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The Annunciation Forcy as deith is likand lufe, Throuch quhome al bittir suet is; No thing is hard, as writ can pruf, Till him in lufe that letis; Luf us fra barret betis. Quhen fra the hevinly sete abufe In message Gabriell couth muf, And with myld Mary metis, And said, "God wele the gretis; In the He will tak rest and rufe, But hurt of syne or yit reprufe; In Him sett thi decret is." This message mervale gert that myld, 1 And silence held but soundis, As weill aferit a maid infild. The angell it expoundis, How that hir wame but woundis Consave it suld, fra syne exild; And quhen this carpin wes compilit, Brichtnes fra bufe aboundis. Thane fell that gay to groundis, Of Goddis grace na thing begild; Wox in hir chaumer chaist with child, With Crist our kyng that cround is. Thir tithingis tauld, the messinger Till hevin agane he glidis; That princes pure withoutyn peir Full plesandly applid is, And blith with barne abidis. O worthy wirschip singuler, To be moder and madyn meir, As Cristin faith confidis; That borne was of hir sidis Our makar, Goddis sone so deir, Quhilk erd, wattir, and hevinnis cleir Throw grace and virtu gidis. The miraclis ar mekle and meit Fra luffis ryver rynnis; The low of luf haldand the hete Unbrynt full blithlie birnis; Quhen Gabriell beginnis With mouth that gudely may to grete, The wand of Aarone, dry but wete, To burioun nocht blynnis; The flesch all donk within is, Upon the erd na drop couth fleit; Sa was that may maid moder suete And sakeles of all synnis. Hir mervalus haill madinhede God in hir bosum bracis, And Hir divinité fra dreid Hir kepit in all casis. The hie God of His gracis Him self dispisit, us to speid, And dowtit nocht to dee on deid; He panit for our peacis, And with His blude us bacis, Bot quhen He ras up, as we rede, The cherité of His Godhede Was plane in every placis. O lady lele and lusumest, Thy face moist fair and schene is; O blosum blith and bowsumest, Fra carnale cryme that clene is; This prayer fra my splene is, That all my werkis wikkitest Thow put away and mak me chaist Fra Termigant that teyn is, And fra his cluke that kene is, And syne till hevin my saule thou haist, Quhair thi makar, of michtis mast, Is kyng, and thow thair quene is. The Abbey Walk Allone as I went up and doun, In ane abbay wes fair to se, Thinkand quhat consolatioun Wes best in to adversitie, On cais I kest on syd myne e And saw this writtin upoun a wall: "Off quhat estait, man, that thow be, Obey and thank thi God off all. "Thy kindome and thy grit empyre, Thy ryeltie nor rich array, Sall nocht indure at thi desyre, Bot as the wind will wend away; Thy gold and all thi gudis gay, Quhen fortoun list, will fra the fall: Sen thow sic sampillis seyis ilk day, Obey and thank thi God of all. "Job was moist riche, in writ we find, Thobe moist full of cheretie - Job wox peur and Thoby blynd, Baith temptit with adversitie: Sen blindnes wes infirmitie, And povertie was naturall, Thairfoir in patience baith he and he Obeid and thankit God of all. "Thocht thow be blind or haif ane halt, Or in thy face deformit ill, Sa it cum nocht throw thy defalt, Na man sowld the repreif by skill: Blame nocht thy lord, sa is his will, Spur nocht thy fute aganis the wall, Bot with meik hairt and prayar still Obey and thank thy God of all. "God of His justice mon correct, And of His mercy petie haif; He is ane juge to nane suspect, To puneis synffull man and saif: Thocht thow be lord attouir the laif, And eftirwart maid bund and thrall, Ane peure begger with skrip and staif, Obey and thank thy God of all. "This changeing and grit variance Of erdly staitis up and doun Is nocht throw casualtie and chance, As sum men sayis, withowt ressoun, Bot be the grit provisioun Of God aboif that rewill the sall: Thairfoir evir thow mak the boun To obey and thank thy God of all. "In welth be meik, heiche not thy self, Be glaid in wilfull povertie; Thy power and thy warldlie pelf Is nocht bot verry vanitie: Remembir him that deit on tre For thy saik taistit bittir gall, Quha hyis law and lawis he - 2 Obey and thank thy God of all." The Bludy Serk This hindir yeir I hard be tald Thair was a worthy king; Dukis, erlis, and barronis bald He had at his bidding; The lord was anceane and ald And sexty yeiris cowth ring, He had a dochter fair to fald, A lusty lady ying. Off all fairheid scho bur the flour, And eik hir faderis air, Off lusty laitis and he honour, Meik bot and debonair; Scho wynnit in a bigly bour, On fold wes none so fair, Princis luvit hir paramour In cuntreis our-allquhair. Thair dwelt alyt besyde the king A fowll gyane of ane; Stollin he hes the lady ying, Away with hir is gane, And kest hir in his dungering Quhair licht scho micht se nane; Hungir and cauld and grit thristing Scho fand in to hir wane. He wes the laithliest on to luk That on the grund mycht gang, His nailis wes lyk ane hellis cruk, Thairwith fyve quarteris lang; Thair wes nane that he ovrtuk, In rycht or yit in wrang, Bot all in schondir he thame schuke, The gyane wes so strang. He held the lady day and nycht Within his deip dungeoun, He wald nocht gif of hir a sicht For gold nor yit ransoun, Bot gife the king mycht get a knycht To fecht with his persoun, To fecht with him both day and nycht Quhill ane wer dungin doun. The king gart seik baith fer and neir, Beth be se and land, Off ony knycht gife he micht heir Wald fecht with that gyand; A worthy prince that had no peir Hes tane the deid on hand, For the luve of the lady cleir, And held full trew cunnand. That prince come prowdly to the toun, Of that gyane to heir, And fawcht with him his awin persoun And tuke him presoneir, And kest him in his awin dungeoun Allane withouttin feir, With hungir, cauld, and confusioun, As full weill worthy weir. Syne brak the bour, had hame the bricht 3 Unto hir fadir deir; Sa evill wondit was the knycht That he behuvit to de; Unlusum was his likame dicht, His sark was all bludy; In