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

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                                    He had a wyf hight Susanne, sotil and sage;
                                  
                                    She was Elchies doghtir, eldest and ayr,
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                                    Lovely and lilys white, of þat lynage,
                                  
                                    Of all faceon and food freely and fair.
                                  
                                    . . . . .
                                  
                                    Þe maundement of Moyses þes markid to þat lair,
                                  
                                    To þe mount Synay þat went in message,
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                                    Þer þe trinite bytoke of tables a payr
                                  
                                    To rede.
                                  
                                    Thus þei lernyd her þe lawe,
                                  
                                    Clere Clergy to knawe;
                                  
                                    To God stood her grete awe,
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                                    That wlonkest in wede.

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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 193
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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