Furth held this heir the secret prevy way Towart the sted quhar as Eneas lay, His Troiane gest, ramembring al at rycht Hys help and promys grantit ȝister nyght.
The chaist virgyn Sibil wil convoy the The rycht way thidder, quhilk at thou sal tak By blude offerit of mony bestis blak.
It flaw out quethyr, and with a rout, And fell rycht ewyn befor the sow.
To sic grit stouth quha eir wald trow it, Bot gif some great man it allowit Rycht sair I trow Thocht it be rew: Thair is sa few That dar avow it.
To God and man the rycht full weill is knawin (known).
But since that it hath pleased the mercyis of God to reveill unto the unthankfull world the lyght of his wourd, the rycht use and administratioun of his sacramentis, he assayis man upoun the contrarie parte.
In my opinioun, quhosoever gaif you that counsall eather laicked rycht judgement in thingis to be done, or ellis had too much respect to his awin ease, and too small regaird to the travaill and danger of thair bretherein.
Rycht suth it is that anys we mon de: In to the rycht, quha suld in terrour be?
The manlyast man, the starkest off persoun, Leyffand he was; and als stud in sic rycht We traist weill God his dedis had in sycht.
The rycht is ouris, we suld mor ardent be; I think to freith this land, or ellis de.
In tym off pes, mek as a maid was he; Quhar wer approchyt the rycht Ector was he.
This fadyr monk was wesyd with seknace, Out off the warld as he suld pass on cace, His brothyr saw the spret lykly to pass; A band off him rycht ernystly he coud ass.
We are told, however, that “Rycht gudly men come off this lady ying.
Martyr thow art for Scotlandis rycht and me; I sall the wenge, or ellis tharfor de.
And gyff that ony man thaim by Had ony thing that wes worthy, As horss, or hund, or othir thing, That war pleasand to thar liking; With rycht or wrang it wald have thai.
For thai dempt thaim eftir thair will, Takand na kep to rycht na skill.
Nevyrtheless yhit thai hym fand Nocht thre myle fra that ilk place; Thare tane and broucht agane he was Til Karlaveroc, be thai men That frendis war til Kirkpatrik then; Thare was he kepyd rycht straytly.
For thai dempt thaim eftir thar will, Takand na kep to rycht na skill.
The thrid, with full gret hy, with this Rycht till the bra-syd he yheid, And stert be-hynd hym on his sted.
And biggit up the castell swith, And made it rycht stalward and stith; And put thar-in vittale and men.
For him thoucht men of sic covyne, So gud so hardy and so fyne, Suld weill in battall hald thair rycht Agane men of full mekill mycht.
To ly heir mair war litill skill: 'Tharfor till Arane pass will we, 'For I knaw rycht weill that cuntre.
And ane othir come eftir neir: And rycht apon the sammyn maner Thai com, quhill seven battellis braid Out-our that high ryg passit had.
And quhen the Inglis men has seyne The Erll and all his men be-deyne 570 Fecht sa stoutly, but effraying, Rycht as thai had nane abaysing, Thai pressit thame with all thar mycht.
And the said Barbara and Effie McCalyane gatt than ane promeis of the Dewill, that his hienes pictour sould be gottin to thame twa, and that rycht sone: And this mater of his hienes pictour was the caus of that assemblie.
Be that with all the force thay can Thay rycht rudelie at uther ran.
Rycht sair I rew, Thocht it be trew, Thair is sa few That dar avow it.
Als yit to thee I say ane-uther thyng: I see rycht weill that proverbe is full trew, ‘Wo to the realme that hes ouer young ane King!
Ouer firth and fell[88] rycht fast fra me he flew, Quhose departyng to me was displesand.
Quod he, “Quhair ar yone hangit smaix[1020] Rycht now wald slane my bruder?
Quhair I wes wont to se hir go Rycht trymly passand to and fro With cumly smylis quhen I met hir; And now I leif in pane and wo, And brekis my hart, and nocht the bettir.
I saw Pape Julius manfullye Passe to the feild tryumphantlye With anerycht aufull ordinance Contrar Lowis, the kyng of France.
The Squyer lap rycht haistelie From his cursour deliverlie, And to Sir Talbart maid support, And humillie did him comfort.
His brothyr saw the spret lykly to pass; 1245 A band off him rycht ernystly he coud ass, To cum agayn, and schaw him oft the meid, At he suld haiff at God for his gud deid.
Rycht weyll I wait, weschell is lewyt nayn, Fra the Wood hawyn, to the ferry cald Aran.
Yeit Inglissmen, that worthi war in wer, In to the stour rycht bauldly can thaim ber.
Wallace off hand, sen Arthour, had na mak; 845 Quhom he hyt rycht was ay dede off a strak.
Martyr thow art for Scotlandis rycht and me; “I sall the wenge, or ellis tharfor de.
The knychtis brodyr rycht stalwart was and strang; And thocht he suld be wengyt or thai gang.
He traistis the, rycht weyll thow may him tak; 805 “Off this mater ane end I think to mak.
The Scottis men, that in the park than lay, Wyst rycht nouht off that gadryng, Made thame gret myrth and solasyng.
The Kyng Alysandyre off Scotland Come on thame than wyth stalwart hand, And thame assaylyd rycht stowtly: Thai thame defendyd rycht manlyly.
For thai dempt[93] thaim eftir thair will, Takand na kep[94] to rycht na skill.
And gyff that ony man thaim by Had ony thing that wes worthy, As horss or hund or othir thing That war plesand to thar liking, With rycht or wrang it have wald thai.
Than, with the men that with him war, The catell folowit he gud speid, Rychtas a man that had na dreid, Till that he gat off thaim a sycht.
And the presoneris that he had tane Rycht thar in gert he heid ilkane; Syne off the townnys he hedis outstrak: A foule melle thar gane he mak.
Bot ane or twa, for owtyn ma, Than in hy war left lyand Quhill Dowglas come rycht at hand.
And thai that saw sa sudanly That folk come egyrly prikand Rycht betuix thairn and thair warank, Thai war in to full gret effray.
And biggyt wp the castell swyth; And maid it rychtstalwart and styth And put tharin victallis and men Ane off the Thyrwallys then He left behind him Capitane, And syne till Ingland went agayne.
And the carioune thar in haly place Erdyt, with rycht gret worschip, was.
Wallace in stour wes cruelly fechtand; Fra a Sotheroune he smat off the rycht hand: And quhen that carle off fechtyng mycht no mar, With the left hand in ire held a buklar.
In Glendowchar yair spy met yaim agayne With lord Cambell, yan was our folk rycht fayne.
Rycht stark he was, and had bot litill gayne, Thus Wallace wist: had he beyne left allayne.
Quhilk rycht and superioratie, quhan sche haid gottin, and quhan the money was payit, the first fruittis of thair libertie thay now eitt with bitternes, to wit, that strangearis sall possess thair town.
In the which it is no dowbt but the servandis of God did dampne the abuse only, and not the rycht ordinance of God; for who knowes not, that Excommunicatioun in these dayis was altogether abused!
To the rycht honourable and our rycht traist cousing the lard of Dvn.
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