all the warld was thair a wicht So peteous for to sy? The lady murnyt and maid grit mone With all hir mekle micht, "I luvit nevir lufe bot one That dulfully now is dicht. God sen my lyfe wer fra me tone Or I had sene yone sicht, Or ellis in begging evir to gone Furth with yone curtas knycht!" He said, "Fair lady, now mone I de, Trestly ye me trow; Tak ye my sark that is bludy, And hing it forrow yow; First think on it and syne on me Quhen men cumis yow to wow." The lady said, "Be Mary fre, Thairto I mak a wow!" Quhen that scho lukit to the serk Scho thocht on the persoun, And prayit for him with all hir harte That lowsd hir of bandoun, Quhair scho was wont to sit full merk In that deip dungeoun; And evir quhill scho wes in quert That was hir a lessoun. Sa weill the lady luvit the knycht That no man wald scho tak; Sa suld we do our God of micht That did all for us mak, Quhilk fullely to deid wes dicht For sinfull manis saik; Sa suld we do both day and nycht, With prayaris to him mak. Moralitas This king is lyk the Trinitie, Baith in hevin and heir, The manis saule to the lady, The gyane to Lucefeir, The knycht to Chryst that deit on tre And coft our synnis deir, The pit to hell with panis fell, The syn to the woweir. The lady was wowd, bot scho said nay With men that wald hir wed; Sa suld we wryth all syn away, That in our breist is bred. I pray to Jesu Chryst verrey, For us His blud that bled, To be our help on domysday Quhair lawis ar straitly led. The saule is Godis dochtir deir, And eik his handewerk, That was betrasit with Lucifeir Quha sittis in hell full merk, Borrowit with Chrystis angell cleir; Hend men, will ye nocht herk? For His lufe that bocht us deir, Think on the bludy serk. The Garmont of Gud Ladeis Wald my gud lady lufe me best And wirk eftir my will, I suld ane garmond gudliest Gar mak hir body til. Off he honour suld be hir hud, Upoun hir heid to weir, Garneist with govirnance so gud, Na demyng suld hir deir. Hir sark suld be hir body nixt Of chestetie so quhyt, With schame and dreid togidder mixt The same suld be perfyt. Hir kirtill suld be of clene constance, Lasit with lesum lufe, The mailyeis of continwance, For nevir to remufe. Hir gown suld be of gudlines, Weill ribband with renowne, Purfillit with plesour in ilk place, Furrit with fyne fassoun. Hir belt suld be of benignitie Abowt hir middill meit, Hir mantill of humilitie To tholl bayth wind and weit. Hir hat suld be of fair having, And hir tepat of trewth, Hir patelet of gud pansing Hir hals ribbane of rewth. Hir slevis suld be of esperance To keip hir fra dispair, Hir gluvis of gud govirnance To hyd hir fynyearis fair. Hir schone suld be of sickernes In syne that scho nocht slyd, Hir hois of honestie, I ges, I suld for hir provyd. Wald scho put on this garmond gay, I durst sweir by my seill That scho woir nevir grene nor gray That set hir half so weill. Against Hasty Credence Fals titlaris now growis up full rank, Nocht ympit in the stok of cheretie, Howping at thair lord to gett grit thank Thay haif no dreid on thair nybouris to lie; Than sowld ane lord awyse him weill I se Quhen ony taill is brocht to his presence Gif it be groundit in to veretie, Or he thairto gif haistely creddence. Ane worthy lord sowld wey ane taill wyslie, The tailltellar, and quhome of it is tald, Gif it be said for luve or for invy, And gif the tailisman weill avow it wald; Than eftirwart the pairteis sowld be cald For thair excuse, to mak lawfull defence: Than sowld ane lord the ballance evinly hald And gif not at the first haistie creddence. It is no wirschep for ane nobill lord For fals tailis to put ane trew man doun, And gevand creddence to the first recoird, He will not heir his excusatioun; The tittillaris so in his heir can roun The innocent may get no awdience: Ryme as it may, thair is na ressoun, To gif till taillis hestely creddence. Thir teltellaris oft tymes dois grit skaith, And raissis mortall feid and discrepance, And makis lordis with thair serwandis wreith, And baneist be withowtin cryme perchance. It is the grund of stryfe and all distance, Moir perrellus than ony pestillence, Ane lord in flatterreris to haif plesance, Or to gif lyaris hestely creddence. O thow wyse lord, quhen cumis a flatterrer, The for to pleis and hurt the innocent, Will tell ane taill of thy familiar, Thow sowld the pairteis call incontinent, And sitt doun sadly in to jugement, And serche the caus weill, or thow gif sentence, Or ellis heireftir in cais thow may repent That thow to tailis gaif so grit creddence. O wicket tung, sawand dissentioun, Of fals taillis to tell that will not tyre, Moir perrellus than ony fell pusoun, The pane of hell thow sall haif to thi hyre; Richt swa sall thay that hes joy or desyre To gife thair eirris to heird with patience, For of discord it kendillis mony fyre, Throwch geving talis hestely creddence. Bakbyttaris to heir it is no bowrd, For thay ar excommunicat in everie place; Thre personis severall he slayis with ane wowrd - Him self, the heirar, and the man saiklace; Within ane hude he hes ane dowbill face, Ane bludy tung undir a fair pretence. I say no moir, bot God grant lordis grace To gife to taillis nocht hestely creddence. The Praise of Age Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere, Ane ald man and decrepit herd I syng; Gay was the note, suete was the voce and clere; It was grete joy to here of sik a thing. "And to my dome," he said in his dytyng, "For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis. "False is this warld and full of variance, Besoucht with syn and othir sytis mo; Treuth is all tynt, gyle has the gouvernance, Wrechitnes has wroht all welthis wele to wo, Fredome is tynt and flemyt the lordis fro, And covatise is all the cause of this; I am content that youthede is ago: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blisse. "The state of youth I repute for na gude, For in that state sik perilis now I see Bot full smal grace; the regeing of his