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

XVI.

                                    Nou in Susan is sale, sengeliche arayed,
                                  
                                    In a selken schert, with scholdres wel schene.
                                  
                                    Þo ros vp with rancour þe renkes reneyed,
                                  
                                    Þis comeliche accused with wordes wel kene;
                                  
                                    Homeliche on hire hed heore hondes þei leyed,
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                                    And heo wept for wo, no wonder, I wene.
                                  
                                    "We schul presenten þis pleint, hou þou euer be paied,
                                  
                                    And say sadlyche þe soþe, riht as we haue sene,
                                  
                                    O sake."
                                  
                                    Þus wiþ cauteles qwaynt,
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                                    Preostes presented þis playnt;
                                  
                                    Ȝit schal trouþe hem ataynt,
                                  
                                    I dar vndurtake.

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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 220
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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