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3our alliterative als weill amang awin baith bruther Chaucer Coilzear common Complaynt Complaynt of Scotlande counsale culd deid dois Douglas doun euery French furth greit gret gude haif haill haith hald Harl haue heir honour houris Introd keip king kirk knycht leif lord lordis Lyndsay M.Sc maid mair maist maner Middle Scots mony mycht mynd nane nocht passim patrik PAUPER pepill phrase poem quene quha quhair quhat quhen quhilk quod reads rhyme richt Ruthven rycht S. T. S. edition sall samyn sanct sche scho Scotland Scots Scottish sense seruice sone sould suld syne thair thame thare thay ther thing thir thocht thou thow toung tyll tyme vitht vnder vnto vpoun vther vthir wald warld weill word wyff wynis þai þair þame þan þat þis ΙΟ
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Page 34 - O blissit be the hour That thow wes chosin to be our principall ; Welcome to be our princes of honour, Our perle, our plesans and our paramour, 180 Our peax, our play, our plane felicite: Chryst the conserf frome all adversite.
Page 32 - Concedring him so able for the weiris, A radius croun of rubeis scho him gaif, And said, " In feild go furth, and fend the laif...
Page 178 - And everie ilk jeir scho brocht vs hame ane foill. Wee had thrie ky that was baith fat and fair, Nane tydier into the toun of Air. My father was sa waik of blude and bane, That he deit, quhairfoir my mother maid great maine.
Page 228 - ... our awin ingynis, quhair as they then did it onelie be thair awin ingynis, but help of any vther. Thairfore, quhat I speik of Poesie now, I speik of it as being come to mannis age and perfectioun, quhair as then it was bot in the infancie and chyldheid.
Page 181 - Ye sail have full remissioun, With help of buiks and bellis. Heir is ane relict, lang and braid, Of Fine Macoull * the richt chaft blaid ', With teith and al togidder : 1 array.
Page 229 - Nature, and will mak yow within short space weary of the haill airt : quhair as, gif Nature be cheif, and bent to it, reulis will be ane help and staff to Nature.
Page 30 - Befoir hir hienes suld annone compeir, And every flour of vertew, most and leist, And every herb be feild fer and neir, As thay had wont in May fro yeir to yeir 75 To hir thair makar to mak obediens, Full law inclynnand with all dew reverens.
Page 153 - Ther vas viij scheiphyrdis, and ilk ane of them hed ane syndry instrament to play to the laif. the fyrst hed aue drone bag pipe, the nyxt hed ane pipe maid of ane bleddir and of ane reid, the thrid playit on ane trump, the feyrd on ane corne pipe, the fyft playit on ane pipe maid of ane gait home, the sext playt on ane recordar1, the seuint plait on ane fiddil, and the last plait on ane quhissil.
Page lvi - MICHEL. A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language. With the view of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland.
Page 178 - Meg my wife did murne both evin and morow Till at the last scho deit for verie sorow: And quhen the Vickar hard tell my wyfe was dead, The thrid Cow he cleikit be the head.