Gif cairfuill thoftis restoir My havy heart from sorrow I am for evir moir In joy, both evin and morrow.
As evir the crown of your dadyes hat, Tis I wad lay thee by my back, And awa wi' me thou sould gang.
In dispite of yow and of your ministeris boith, thei shalbe banisshed owt of Scotland, albeit thei preached als trewlie as evir did Sanct Paule.
Thei shall all rejoyse that trust in thee: thei shall all evir be glaid; and thow wilt defend thame.
Tho Orodes the hard rest doith oppres, 25 The cauld and irny slepe of dethys stres, And vp the breth he ȝald onon rycht With eyn closyt in evir lestand nycht.
Sall I evir se the wallys Lawrentane, 20 Or evir eft my tentis sall I se?
Or quhat fortoun doith the cach and steyr, That to this sory hald thou cummys heir, 10 To vissy this trublyt dym regioun, Quhar evir is nycht, and nevir son ȝit schon?
I were as whyte As evir the snaw lay on the dike Ild clead me braw[1035] and lady-like, And awa wi’ thee Ild gang!
Grit pitie was to heir and se The noys and dulesum hermonie, That evir that dreiry day did daw!
Ettricke Foreste is the feirest foreste That evir man saw wi' his e'e.
But," said Lethingtoun, "whair evir find ye onie of the Propheitis so to haif pray it?
I doute nocht but the grit multitude accumpanit him in all abhominatiounis quhilk he did; for idolatrie, and ane fals religioun haith evir bene, is, and wilbe plesing to the moist pairt of men.
I were as white, As evir the snaw lay on the dike, Ild dead me braw, and lady-like, And awa with thee Ild gang.
As evir the crown of your dadyes hat, Tis I wad lay thee by my backe, And awa wi' me thou sould gang.
Makyne, the howp of all my heill, My hairt on thee is sett; And evirmair to thee be leill Quhill I may leif but lett; Never to faill as utheris feill, Quhat grace that evir I gett.
In return to which, ’tis affirm’d that Scotland eviryit hes bene free, Sin Scota of Ægypt tuick the see.
And he told me and Stompis bothe, whanne soevir he come he shuld be welcome, and that he wold do as welle to hym as to fewe servauntes he had for yowr sake, and that he wold kepe hym for yow.
I wolde in like case have don to yow, and as in the premysses I delt feithfully with yow and evir so shall dele, with the grase of God, Who have yow in Hys kepyng.
How evir this warld do change and vary, Lat us in hairt nevir moir be sary, But evir be reddy and addrest To pass out of this frawfull fary: {92b} For to be blyth me think it best.
And he that thryll is has nocht his; All that he has enbandownyt is Till hys lord, quhat-evir he be.
The hardest fechting forsuth this wes That evir the gud lord of Dowglas Wes in, as of sa few menyhe.
Schir Moris alsua de Berclay Fra the gret battell held his way, With a gret rout of Walis men; Quhar-evir thai yheid men mycht tham ken; 420 For thai weill neir all nakid war, Or lynyng clothis had but mair.
Sa weile defendyt he his men, 55 That quha-sa-evir had seyne him then Prove sa worthely vasselage, And turn sa oft sythis the visage, He suld say he awcht weill to be A king of gret rewate.
And giff I evir his baneir "May see displayit apon wer, 420 "I sall assembill on hym but dout, "All thouch yhe hald him nevir sa stout.
Bot quhatkyn dred that evirhe had, 675 Fayr contenance to thaim he maid.
Bot quhatkyn payn atevir thai had, Richt to the wall thai com but baid, That had weill neir tuelf fut on hicht.
Ettricke Foreste is the feirest foreste That evirman saw wi' his ee.
But take ye hed and inquere and knowe other mennes purpos, and kepe your intent as close as ye can; and what some evir boost be mad, werk ye wisely and set not by it but send me word what ye here.
Item, remembir yow or evir I had a doo with Fastolffis livelode, whill I toke hede to my livelode my self, it both served myn expenses at home and at London and all other charges, and ye leid up mony in my cofirs every yere, as ye knowe.
Evir am I, of fairest form, No vengeance can me satisfy; In tears no pleasure I can find, ’Tis sad that I am left behind.
Evir of the weighty locks asks Her agreement with Cuchullin, That she should now have her birds, Without excuse about them.
Evir took wrath for her share, ’Tis true that prudence was lacking.
God sen my lyfe wer fra me tone, Or I had sene yone sicht; 70 Or ellis in begging evir to gone, Furth with yone curtass knycht!
Than he beur kendling to the kill, But scho start all up in ane low; 90 Quhat evir he hard, quhat evir he saw, That day he had na will to mow.
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