie
Ane him swelleit and bair him to the sie
And thair he levit on lempettis in hir wame
quhill harvist tyme pat hirdis draif thame hame 80
be this wes done the toder twa retumit
To suallow me / grit dule I maid and murnit
me tho41 fled and thro4 a park cowd paft
and walknit syne quhair trow 3e pat I waft
Doun in ane henslaik and gat ane fellon fall 85
and lay betuix ane picher and the wall
As wyffis cowmawdis this dreme I will conclude
fair deleted.
2 Jjame deleted.
BANNATYNE MS.
Schortlie I slaid and fell upoun my hipft
Doun in ane midow besyde ane busk of mynt 55
I socht my self and I was sevin jeir tynt
3it in ane mist I fand me on )>e morne
I hard ane pundler blaw ane elrich home
And syne besyde me in ane1 medow grene
I saw thre quhyte quhailis semelie to be sene 60
Thair tedderis wes of grene gerfthopperis hair
Off mige schankis baith clene quhyte and fair
Thair tedderis wer maid weill grit to graip
W4 silkin schakillis and sowlis of quhyte saip
This pundler ran fast faynand 2 for to find 65
Thir quhailis thre vpoun his gerft to pind
He had ane cloik weill maid and wounder meit
Off ganand graith of gude gray girdill feit
Page 265 Ane cleirly coit maid in courtly wyife fol. 102 a
of Emmot skynis w4 mony sketh and plyift 70
Ane pair of hoife maid of ane auld myll hopper
Ane pair of courtly schone of gude reid copper
Ane heklit hud maid of the wyld wode sege
Trest weill this pundlar tho4 him no mawis pege
he bure ane club maid mony ane carle coy 75
maid of ane auld burd of the ark of noy
he draif thir thre quhailis vnto ane lie
Ane him swelleit and bair him to the sie
And thair he levit on lempettis in hir wame
quhill harvist tyme pat hirdis draif thame hame 80
be this wes done the toder twa retumit
To suallow me / grit dule I maid and murnit
me tho41 fled and thro4 a park cowd paft
and walknit syne quhair trow 3e pat I waft
Doun in ane henslaik and gat ane fellon fall 85
and lay betuix ane picher and the wall
As wyffis cowmawdis this dreme I will conclude
fair deleted.
2 Jjame deleted.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (298) |
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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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