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BANNATYNE MS.
305
he had ane littill rod leg
and it wes cant as ony cleg
It wes wynd in ane wyndinscheit
baythe the handis and the feit
Suppoift this gaist wes littill
3it it stall godis quhittill
It stall fra peteoufo abrahane 1
ane quhorle and ane quhuw quhame
It stall fra J>e carle of pe mune
ane pair of auld ym schone
It raw to pencaitlane
and wirreit ane auld chaplane
This littill gaste did na mair ill
Bot clok lyk a come myll
Page 289 And it wald play and hop
abowt the held ane stre strop
And it wald sing and it wald dance
Oure fute and orliance
quha commit the littill gaste sa 3e
Nane bot the littill specie fie
That w* hir wit and Ingyne
gart the gaist leif agane
And syne mareid the gaist the fie
And cround him kyng of kandelie
And thay gat thame betwene
Orpheus king and elpha quene
To reid quha will this gentill geist
3e hard it no1 at cokilbys feist
Explicit
1 Sic.
70
75
80
fol. 115 a
85
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305
he had ane littill rod leg
and it wes cant as ony cleg
It wes wynd in ane wyndinscheit
baythe the handis and the feit
Suppoift this gaist wes littill
3it it stall godis quhittill
It stall fra peteoufo abrahane 1
ane quhorle and ane quhuw quhame
It stall fra J>e carle of pe mune
ane pair of auld ym schone
It raw to pencaitlane
and wirreit ane auld chaplane
This littill gaste did na mair ill
Bot clok lyk a come myll
Page 289 And it wald play and hop
abowt the held ane stre strop
And it wald sing and it wald dance
Oure fute and orliance
quha commit the littill gaste sa 3e
Nane bot the littill specie fie
That w* hir wit and Ingyne
gart the gaist leif agane
And syne mareid the gaist the fie
And cround him kyng of kandelie
And thay gat thame betwene
Orpheus king and elpha quene
To reid quha will this gentill geist
3e hard it no1 at cokilbys feist
Explicit
1 Sic.
70
75
80
fol. 115 a
85
90
95
VOL. II.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (333) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114613367 |
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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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