Scottish alliterative poems in riming stanzas. Edited with introd., appendix, notes, and glossary. [n.p.]Scottish Text Society, 1897.

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                                    Whon þeos parlous prestes perceyued hir play,
                                  
                                    Þo þouht þe wrecches to biwile þat worli in wone;
                                  
                                    Heore wittes wel weiwordes þei wrechen a-wai,
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                                    And turned fro his teching, þat teelde is in trone.
                                  
                                    For siht of heore souerayn, soþli to say,
                                  
                                    Heore hore hedes fro heuen þei hid vpon one;
                                  
                                    Þei cauht for heore couetise þe cursyng of Kai,
                                  
                                    For rihtwis jugement recordet þei none,
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                                    Þei two.
                                  
                                    Eueri day by day
                                  
                                    In þe pomeri þei play,
                                  
                                    Whiles þei miht Susan assay,
                                  
                                    To worchen hire wo.

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Title: Scottish alliterative poems in riming stanzas. Edited with introd., appendix, notes, and glossary. [n.p.]Scottish Text Society, 1897.
Author: Amours, François Joseph, 1841-1910.
Canvas: Page 198
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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