Poetical Remains: Of James the First, King of Scotland

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J. and E. Balfour, 1783 - 246 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 90 - With regal ornament: The middle pair " Girt like a ftarry zone his waift ; and round " Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, " And colours dipt in heaven : The third, his feet " Shadowed from either heel with feather'd mail,
Pàgina 57 - have I gilt to faille, My fredome in this warld and my plefance ? Sen every wight has thereof fuffifance, That I behold, and Ia creature Put from all this, hard is myn aventure ? VIII. The bird, the befte, the fifch eke in the fee, They lyve in fredome everich in his kynd; And
Pàgina 62 - he Be lord, and, as a god, may lyve and regne, To bynd, and loufe, and maken thrallis free, Than wold I pray his blifsful grace benigne, " To hable me unto his fervice digne, And evermore for to be one of tho Him trewly for to ferve in wele and wo. XXI. \ And
Pàgina 67 - as gold, Forgit of fchap like to the * amorettis, So new, fo frefch, fo pleafant to behold, The plumys eke like to the " floure jonettis, And other of fchap, like to the floure jonettis ; And, above all this, there was, wele I wote, Beautee eneuch to
Pàgina 136 - dere, Gowere and Chaucere, that on the fteppis fatt Of rethorike, quhill thai were lyvand here, Superlatiue as poetis laureate, In moralitee and eloquence ornate, I recommend my buk in lynis feven, And eke thair faulis vnto the
Pàgina 57 - And zit of every lyvis help has nede. X. The long dayes and the nyghtis eke, I wold bewaille my fortune in this wife, For quhich again diftrefle confort to feke, My cuftum was on mornis for to rife Airly as day, O happy exercife
Pàgina 83 - A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly markt among the fry: He had a roguifh twinkle in his eye, And fhone all
Pàgina 83 - lecher is painted with great humour by a modern poet : Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks great plenty here you mote efpy; A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly
Pàgina 77 - XLVIII. And, quhen fche walkit, had a lytill thrawe Under the fuete grene bewis bent, Hir faire frefch face, as quhite as any fnawe, Sche turnyt has, and furth her wayis went; Bot tho began myn « axis and turment, To fene hir part, and folowe I na
Pàgina 87 - of delyte, Sum bene of thame y L haldin were full lawe, And take by frendis, nothing thay to wyte, In zouth from lufe, into the cloiftere quite, And for that caufe are cummyn recounfilit, On thame to

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