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The testament of Cresseid / compylit be M. Robert Henrysone

 
dc.contributor Watson, Harry D. Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
dc.contributor.author Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?
dc.contributor.editor Smith, G. Gregory (George Gregory), 1865-1932
dc.coverage.placeName Edinburgh
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T16:31:51Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-21T16:31:51Z
dc.date.created 1450-1506
dc.date.issued 1984-05-01
dc.identifier ota:2232
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2232
dc.description.abstract The Scottish Text Society's edition of The poems of Robert Henryson makes up three volumes of the Society's first series (55, 58, 64), of which the contents: Vol. I. Introduction, appendix, notes, index of words and glossary, general index -- v. II-III. Text
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dc.language Scots
dc.language.iso sco
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Poems -- Scotland -- 14th century
dc.subject.other Poems
dc.title The testament of Cresseid / compylit be M. Robert Henrysone
dc.type Text
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<T HENR CRESS>
<B HENR>
<KHTC>
<N CH 1593 TRS DFOX>
<D 1500A>
<DV 1593A>
<L 1>THE TESTAMENT OF
CRESSEID.
COMPYLIT BE M. ROBERT
HENRYSONE, SCULEMAISTER
IN DUNFERMELING.
IMPRENTIT AT EDINBURGH
BE HENRIE CHARTERIS.
<Q ?FIFE>
<MRCT>
<H ABABBCC>
<L 1> ANE DOOLIE SESSOUN TO ANE CAIRFULL DYTE
SULD CORRESPOND, AND BE EQUIUALENT.
RICHT SA IT WES QUHEN I BEGAN TO WRYTE
THIS TRAGEDIE, THE WEDDER RICHT FERUENT
QUHEN ARIES IN MIDDIS OF THE LENT
SCHOURIS OF HAILL CAN (GART) FRA THE NORTH DISCEND
THAT SCANTLIE FRA THE CAULD I MICHT DEFEND.

ZIT NEUERTHELES WITHIN MYNE ORATUR
I STUDE, QUHEN TITAN HAD HIS BEMIS BRICHT
WITHDRAWIN DOUN, AND SYLIT (SCYLED) VNDER CURE
AND FAIR VENUS THE BEWTIE OF THE NICHT
VPRAIS, AND SET VNTO THE WEST FULL RICHT
HIR GOLDIN FACE, IN OPPOSITIOUN
OF GOD PHEBUS DIRECT DISCENDING DOUN

THROW OUT THE GLAS HIR BEMIS  BRAST SA FAIR
THAT I MICHT SE ON EUERIE SYDE ME BY
THE NORTHIN WIND HAD PURIFYIT THE AIR
AND SCHED THE MISTIE CLOUDIS FRA THE SKY,
THE FROIST FREISIT THE BLASTIS BI . . .
										

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