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327
Page 305 ffollowis the ballat maid vpoun fol. 123 a
Margret flemmg callit the flemyng bark
In Edinbur*
I haif a littill flemmg berge
Off clenkett work bot scho is wicht
Quhat pylett takis my schip in chairge
Mon hald hir Clynlie trym & ticht
Se that hir hatchis be handlit richt 5
W* steirburd baburd luf & lie
scho will sale all the wintir nicht
And nevir tak a tel3evie
With evin keill befoir the wind
Scho is richt fairdy w* a saill 10
Bot at ane lufe scho lyis behind
Gar heift hir quhill hir howbandis skaill
Draw weill the takill to hir taill
Scho will no1 mifc to lay 3or mast
To pomp als oft as 30 may Haill 15
3eill nevir hald hir watterfast
To calfet hir oft can do non ill
And talloun quhair the find mark flowis
Bot gif scho lekkis gett men of sklil
To stop hir hoilis laich in pe howife 20
ffor fait of hemp Tak hary towis
Wl stane ballest w^wttin vder
In monelefc nichtis It is na mowis
Except ane stowt man steir hir ruder
A fair vesschell abone pe watter 25
And is bot laitly reikit to
Quhairto till deif 30W w* tome clatter
Ar nane sic in the floit as scho
327
Page 305 ffollowis the ballat maid vpoun fol. 123 a
Margret flemmg callit the flemyng bark
In Edinbur*
I haif a littill flemmg berge
Off clenkett work bot scho is wicht
Quhat pylett takis my schip in chairge
Mon hald hir Clynlie trym & ticht
Se that hir hatchis be handlit richt 5
W* steirburd baburd luf & lie
scho will sale all the wintir nicht
And nevir tak a tel3evie
With evin keill befoir the wind
Scho is richt fairdy w* a saill 10
Bot at ane lufe scho lyis behind
Gar heift hir quhill hir howbandis skaill
Draw weill the takill to hir taill
Scho will no1 mifc to lay 3or mast
To pomp als oft as 30 may Haill 15
3eill nevir hald hir watterfast
To calfet hir oft can do non ill
And talloun quhair the find mark flowis
Bot gif scho lekkis gett men of sklil
To stop hir hoilis laich in pe howife 20
ffor fait of hemp Tak hary towis
Wl stane ballest w^wttin vder
In monelefc nichtis It is na mowis
Except ane stowt man steir hir ruder
A fair vesschell abone pe watter 25
And is bot laitly reikit to
Quhairto till deif 30W w* tome clatter
Ar nane sic in the floit as scho
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (355) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114613631 |
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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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