This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...sauld in pynt & quart in maner foirsaid, vnder be pane of eschaeting of all be saidts wynis bat bai salhappin to by, to gidder with be rest of all batr gudts movabill, for bair contemptioun; and bis act to extend alsweill to burcAt as to landt s and vpoun be byaris & sellaris. XXIV. SIR DAVID LYNDSAY. The first passage ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...sauld in pynt & quart in maner foirsaid, vnder be pane of eschaeting of all be saidts wynis bat bai salhappin to by, to gidder with be rest of all batr gudts movabill, for bair contemptioun; and bis act to extend alsweill to burcAt as to landt s and vpoun be byaris & sellaris. XXIV. SIR DAVID LYNDSAY. The first passage is taken from the 8vo black-letter Dialog betuix Experience ami arte Courteour (otherwise known as the Monarche), 11. 538-684, printed at "Copmawhoun" and dated 1552 (but printed at St Andrews in 1554); the second is from The Dreme, 11. 799-1036, also printed at the same press. Both texts are taken from the rare copies in the volume of Lyndsay's poems in the Library of the University of Edinburgh (De. 6. 35). The third is from Arte Satyre of the Thrie Eilailis, printed by Robert Charteris, Edinburgh, 1602. The complete works of Sir David Lyndsay have been printed and edited by the E. E. T. S. (1865-71) and by David Laing (3 vols., 1879). p. 22.(a) ANE EXCLAMATIOUN TO THE REDAR, TWYCHEYNG THE WRYTTYNG OF VULGARE AND MATERNALL LANGUAGE. GENTYL Redar, haif at me non dispyte, Thynkand that I presumptuously pretend, In vulgair towng so heych mater to writ; Bot quhair I mys I pray %e till amend. Tyll vnlernit I wald the cause wer kend 5 Off our most miserabyll trauell and torment, And quhow, in erth, no place bene parmanent. Quhowbeit that diuers deuote cunnyng Clerkis In Latyne toung hes wryttin syndrie bukis, Our vnlernit knawis lytill of thare werkis, 10 More than thay do the rauyng of the Rukis. Quharefore to Col3earis, Cairtaris, & to Cukis, To Iok and Thome, my Ryme sall be diractit, With cunnyng men quhowbeit it wylbe lactit. Thocht euery Commoun may nocht be one Clerk, Nor hes no Leid except thare toung maternall, Quhy...
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