blude Can none gaynstand quhill that he agit be; Syne of the thing that tofore joyit he Nothing remaynis for to be callit his, For quhy it were bot veray vanitee: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blisse. "Suld no man traist this wrechit warld, for quhy Of erdly joy ay sorow is the end, The state of it can noman certify; This day a king, to morne na gude to spend. Quhat have we here bot grace us to defend? The quhilk God grant us, for to mend oure mys, That to His glore He may oure saulis send: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blisse." Ane Prayer for the Pest O eterne God of power infinyt, To Quhois hie knawledge na think is obscure- That is, or wes, or sal be, is perfyt Into Thi sicht, quhill that this warld indure- Haif mercy of us, indigent and peure; Thow dois no wrang to punis our offens: O lord, That is to mankynd haill succure, Preserve us fra this perrelus pestilens! We The beseik, O lord of lordis all, Thy eiris inclyne and heir our grit regrait: We ask remeid of The in generall, That is of help and confort dissolait: Bot Thow with rewth our hairtis recreate, We ar bot deid, but only Thy clemens: We The exhort on kneis law prostrait, Preserve us from this perrellus pestilens! We ar rycht glaid Thow punis our trespas Be ony kynd of udir tribulatioun: Wer it Thy will, O lord of hevin, allais, That we suld thus be haistely put doun And de as beistis without confessioun, That nane dar mak with udir residens? O blissit Jesu, that wore the thorny croun, Preserve us frome this perrelus pestilens! Use derth, O lord, or seiknes and hungir soir, And slak Thy plaig that is so penetryfe: Thy pepill ar preist - quha may remeid thairfoir, Bot Thow, O lord, that for thame lost Thy lyfe? Suppois our syne be to The pungetyfe, Our deid ma na thing our synnis recompens; Haif mercy, Lord, we may nocht with The stryfe; Preserve us fra this perrelus pestilens! Haif mercy, Lord; haif mercy, Hevyns King; Haif mercy of Thy pepill penitent; Haif mercy of our petous punissing; Retreit the sentence and Thy just jugement Aganis us synnaris that servis to be schent; Without mercy we may mak no defens; Thow that but rewth upoun the Rud wes rent, Preserve us frome this perrellus pestilens! Remembir, Lord, how deir Thow hes us bocht, That for us synnaris sched Thy pretius blude; Now to redeme that Thow hes maid of nocht, That is of virtew barrane and denude, Haif rewth, Lord, of Thyne awin similitude, Punis with pety and nocht with violens; We knaw it is for our ingratitude That we ar puneist with this pestillens. Thow grant us grace for till amend our mis And till evaid this crewall suddane deid; We knaw our sin is all the caus of this; For opin sin thair is set no remeid; The justice of God mon punis than be deid, For by the law he will with nane dispens; Quhair justice laikis thair is eternall feid Of God, that suld preserf fra pestilens. Bot wald the heidismen, that suld keip the law, Punis the peple for thair transgressioun, Thair wald na deid the peple than ourthraw; Bot thay ar gevin sa plenly to oppressioun That God will nocht heir thair intecessioun, Bot all ar punist for thair inobediens Be swerd or deid, withouttin remissioun, And hes just caus to send us pestilens. Superne Lucerne, guberne this pestilens, Preserve and serve that we nocht sterf thairin, Declyne that pyne be Thy devyne prudens, For trewth, haif rewth, lat nocht our slewth us twyn; Our syte, full tyte, wer we contryt, wald blin; Dissivir did nevir, quha evir The besocht. Send grace, with space, for to arrace fra sin; Lat nocht be tint that Thow sa deir hes bocht! O Prince preclair, this cair quotidiane, We The exort, distort it in exyle; Bot Thow remeid, this deid is bot ane trane For to dissaif the laif and thame begyle. Bot Thow, sa wyse, devyse to mend this byle, Of this mischeif quha may releif us ocht For wrangus win, bot Thow our sin oursyle? Lat nocht be tint that Thow sa deir hes bocht! Sen for our vice, that justice mon correct, O king most hie, now pacifé thy feid; Our sin is huge, refuge we nocht suspect; As Thow art juge, dislug us of this dreid, In tyme assent, or we be schent with deid, For we repent all tyme mispent forthocht; Thairfoir, evirmor, be gloir to Thy Godheid; Lat nocht be tint that Thow sa deir hes bocht! The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth Yowth Quhen fair Flora, the godes of the flouris, Baith firth and feildis freschly had ourfrete, And perly droppis of the balmy schouris Thir widdis grene had with thair watter wete, Movand allone in mornyng myld I mete A mirry man, that all of mirth cowth mene, Singand the sang that sueitly wes sete: "O yowth, be glaid in to thi flouris grene!" Aige I lukit furth a litill me before: I saw a cative on a club cumand, With cheikis lene and lyart lokis hore; His ene wes how, his voce wes hes hostand, Wallowit and wan and waik as ony wand; Ane bill he beure upoun his breist abone, In letteres leill but les, with this legend: "O yowth, thi flouris fedis fellone sone!" Yowth This yungman lap upoun the land full lycht, And mervellit mekle of his misdum maid; "Waddin I am," quod he, "and wonder wicht, With bran as bair, and breist burly and braid. Na growme on grund my gardoun may degraid, Nor of my pith may pair half wirth a prene; My face is fair, my figour will nocht faid: O yowth, be glaid in to thi flouris grene!" Aige This senyeour sang, bot with a sobir stevin; Schakand his berd, he said, "My bairne, lat be. I wes within thir sexty yeiris and sevin Ane freik on fold bayth frak, forsy, and fre; Als glad, als gay, als yung, als yaip as ye. Bot now that day is ordrawyne and done; Luk thow my laythly lykyne gif I le: O yowth, thy flouris fadis fellone sone!" Yowth Ane uthir vers this yungman yit cowth sing: "At luvis law a quhyle I think to leite, In court to cramp clenely in my clething And luke amangis thir lusty ladeis sueit; Of marriege to mell with mowis meit, In secreitnes quhair we may nocht be