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BANNATYNE MS. 331
Than tak a bowstring and draw it doun betwene
thame
And gif it stickis It hes ane evill apperance
Catitois clerkis quhois college ^e frequentit
quhen 30 wor wanfleris of hir wantoun band 50
Now 30 ar lamit fra labour I lamewtit
3our pistolis twmit and baksprent lyk a wand
snapwark adew fra dagmera dow1 no* stand
And worft than that 36 want 3or morsing powder
Than cuwis conscience w* crukit staf in hand 55
Greitand for byganis bowand bak and schowder
Remembir first 3our former qualitie
And wrak na virgems w* 3or wilfull weir
Gif 3e will no* Than or regalitie
hes power planely To replege thame heir 60
Page 309 Mycht thay win to the girth I tak no feir fol. 125 a
Doun by the cawnocroce I pray 30W send thame
quhair patrik bawnatyne hes promeist to compeir
W* lawfull ressonis / reddy to defend thame
On cauJfe thair is thay can no* be convict 65
3e had na power fra the sone wes sett
The provest gaif na power to gilbert dick
The speciall thing that sowld no* bene for3ett
Thay war nocht theivis Nor 3it condempt in dett
Nor ridhand tane quhilk was na caufc 30 knaw 70
Bot 30 latt rukis and ravynis rin throw the nett
And saikles dowis maids subiect to ]?e law
3our parciall luge we may declyne him to
bot sett me doun the persons pennycuke
Or sanderis guthrie lat see quhat he can do 75
he ke#mis the caice and keipis 3our awin court buke
1 may deleted, and dow interlined.
Than tak a bowstring and draw it doun betwene
thame
And gif it stickis It hes ane evill apperance
Catitois clerkis quhois college ^e frequentit
quhen 30 wor wanfleris of hir wantoun band 50
Now 30 ar lamit fra labour I lamewtit
3our pistolis twmit and baksprent lyk a wand
snapwark adew fra dagmera dow1 no* stand
And worft than that 36 want 3or morsing powder
Than cuwis conscience w* crukit staf in hand 55
Greitand for byganis bowand bak and schowder
Remembir first 3our former qualitie
And wrak na virgems w* 3or wilfull weir
Gif 3e will no* Than or regalitie
hes power planely To replege thame heir 60
Page 309 Mycht thay win to the girth I tak no feir fol. 125 a
Doun by the cawnocroce I pray 30W send thame
quhair patrik bawnatyne hes promeist to compeir
W* lawfull ressonis / reddy to defend thame
On cauJfe thair is thay can no* be convict 65
3e had na power fra the sone wes sett
The provest gaif na power to gilbert dick
The speciall thing that sowld no* bene for3ett
Thay war nocht theivis Nor 3it condempt in dett
Nor ridhand tane quhilk was na caufc 30 knaw 70
Bot 30 latt rukis and ravynis rin throw the nett
And saikles dowis maids subiect to ]?e law
3our parciall luge we may declyne him to
bot sett me doun the persons pennycuke
Or sanderis guthrie lat see quhat he can do 75
he ke#mis the caice and keipis 3our awin court buke
1 may deleted, and dow interlined.
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Bannatyne manuscript > Volume 2, 1928 > (359) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/114613679 |
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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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