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

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                                    "Þorwout þe pomeri we passet vs to play,
                                  
                                    Of preiere and of penaunce was vre perpose;
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                                    Heo com with two maidens, al richeli þat day,
                                  
                                    In riche robes arayed, red as þe rose;
                                  
                                    Wyliche heo wyled hire wenches a-way,
                                  
                                    And comaunded hem kenely þe ȝates to close.
                                  
                                    Heo eode to a ȝong mon in a valey;
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                                    Þe semblaunt of Susan wolde non suppose
                                  
                                    For soþ!
                                  
                                    Be þis cause þat we say,
                                  
                                    Heo wyled hire wenches away;
                                  
                                    Þis word we witnesse for ay,
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                                    Wiþ tonge and wiþ toþ."

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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 222
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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