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BANNATYNE MS.
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Beceith the devill thair guttis and gammis
Thair toung thair teith thair handi's thair fei^
And all thair body haill compleit 20
That brak his 3aird and stall his frutt
And raif his erbis vp be J>e rute
his quheit his aitis his peift his beir
In stowk or stak to do him deir
In bame in houft in kill or mill 25
Except it had bene his awin will
his wow his lamb his cheis his stirk
Or ony teyndis of haly kirk
And all pat lattis vnkend or knawin
The vicar to dispone his awin 30
Kirland hay or gerft to awaill
Be thair support Bed or counsall
Now cursit and wareit be pair werd
Quhill thay be levand on this Erd
Hungir sturt and tribulatioun 35
And nevir to be wtout vexatioun
of vengance sorrow sturt and 1 Cair
graceleft Thriftles and threid bair
All tymes in pair legasie
Eyre sword watter and woddie 40
Or ane of thir Infirmeteis
Off warldly scherp Aduerseteis fol. 105 a
Pouertie Pestilence or poplecy
Dum deif or Edroposy
Maigram madneft or missilry 45
Appostrum or pe perlocy
ffluxis hyvis or huttit ill
hoist heidwark or fawin ill
Raid kanker feistir or feveris
Brukis bylis blobbis and bleistiris 50
Emeroidese or the sair halfc
Stryf deleUd.
BANNATYNE MS.
Page 271
Beceith the devill thair guttis and gammis
Thair toung thair teith thair handi's thair fei^
And all thair body haill compleit 20
That brak his 3aird and stall his frutt
And raif his erbis vp be J>e rute
his quheit his aitis his peift his beir
In stowk or stak to do him deir
In bame in houft in kill or mill 25
Except it had bene his awin will
his wow his lamb his cheis his stirk
Or ony teyndis of haly kirk
And all pat lattis vnkend or knawin
The vicar to dispone his awin 30
Kirland hay or gerft to awaill
Be thair support Bed or counsall
Now cursit and wareit be pair werd
Quhill thay be levand on this Erd
Hungir sturt and tribulatioun 35
And nevir to be wtout vexatioun
of vengance sorrow sturt and 1 Cair
graceleft Thriftles and threid bair
All tymes in pair legasie
Eyre sword watter and woddie 40
Or ane of thir Infirmeteis
Off warldly scherp Aduerseteis fol. 105 a
Pouertie Pestilence or poplecy
Dum deif or Edroposy
Maigram madneft or missilry 45
Appostrum or pe perlocy
ffluxis hyvis or huttit ill
hoist heidwark or fawin ill
Raid kanker feistir or feveris
Brukis bylis blobbis and bleistiris 50
Emeroidese or the sair halfc
Stryf deleUd.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (306) |
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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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