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Page 306 Plvxn weill the grund quhat evir 30 doo
Haillon the sukscheit and the blind
Scho will tak in at cap and koo
W^wt scho ballast be behind
Na peddens pak scho will ressaif
Althocht hir travell scho sowld tyne
Na coukcald karle nor carllingis 1 pet
that dois thair come and caitell cryne
Bot quhair scho findts a fallow fyne
He wilbe frawcht fre for a souft
Scho kareis nocht2 bot men & wyne
3 to loh" And bul3oun to pe coun3e houfe
carmichaell
ffor merchandmen I may half mony
Bot nane sic as I wald desjnre
And I am layth to mell wt ony
To leif my mater in the myre
That man that wirkfs best for his hyre
Syne he salbe my mariner
Bot nycht & day mon he nocht tyre
That sailis my bony ballinger
ffor ankerhald nane can be fund
I pray 30W cast the leidlyne owt
And gif 3e can nocht get the grund
Steir be the compas and keip hir rowt
Syne treveift still and lay a bowt
And gar hir top twiche wind and waw
Quhair anker dryvis thair is na dowt
Thir tripand tyddis may tyne ws aw
Now is my pretty pynnege reddy
Abydand on sum merchand blok
1 r interlined. 2 hing deleted. 3 In later hand.
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Page 306 Plvxn weill the grund quhat evir 30 doo
Haillon the sukscheit and the blind
Scho will tak in at cap and koo
W^wt scho ballast be behind
Na peddens pak scho will ressaif
Althocht hir travell scho sowld tyne
Na coukcald karle nor carllingis 1 pet
that dois thair come and caitell cryne
Bot quhair scho findts a fallow fyne
He wilbe frawcht fre for a souft
Scho kareis nocht2 bot men & wyne
3 to loh" And bul3oun to pe coun3e houfe
carmichaell
ffor merchandmen I may half mony
Bot nane sic as I wald desjnre
And I am layth to mell wt ony
To leif my mater in the myre
That man that wirkfs best for his hyre
Syne he salbe my mariner
Bot nycht & day mon he nocht tyre
That sailis my bony ballinger
ffor ankerhald nane can be fund
I pray 30W cast the leidlyne owt
And gif 3e can nocht get the grund
Steir be the compas and keip hir rowt
Syne treveift still and lay a bowt
And gar hir top twiche wind and waw
Quhair anker dryvis thair is na dowt
Thir tripand tyddis may tyne ws aw
Now is my pretty pynnege reddy
Abydand on sum merchand blok
1 r interlined. 2 hing deleted. 3 In later hand.
fol. 123 £
30
35
40
45
50
55
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (356) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114613643 |
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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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