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

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                                    And þus þiis perlous prestes persayuyd hire playe,
                                  
                                    And thowht to begyle þat wrthi in wone;
                                  
                                    Þer wyttes a-wytherworth þei writhen a-way,
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                                    And turnes fro his teching þat weldes þe trone.
                                  
                                    For suche a soueren lorde, þe sothe for to say,
                                  
                                    Þer hore heuedys fro heuen þei hyd apon none,
                                  
                                    And caut for þer couetyse þe cursyng of Cayme,
                                  
                                    Of him þat is myhtyest and souerayn allone,
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                                    Þei two.
                                  
                                    Iche day be þe day,
                                  
                                    In þe pomer þei play,
                                  
                                    If þei myht Soseyn assay,
                                  
                                    To wyrthin 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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