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?
It rang sesweit through the grim Lommond, That the nycht-winde lowner blew: And it soupit alang the Loch Leven, And wakenit the white sea-mew.
It rang se sweit through the grim Lommond, Se sweitly but and se shill, That the wezilis laup out of their mouldy holis, And dancit on the mydnycht hill.
Ane consuetude against the common weill Suld be na law, I think, be sweit Sanct Geill.
The Pyote said, “Quhareto sulde thay presume For to resyste sweit Sensualytie, Or dame Ryches, quhilkis reularis bene in Rome?
He sippilit[877] lyk ane faderles fole; “And be still, my sweit thing!
I wis in vane, allace we will dissever, I say na mair, Sweit hart, adew for ever!
The rowpand Revin said, “Sweit syster, lat see Your holy intent; for it is tyme to go.
The dewil a wourde that scho might speik, Bot swownit that sweit of swair[876] For kyndnes, Of Peblis to the play.
Of grace thy face in euerie place sa schynis, That sweit all spreit baith heid and feit inclynis, Thy gloir afoir for till imploir remeid.
They wauked up, and they wauked down, Sweit sang the birdis in the vallie loun.
Till ae ein she to her sister can say, 'Sweit sister, cum let us wauk and play.
Her sweren zounds which be Gog's wounds, By bricht Marie and Gis, By sweit Sanct Ann and holie Tan And by Bryde's bell, ywis.
Fair Margaret sat in her bouir window, Combing her yellow hair; There she spiedsweit William and his bride, As they were a-riding near.
And when he came to fair Margaret's bouir, He knockit at the ring; And who so ready as her seven brethren To let sweit William in.
A most sweit garden, the knot much larger than that at Hamilton and in better order.
Saw Grange, a wery sweit place: was Tresaurer of Scottland in Quein Maries dayes, and Cunyghameheid was his depute, and his sone again was governour of Edenburgh Castle and was hanged.
The French mock at our sweit sauses and sugared sallades.
The laddies hurraed the drunkard's liver like onything, an' this gae Sandy time to get his breath, an' to dicht the sweit aff his face.
What gars the sweit drap frae yer brow, ' Like clots o' the saut sea faem?
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