sene, And so with birdis blythlie my baillis beit: O yowth, be glaid in to thi flowris grene!" Aige This austryne man gaif ansuer angirly: "For thi crampyn thow sall bayth cruk and cowr, 4 And thy fleschely lust thow sall defy, And pane the sall put fra parramour - Than will no bird be blyth of the in bour, Quhen thi manheid sall move as the mone; Thow sall assay gif that my sang be sour: O yowth, thy flouris fadis fellone sone!" Yowth This myrry man of mirth yit movit moir: "My cors is clene without corruptioun, My self is sound, but seiknes or but soir, My wittis fyve in dew proportioun, My curage is of clene complexioun, My hairt is haill, my lever, and my splene; Thairfoir to reid this rowll I haif ressoun: O yowth, be glaid in to thy flouris grene!" Aige This bevir hair said to this berly berne: "This breif thow sall obey, sone, be thow bald; Thy stait, thi strenth thocht it be stark and sterne, The feviris fell and eild sall gar the fald; Thy corpis sall clyng, thi curagis sall wax cald, The heill sall hynk and tak a hurt bot hone; Thy wittis fyve sall wane, thocht thow not wald; O yowth, thi flouris fadis fellone sone!" Yowth This galyart grutchit and began to greif, And on his wayis wrechitly he went but wene; This lene man luche na thing bot tuk his leif, And I abaid ondir the levis grene. Off the cedullis the suth quhen I had sene, On trewth, me thocht thai trevist in thair tone: "O yowth, be glaid in to thi flouris grene!" "O yowth, thi flouris fedis fellone sone!" The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man Deth "O mortall man, behold, tak tent to me, Quhilk sowld thi mirrour be baith day and nycht. All erdly thing that evir tuik lyfe mon die: Paip, empriour, king, barroun, and knycht, Thocht thay be in thair roall stait and hicht, May nocht ganestand quhen I pleiss schute this derte; Waltownis, castellis, and towiris nevir so wicht May nocht risist quhill it be at his herte." Man "Now quhat art thow that biddis me thus tak tent And mak ane mirrour day and nycht of the, Or with thy dert I sowld richt soir repent? I trest trewly off that thow sall sone lie. Quhat freik on fold sa bald dar maniss me, Or with me fecht, owthir on fute or horss? Is non so wicht or stark in this cuntré, Bot I sall gar him bow to me on fors." Deth "My name, at me forswth sen that thou speiris, Tha call me Deid, suthly I the declair, Calland all man and woman to thair beiris Quhen evir I pleiss, quhat tyme, quhat plais, or quhair. Is nane sa stowt, sa fresche, nor yit sa fair, Sa yung, so ald, so riche, nor yit sa peur; Quhair evir I pass, owthir lait or air, Mon put thame haill on forss undir my cure." Man "Sen it is so that nature can so wirk That yung and awld, with riche and peure, mon die, In my yowtheid, allace, I wes full irk, Cowld not tak tent to gyd and governe me Ay gude to do, fra evill deidis to fle, Trestand ay yowtheid wold with me ay abyde, Fulfilland evir my sensualitie In deidly syn and specialy in pryd." Deth "Thairfoir repent and remord thi conscience, Think on thir wirdis I now upoun the cry: O wrechit man, O full of ignorance, All thi plesance thow sall deir aby; Dispone thy self and cum with me in hy, Edderis, askis, and wormis meit for to be; Cum quhen I call; thow may, me nocht denny, Thocht thow wer paip, empriour, and king al thre." Man "Sen it is sua fra the I may not chaip, This wrechit warld for me heir I defy, And to the, Deid, to luke undir thi caip, I offer me with hairt, richt hummilly, Beseikand God, the Divill, my ennemy, No power haif my sawill till assay. Jesus, on the with peteous voce I cry, Mercy on me to haif on Domisday." ffinis: quod hendersone Robene and Makyne Robene sat on gud grene hill Kepand a flok of fe; Mirry Makyne said him till, "Robene, thow rew on me! I haif the lovit lowd and still Thir yeiris two or thre; My dule in dern bot gif thow dill, Dowtles but dreid I de." Robene anserit, "Be the Rude, Na thing of lufe I knaw, Bot keipis my scheip undir yone wid; Lo quhair thay raik on raw. Quhat hes marrit the in thy mude, Makyne, to me thow schaw, Or quhat is lufe, or to be lude? Fane wald I leir that law." "At luvis lair gife thow will leir, Tak thair ane A B C: Be heynd, courtas, and fair of feir, Wyse, hardy, and fre, So that no denger do the deir, Quhat dule in dern thow dre; Preis the with pane at all poweir, Be patient and previe." Robene anserit hir agane, "I wait nocht quhat is luve, Bot I haif mervell in certane Quhat makis the this wanrufe. The weddir is fair and I am fane, My scheip gois haill aboif; And we wald play, us in this plane, Thay wald us bayth reproif." "Robene, tak tent unto my taill And wirk all as I reid, And thow sall haif my hairt all haill, Eik and my madinheid. Sen God sendis bute for baill, And for murning remeid, I dern with the bot gif I daill, Dowtles I am bot deid." "Makyne, to morne this ilk a tyde, And ye will meit me heir, Peraventure my scheip ma gang besyd Quhill we haif liggit full neir. Bot mawgré haif I and I byd, Fra thay begin to steir; Quhat lyis on hairt I will nocht hyd, Makyn, than mak gud cheir." "Robene, thow reivis me roif and rest; I luve bot the allone." "Makyne, adew, the sone gois west, The day is neir hand gone." "Robene, in dule I am so drest That lufe wilbe my bone." "Ga lufe, Makyne, quhair evir thow list, For lemman I bid none." "Robene, I stand in sic a styll; I sicht, and that full sair. `Makyne, I haif bene heir this quhyle; At hame God gif I wair." "My huny Robene, talk ane quhyll, Gif thow will do na mair." "Makyne, sum uthir man begyle, For hamewart I will fair." Robene on his wayis went,Als licht as leif of tre; Mawkin murnit in hir intent, And trowd him nevir to se. Robene brayd attour the bent; Than Mawkyne cryit on hie, "Now ma thow sing, for I am schent; Quhat alis lufe at me?" Mawkyne went hame withowttin faill, Full wery eftir cowth weip. Than Robene in a ful fair daill Assemblit all his scheip; Be that, sum pairte of Mawkynis aill Outthrow his