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

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                                    "Þow gome of grete elde, þin heed is grayherd,
                                  
                                    Tel þou now trwly, or þou þi lyf tyne."
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                                    Þo þat loþely cherle lothely roryd,
                                  
                                    And seyd to [þe] prophete: "þei pleyd by a pryne."
                                  
                                    "Now þow lyest alowd, so help me our lord;
                                  
                                    Fulfillid of þi falshed þou shalt haue euyl fyne;
                                  
                                    Þou and þi cursid compier mow not acord.
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                                    Ȝe shul be drawe to þe deþ þis day or we dyne,
                                  
                                    So rathe.
                                  
                                    An aungel is nyhond,
                                  
                                    Takiþ þe dome of ȝour hond,
                                  
                                    Wiþ a brennyng brond,
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                                    To brittyn ȝow bathe."

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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 243
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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