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The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld (1); With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary
The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld With Memoir Notes and Glossary - 1 Author:Gawin Douglas Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: W. Paterson Subjects: Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. Wh... more »en you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: K1NG HART, [canto The First.] ING HART, into his cumlie castell cor in corpo- rehominis. Strang Hart in body Closit about with craft and meikill vre, So semlie wes he set his folk amang, That he no dout had of misaventure : So proudlie wes he polist, plane and pure, With jouthheid and his lustie levis grene; So fair, so fresche, so liklie to endure, And als so blyth as bird in symmer schene. For wes he never jit with schouris schot, Nor jit ourrun with rouk, or ony rayne ; In all his lusty lecam nocht ane spot, Na never had experience into payne, Bot alway into lyking, nocht to layne ; Onlie to love, and verrie gentilnes, He wes inclynit cleinlie to remane, And wonn vnder the wyng of wantownnes. quotnomina 3it was this wourthy wicht King vnder warde ; For wes he nocht at fredom vtterlie. Nature had lymmit folk, for thair rewarde, This gudlie king to governe and to gy ; For so thai kest thair tyme to occupy. In welthis for to wyne for thay him teichit, All lustis for to laue, and vnderly j So prevelie thai preis him and him preichit. us et First [war thair] Strenth, [and Rage,] and Wantownnes, ;, Jelosy, and Invy ; 10 Freschnes, New Gate, Waist-gude, and Wilfulnes, Delyuernes, Fulehardenes thairby: Gentrice, Fredome, Petie-previe I espy, Want-wyt, Vanegloir, Prodigalitie, Vnrest, Nicht-walk, and felon Glutony, Vnricht, Dyme sicht, with Slicht, and Subtiltie. Thir war the inwarde ythand seruitouris, Quhilk goue...« less