hairt cowd creip. He fallowit hir fast thair till assaill, And till hir tuke gude keip: "Abyd, abyd, thow fair Makyne A word for ony thing! For all my luve it salbe thyne, Withowttin depairting: All haill thy harte for till haif myne Is all my cuvating; My scheip to morne quhill houris nyne Will neid of no keping." "Robene, thow hes hard soung and say In gestis and storeis auld, `The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.' I pray to Jesu every day, Mot eik thair cairis cauld That first preisis with the to play, Be firth, forrest, or fawld." "Makyne, the nicht is soft and dry, The wedder is warme and fair, And the grene woid rycht neir us by To walk attour all quhair; Thair ma na janglour us espy, That is to lufe contrair: Thairin, Makyne, bath ye and I, Unsene we ma repair." "Robene, that warld is all away And quyt brocht till ane end, And nevir agane thairto perfay Sall it be as thow wend, For of my pane thow maid it play, And all in vane I spend; As thow hes done, sa sall I say, `Murne on, I think to mend.'" "Mawkyne, the howp of all my heill, My hairt on the is sett, And evirmair to the be leill Quhill I may leif but lett; Nevir to faill as uthiris feill, Quhat grace that evir I gett." "Robene, with the I will nocht deill; Adew, for thus we mett." Malkyne went hame blyth annewche, Attour the holttis hair; Robene murnit and Malkyne lewche; Scho sang, he sichit sair; And so left him bayth wo and wewche, In dolour and in cair, Kepand his hird under a huche, Amangis the holtis hair. Sum Practysis of Medecyne Guk guk, gud day, ser! Gaip quhill ye get it. Sic greting may gane weill; gud laik in your hude. Ye wald deir me I trow, becaus I am dottit, To ruffill me with a ryme - na, ser, be the rude. Your saying I haif sene and on syd set it, As geir of all gaddering, glaikit nocht gude; 5 Als your medicyne by mesour I haif meit met it, 6 The quhilk I stand ford ye nocht understude, Bot wrett on as ye culd to gar folk wene For feir my longis wes flaft, Or I wes dottit or daft: Gife I can ocht of the craft, Heir be it sene. Becaus I ken your cunnyng in to cure Is clowtit and clampit and nocht weill cleird, My prettik in pottingary ye trow be als pure And lyk to your lawitnes - I schrew thame that leid. Is nowdir fevir nor fell that ovr the feild fure, Seiknes nor sairnes, in tyme gif I seid, Bot I can lib thanne and leiche thame fra lame and lesure, With salvis thame sound mak: on your saule beid, That ye be sicker of this sedull I send yow, With the suthfast seggis That glean all egeis With dia and dreggis Of malis to mend yow. Dia culcakit Cape cuk maid, and crop the colleraige, Ane medecyne for the maw and ye cowth mak it With sueit satlingis and sowrokis, the sop of the sege, 7 The crud of my culome, with your teith crakit, Lawrean and linget seid and the luffage, The hair of the hurcheoun nocht half deill hakkit, With the snowt of ane selch, ane swelling to swage: This cure is callit in our craft dia culcakkit. Put all thir in ane pan with pepper and pik. Syne sett in to this The count of ane cow kis; Is nocht bettir I wis, For the collik. Dia longum Recipe thre ruggis of the reid ruke, The gant of ane gray meir, the claik of ane gus, The dram of ane drekters, the douk of ane duke, The gaw of ane grene dow, the leg of ane lows, Fyve unce of ane fle wing, the fyn of ane fluke, With ane sleiffull of slak that growis in the slus; Myng all thir in ane mas with the mone cruke. This untment is rycht ganand for your awin us, With reid nettill seid in strang wesche to steip, For to bath your ba cod, Quhen ye wald nop and nod; Is nocht bettir be God, To latt yow to sleip. Dia glaconicon This dia is rycht deir and denteit in daill, 8 Caus it is trest and trew: thairfoir that ye tak Sevin sobbis of ane selche, the quhidder of ane quhaill, 9 The lug of ane lempet is nocht to forsaik, The harnis of ane haddok, hakkit or haill, With ane bustfull of blude of the scho bak, With ane brewing caldrun full of hait caill, For it wilbe the softar and sweittar of the smak: Thair is nocht sic ane lechecraft fra Lawdian to Lundin It is clippit in our cannon Dia glecolicon, For till fle awaye fon Quhair fulis ar fundin. Dia custrum The ferd feisik is fyne and of ane felloun pryce, Gud for haising and hosting or heit at the hairt. Recipe thre sponfull of the blak spyce, With ane grit gowpene of the gowk fart, The lug of ane lyoun, the gufe of ane gryce, Ane unce of ane oster poik at the nethir parte, Annoyntit with nurice doung for it is rycht nyce, Myngit with mysdirt and with mustart. Ye may clamp to this cure, and ye will mak cost, Bayth the bellox of ane brok, With thre crawis of the cok, The schadow of ane yule stok, Is gud for the host. Gud nycht, guk guk, for sa I began; I haif no come at this tyme langer to tary, Bot luk on this lettir and leird gif ye can, The prectik and poyntis of this pottingary: Ser, minister this medecyne at evin to sum man And or pryme be past, my powder I pary, Thay sall blis yow or ellis bittirly yow ban, For it sall fle thame in faith out of the fary. Bot luk quhen ye gadder thir gressis and gers, Outhir sawrand or sour, That it be in ane gude oure: It is ane mirk mirrour, Ane uthir manis ers. The Three Deid Pollis O sinfull man, in to this mortall se, Quhilk is the vaill of murnyng and of cair, With gaistly sicht behold oure heidis thre, Oure holkit ene, oure peilit pollis bair. As ye ar now, in to this warld we wair, Als fresche, als fair, als lusty to behald: Quhan thow lukis on this suth examplair Off thy self, man, thow may be richt unbald. For suth it is that every man mortall Mon suffer deid and de, that lyfe hes tane; Na erdly stait aganis deid ma prevaill; The hour of deth and place is uncertane, Quhilk is referrit to the hie God allane. Heirfoir haif mynd of deth, that thow mon dy: This sair exampill to se quotidiane Sowld caus all men fra wicket vycis fle. O wantone yowth, als fresche as lusty May, Farest of flowris, renewit quhyt and