Quhy tholis[48] thow thy hevinlie plesand face With mystie vapouris to be obscurit, allace!
Quhy sulde vertew, throuch flattrye, be refusit, That men for cunnyng[222] can get no rewarde?
We thee beseik, or[160] thou depart us fro, Declare to us sum causis reasonabyll Quhy we bene haldin so abhominabyll.
Sir, be quhat law, tell me, quhairfoir or quhy That ane vickar suld tak fra me thrie ky?
And quhen Ferrandis moder herd How hir sone in the battale ferd, And that he swa wes discumfit, Scho rasit the evill spirit als tit: And askit quhy he gabbit had 290 Of the ansuer that he hir mad.
Than said the Kyng, in full gret ire, 'Tratour, quhy maid thou on the fyre?
And quhou or quhy that he is callit Quyrites, and of his dowtsum end, and of the sonnis eclips the tym of his ded, and quhy he was repute a god, reid Titus Lyuius, John Bocas in the last c.
Quhy suld I than, with dull forhed and vayn, With rude engyne and barrand emptyve brayn, 20 With bad harsk spech and lewit barbour tong, Presume to write quhar thy sweit bell is rung, Or contyrfate sa precyus wordys deir?
Quhy grantis thou nocht we mycht joyn hand in hand, And fortill heir and rendir vocis trew?
Quhy doith he reffus my wordis and prayeris To lat entir in his dul ontretabill eris?
Bot, gif my power nocht sufficient be, Or gret eneuch, quhy suld I dreid or spar To purches help, fursuyth, atour alquhar?
First, for peple they wryte people, I trow because it cumes from populus; but if that be a reason, I wald understand a reason quhy they speak not soe alsoe.
Or gif they speak not soe, I wald understand quhy they wryte not as they speak.
Of hir behest he had greit comforting, 50 Traisting to Troy that sho suld mak retour, Quhilk he desyrit maist of eirdly thing, For-quhy sho was his only paramour.
On fair Cresseid quhy hes thow na mercy, 325 Quhilk was sa sweit, gentill, and amorous?
And quhy then may thai nocht alswele tak twa ane armes, or thre, or alsmony as lykis.
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