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

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                                    Than Susan þe sorowful seyd up on hight,
                                  
                                    Helt up her hondis, byheld to hevyn:
                                  
                                    "Þou maker of myddil erþe, þat moost art of myght,
                                  
                                    Boþe þe sonne and þe see þat sit up a sevyn,
                                  
                                    Al my werkis þou woost, þe wrong and þe right;
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                                    Hit is nedeful now þi names to nevene.
                                  
                                    Seþ y am dolefully dampnyd, and to deþ dight,
                                  
                                    Lord, hertly take, and lestyn my stevene
                                  
                                    So free!
                                  
                                    Seþ þou may not be sene
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                                    Wiþ no bodily eyene,
                                  
                                    Þou wost wele y am clene,
                                  
                                    Have mercy on me."

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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 231
Publication: New York,: Johnson Reprint Corp.; [1966]
Subject terms: Scottish poetry

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