reid, Behald our heidis, O lusty gallandis gay; Full laithly thus sall ly thy lusty heid, Holkit and how, and wallowit as the weid; Thy crampand hair and eik thy cristall ene Full cairfully conclud sall dulefull deid; Thy example heir be us it may be sene. O ladeis quhyt, in claithis corruscant, Poleist with perle and mony pretius stane, With palpis quhyt and hals so elegant Sirculit with gold and sapheris mony ane; Your finyearis small, quhyt as quhailis bane, Arrayit with ringis and mony rubeis reid: As we ly thus, so sall ye ly ilk ane, With peilit pollis, and holkit thus your heid. O wofull pryd, the rute of all distres, With humill hairt upoun our pollis pens; Man, for thy mis, ask mercy with meiknes; Aganis deid na man may mak defens: The empriour, for all his excellens, King and quene, and eik all erdly stait, Peure and riche, salbe but differens Turnit in as and thus in erd translait. This questioun, quha can obsolve, lat see, Quhat phisnamour or perfyt palmester - Quha was farest or fowlest of us thre, Or quhilk of us of kin was gentillar, Or maist expert in science or in lare, In art, musik, or in astronomye? Heir sowld be your study and repair, And think as thus all your heidis mon be. O febill aige, drawand neir the dait Of dully deid, and hes thy dayis compleit, Behald our heidis with murning and regrait, Fall on thy kneis, ask grace at God, and greit, With orisionis and haly salmes sweit Beseikand him on the to haif mercy, Now of our sawlis, bydand the decreit Of His Godheid, to rew and glorifé. Als we exhort that every man mortall, For His saik that maid of nocht all thing, For mercy cry and pray in generall To Jesus Chryst, of hevin and erd the king, Throwch your prayar that we and ye may ring With the hie Fader be eternitie, The Sone alswa, the Haly Gaist conding, Thre knit in ane be perfyt unitie. The Want of Wyse Men Me mervellis of this grete confusion; I wald sum clerk of connyng walde declerde, Quhat gerris this warld be turnyt upsyd doun. Thare is na faithfull fastnes founde in erd; Now are noucht thre may traistly trow the ferde; Welth is away, and wit is worthin wrynkis; Now sele is sorow this is a wofull werde, Sen want of wyse men makis fulis to sit on binkis. That tyme quhen levit the king Saturnus, For gudely gouvernance this warld was goldin cald; For untreuth we wate noucht quhare to it turnis; The tyme that Octaviane, the monarch, coud hald, Our all was pes, wele set as hertis wald: Than regnyt reule, and resone held his rynkis; Now lakkis prudence, nobilitee is thralde, Sen want of wyse men makis fulis to sitt on bynkis. Arestotill for his moralitee, Austyn, or Ambrose, for dyvine scripture, Quha can placebo, and noucht half dirige, 10 That practik for to pike and pill the pure, He sall cum in, and thay stand at the dure; For warldly wyn sik walkis, quhen wysar wynkis; 11 Wit takis na worschip, sik is the aventure, Sen want of wysemen makis fulis to sitt on binkis. Now, but defense, rycht lyis all desolate, Rycht, na resone under na rufe has rest; Youth his but raddour, and age is obystynate, Mycht but mercy, the pore ar all opprest. Lerit folk suld tech the peple of the best, Thouch lare be lytil, fer lesse in tham sinkis: It may noucht be this warld ay thus suld lest, That want of wyse men makis fulis sitt on binkis. For now is exilde all ald noble corage, Lautee, lufe, and liberalitee; Now is stabilitee fundyn in na stage, Nor degest connsele wyth sad maturitee; Peas is away, all in perplexitee; Prudence and policy ar banyst our al brinkis: This warld is uer, sa may it callit be, That want of wisemen makis fulis sitt on bynkis. Quhare is the balance of just and equitee? Nouthir meryt is preisit, na punyst is trespas; All ledis lyvis lawles at libertee, Noucht reulit be reson, mare than ox or asse; Gude faith is flemyt, worthin fraellar than glas; Trew lufe is loren, and lautee haldis no lynkis; Sik gouvernance I call noucht worth a fasse, Sen want of wise men makis fulis sitt on binkis. Now wrang hes warrane, and law is bot wilfulness; Quha hes the war is worthin on him all the wyte, For trewth is tressoun, and faith is fals fekilness; Gylle is now gyd, and vane lust is also delyte; Kirk is contempnit, thay compt nocht cursing a myte; Grit God is grevit, that me rycht soir forthinkis: The caus of this ony man may sone wit, That want of wysemen garis fulis sit on binkis. Lue hes tane leif, and wirschip hes no udir wane; With passing poverty pryd is importable; Vyce is bot vertew, wit is with will soir ourgane; As lairdis so laddis, daly chengeable; But ryme or ressone all is bot heble hable; Sic sturtfull stering in to Godis neiss it stinkis; Bot he haif rew, all is unremedable, For want of wise men makis fulis sit on binkis. O lord of lordis, God and gouvernour, Makar and movar, bath of mare and lesse, Quhais power, wisedome, and honoure, Is infynite, sal be, and ewir wes, As in the principall mencioun of the messe, All thir sayd thingis reforme as thou best thinkis; Quhilk ar degradit, for pure pitee redresse, Sen want of wise [men] makis [fulis] sit in binkis. |
