English pastorals Author:Edmund Kerchever Chambers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ENGLlSH PASTORALS. ROBERT HENRYSON. (i425?-148o?.; I. ROBYN AND MAKYNE. Henryson's pastoral is the earliest to be found in Great Britain. It pccurs i... more »n what is known as the Bannatyne AfS. (1568). A complete edition of Henryson's poems was published by Mr. D. Laing in 1865. Robyn and Makyne is also in Percy's Rcliques, in Allan Ramsay's Evergreen (1724), and in Mr. Eyre Todd's Midiaval Scottish Poetry (1892). DOBENE sat on gud greene hill, Kepand a flok of se1: Mirry Makyne said him till, "Robene, thow rew on me2; I haif thee luvit lowd and stills, Thir yeiris two or thre; My dule in dern4 bot gif thow dill5, Doutless but dreid I de6". Robene answerit, " Be the Rude, Na thing of lufe I knaw, But keipis my scheip undir yone wude, Lo! quhair thay raik on raw7; Quhat hes marrit thee in thy mude, Makyne, to me thow schaw? 1 Sheep. Have pity. ' Openly and secretly. Secret woe. Temper. Without doubt I die. 7 Range in row. Or quhat is lufe, or to be lude, Fane wald I leir1 that law." " At luvis lair gife thow will leir, Tak thair ane A, B, C; Be heynd2, courtass, and fair of feir3, Wyse, hardy, and fre: So that no denger do thee deir4, Quhat dule in dern thow dre5; Preiss6 thee with pane at all poweir, Be pacient, and previe." Robene answerit hir agane, "I wait7 nocht quhat is lufe; Bot I haif mervell incertaine, Quhat makis thee this wanrufe8. The weddir is fair, and I am fane9, My scheip gois haill aboif10, And11 we wald play us in this plane, Thay wald us bayth reproif." "Robene, tak tent12 unto my taill, And wirk all as I reid, And thow sail haif my hairt all haill, Eik and my maidinheid. Sen God sendis bute for baill, And for murnyng remeid; In dern with thee, bot gif I daill, Dowt...« less