(see note) Strong; pleasing; (see note) sweet is [made]; (see note) authority can prove love who lingers; (see note) trouble relieves seat above As messenger; did speak meek greets In you; peace Without; sin decision; (see note) without afraid; undefiled womb without blemish Conceive; from sin message was completed above lady beguiled; (see note) Grew; chamber chaste; (see note) crowned; (see note) These; told princess; poor; peer submitted gladly; child unique undefiled believes loins creator rules great; fitting runs flame of love retaining; (see note) Unconsumed; joyously burns lady without moisture; (see note) sprout; cease fleece; moist; (see note) fall maiden made mother innocent intact embraces fear; (see note) situations humbled; help feared; die a death suffered; peace restores; (see note) rose loyal; most proper most; bright happy; most obedient heart the devil; angry; (see note) claw; sharp speed greatest power (see note) [that] was Considering in times of By chance I cast aside; eye (see note) for great royalty go beautiful possessions fortune wishes; from you Since; such examples; see each; (see note) most; scripture Tobias; (see note) grew poor; Tobias Both tested Since both [of them]; (see note) lame; (see note) fault reprove you by argument (see note) Kick; (see note) (see note) because of pity have compromised by no one save above; others made bound; slave poor; bag; staff (see note) must rule thee yourself ready; (see note) meek; elevate happy; voluntary wealth (see note) (see note) (see note) heard said bold ancient count daughter; embrace vital; young beauty; bore the prize also [was]; heir Of pleasant manners; high and also lived; grand chamber earth with desire everywhere a little way singularly foul giant; (see note) Stolen; young gone dungeon light great thirst suffered; dwelling; (see note) loathliest; see earth; walk claws; fiend's crook (see note) over took asunder giant (see note) Unless (But if) fight him in person fight Until one; struck bade search Both by sea if; hear fight; giant equal deed beautiful covenant hear fought cast; own Alone; companion well appropriate were seriously wounded was bound; die Hideous; body wound shirt creature see mourned; great lament great strength sorrowfully; wounded grant; taken Before courteous must I die; (see note) Certainly; believe shirt hang; in front of then woo By; gracious vow shirt released; bondage darkly health wounded (see note) (see note) here giant died; cross paid [for]; dearly horrible; (see note) wooer wooed turn truly laws; strictly enforced (see note) also betrayed dark Redeemed Gracious; listen (see note) shirt (see note) If do as I wish garment the best Have made for her body hood Ornamented; discretion suspicion; harm shift; next to her body chastity so white fear shift; fidelity; (see note) Laced; lawful love eyelets of steadfastness virtue ribboned Decorated; every fashion waist well-fitting repel both manners (behavior) tippet; (see note) partlet; meditation; (see note) neck; pity hope fingers; (see note) shoes; steadfastness sin hose apparel happiness wore; green or gray cloth; (see note) became (see note) gossips grafted Hoping; great about; neighbors should; (see note) truth Before; belief evaluate gossip envy if; gossip; swear; (see note) should be called [forward to make] scales (see note) (see note) giving; version side of the story gossips; ear; whisper (see note) gossip gossips; injury feud angry; (see note) banished; perhaps; (see note) discord perilous; plague pleasure confidante at once solemnly before you pass gossip sowing horrible poison for your efforts Just as; (see note) ears to hear; (see note) kindles Backbiters to hear; joke; (see note) (see note) innocent hood; double bloodthirsty (see note) Within a garden; rose-tree voice; (see note) judgment; verse desire; (see note) (see note) nearer Beset; sorrows more; (see note) lost; (see note) Miserliness; brought; value; (see note) Generosity; lost; driven away from gone hold such perils; (see note) raging; (see note) withstand when; aged previously enjoyed remains Because; only total Should; because always prosperity not a cent misdeeds glory; (see note) nearer (see note) eternal Whose high; nothing perfectly; (see note) while poor punish all source of succor dangerous plague beseech You ears lend; great lament relief from You destitute Unless; pity; rejuvenate dead without; clemency knees low By any; other stricken die another residence famine; sickness abate; pervasive hard-pressed; remedy Even if; irritating; (see note) death you strive (see note) pitiful punishment Retract deserve; punished without pity; Cross; torn redeemed created from nothing barren; stripped pity; own likeness Punish; pity misdeeds to evade; death cure must punish rather than be dead; (see note) grant remission likes; feud With But if; leaders; uphold death entreaties disobedience By sword or death (see note) Supreme Light abate; (see note) help; die Avert; pain have mercy; sloth; divide; (see note) grief; quickly; cease Parted [from you] time; escape from; (see note) lost illustrious; daily sorrow exhort you, divert Unless; remedy; trap deceive the survivors; (see note) Unless; heal; illness harm; at all wrongful gain; unless; cover over lost; (see note) (see note) high; anger anticipate remove; fear; (see note) before; destroyed remembered with regret; (see note) lost (see note) goddess; flowers wood; painted woods (see note) signify composed; (see note) of; fresh (see note) wretch; staff coming; (see note) grey-streaked white hair; (see note) eyes; sunken; hoarsely coughing Withered; pallid; weak; twig; (see note) placard; bore; above true without lie; inscription; (see note) fade horribly; (see note) danced (leapt); dexterously much; misjudgment given; (see note) Supple; wondrously strong muscle like a bear; broad man on earth; reward; diminish; (see note) strength; impair; pin; (see note) old man; somber voice; (see note) child this creature; earth; bold, strong; (see note) active passed; (see note) loathly visage; lie; (see note) horribly; (see note) Another; (see note) while; linger caper adroitly copulate; tricks appropriate; (see note) (see note) ladies; cares relieve; (see note) (see note) stern; (see note) renounce; (see note) pain; sexual love; (see note) lady; happy; bedroom wane; moon; (see note) test horribly persisted body without illness or disease; (see note) (see note) wholesome; (see note) sound; liver read; scroll; (see note) trembling greybeard; youth; (see note) law; bold condition; strong; hard horrible fever; age; gain corpse; shrivel; grow cold health; falter; without delay; (see note) though you'd not wish it so; (see note) horribly gallant grumbled; become angry; (see note) without doubt; (see note) lean; laughed; leave; (see note) remained under; (see note) meanings; truth; (see note) Truly; contradicted; (see note) horribly (see note) pay attention mirror earthly; must Pope Even though; granduer; (see note) to launch this shaft Walled towns; towers; strong; (see note) when it reaches his heart pay attention yourself sore lie; (see note) creature; earth so bold; menace fight; either strong; fierce; (see note) But; make him; by; (see note) in truth since; ask; (see note) Death; truly [funeral] biers please [There] is poor whether; either; early completely; power must die; (see note) youth; heedless pay attention Trusting; always youth; (see note) Gratifying pride examine remorsefully words wretched dearly pay for Make disposition; haste; (see note) Adders; newts; (see note) deny (see note) escape; wretched; here I renounce cloak sincerely; humbly(see note) Beseeching; (see note) assault (see note) sheep have pity silently; (see note) These woe; secret unless you assuage; (see note) Certainly for anxiety I die; (see note) Cross woods; (see note) go in a line disturbed you; mind show love; loved Eagerly; learn lore if; learn gentle; manner generous disdain cause you dread; (see note) No matter what sorrow in secret you suffer Press forward; penance and strength discreet know truth distressed happy safely If; open field both reprove pay heed do; advise entirely Also Since; relief; pain grief remedy fear; unless I dally tomorrow; same time If Perhaps; may stay nearby Until; lain together blame have I if I remain For; stir in heart deprive; peace only you sorrow; sunken bane Go; please lover; seek such a state sigh; sorely time if only I were sweet; a moment tempt homeward lighthearted; leaf grieved; mind believed hurried; above; field loudly destroyed What does love have against me discontent lovely dale By then; ailment Throughout overtake paid; attention at any price variance; (see note) Wholly; to desire tomorrow; until attention heard song and proverb tales; old would like to Might also; increase pushes woodland; field wood around everywhere gossip hostile may get together quite by my faith thought suffering; made light labored recover hope; health loyal live without delay many others dally (see note) happy enough Through; woods grey grieved; laughed sighed sorely sad; mournful pain; sorrow flock; hillside woods; gray (see note) Cuckoo; Seek; (see note) Such; sport; hood; (see note) harm; stupid confuse; rhyme; cross advice guarantee wrote; make; believe fear; lungs; fluttered; (see note) stupid; crazy know Here know; skill patched; botched; enlightened pharmacy; believe ignorance; curse; lie accident; over; earth fares; (see note) see it cure; heal; injury remedies; be it; (see note) certain; prescription reliable men illnesses; (see note) prescriptions; drugs sickness (see note) Take excrement; gather water pepper (see note) belly if turds; buttocks Laurel; linseed; lovage hedgehog; half chopped seal; reduce these; pitch cunt; kiss; (see note) know (see note) Take; tugs; red crow yawn; mare; cry; goose drake's penis; dive bile; dove; louse ounces; flea; flounder sleeve-full of algae; mud; (see note) Mix; crescent of the moon ointment; suitable; use seed; stale urine; soak scrotum nap help (see note) Because; trustworthy ear; limpet brains; chopped; whole jar-full; female bat hot cabbage flavor remedy; Lothian called folly fools; found (see note) fourth; prescription; outrageous hoarseness; cough; heartburn Take two handfuls; cuckoo ear; grunt; piglet ounce; oyster poked; (see note) nurse Mixed; mouse droppings add; if; accept the cost Both; testicles; badger crows log; (see note) cough gullible fool (cuckoo) not learn if details; apothecary before; medicine; wager bless; curse cause them to flee; (see note) herbs; plants Either savory hour dark ass skulls; (see note) sea; (see note) mourning; (see note) In horror hollow eyes; skulls peeled bare [of flesh] handsome true example timid true; (see note) Must suffer death; taken; (see note) death high Therefore; must die; (see note) hard; daily; (see note) vices [to] flee blooming white loathely; lie Hollowed; sunken; withered curling; also; eye sorrowfully end; doleful clothes sparkling Adorned breasts white; neck; (see note) Encircled; many [a] one fingers; whale's bone lie; lie every one peeled skulls; hollow root; (see note) humble; skulls think misdeeds; meekness Against death also; earthly estates; (see note) Poor; differently Buried; dust transformed who; resolve physiognomist; palmist Which more noble learning; (see note) Here should; resort; (see note) must; (see note) sorrowful mourning; regret weep; (see note) prayers; psalms; (see note) Beseeching submitting to the decree pity; (see note) Also nothing (see note) earth Through; abide; (see note) for of equal rank (see note) I marvel; (see note) learning; declare; (see note) causes; (see note) steadfastness truly believe has become trickery; (see note) happiness; fate; (see note) fools sit on court benches; (see note) lived; (see note) knew; where to; (see note) reign; (see note) Over; peace; (see note) reigned order; course; (see note) vanished; made a slave; (see note) Aristotle; (see note) St. Augustine; (see note) (see note) steal; dupe; poor; (see note) (see note) (see note) case; (see note) (see note) without; (see note) Neither right nor reason; roof; (see note) has; terror without; (see note) Learned learning; takes hold benches [of law] (see note) Loyalty; (see note) (see note) serious; sad age; (see note) Peace; (see note) sides; (see note) worse; (see note) scales; justice; (see note) praised; (see note) folk; (see note) (see note) banished; having become; (see note) lost; loyalty maintains no bonds knot; (see note) warrant; (see note) worse; become; reason Guile Church; reckon repent know Love; leave; other dwelling unbearable reason; wilfulness overcome lords so servants Without; (nonsense); (see note) Such vexatious ruling; nose Unless; pity greater; lesser Whose; (see note) ever Mass; (see note) (see note) Whoever; (see note) (see note) |