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. 1907 Excerpt: ...nane skill: Do for thy self quhill thow art heir.' IX. 'And of this preist I will speik mair, 65 That had sa mekle of warldis wrack, Off all his freindis, less and mair, He wald nocht mend thame worth ane plack; Quhill Deid he hint him be the back, That he micht nowdir stand nor steir, 70 And lute him nocht his ...
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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. 1907 Excerpt: ...nane skill: Do for thy self quhill thow art heir.' IX. 'And of this preist I will speik mair, 65 That had sa mekle of warldis wrack, Off all his freindis, less and mair, He wald nocht mend thame worth ane plack; Quhill Deid he hint him be the back, That he micht nowdir stand nor steir, 70 And lute him nocht his testment mack: Do for thy self quhill thow art heir.' X. 'Sen for no wisdome, nor no strenth, Nor for no richess in this erd, That ony man his lyf may lenth, 75 Naythir for freyndschip agane wanewerd; I tak on hand fra thow be berd, Thy sectouris spendis thy gudis cleir: Thow may say that a fowle the lerd: Do for thy self quhill thow art heir.' 80 (100) OF THE NATIVITIE OF CHRIST. I. Now glaidith euery liffis creature, With bliss, and confortable glaidness, The hevynnis King is cled in our nature, Ws fro the deth with ransoun to redress; The lamp of joy, that chasis all dirkness, Ascendit is to be the warldis licht, Fro euery baill our boundis for to bless, Borne of the glorius Virgyn Mary bricht. t n..- Abone the radius hevin etheriall, The court of sterris, the courss of sone and mone, The potent Prince of joy imperiall, n. The he surmonting Empriour abone, Is cummyn fra his mychtie Faderis trone In erd, with ane inestimable licht, And is, of angellis with a sweit intone, 15 Borne of the most chest Virgyn Mary bricht. III. Quho euir in erd hard so blyth a story, Or tithing of sa grit felicite, As how the garthe of all grace and glory For luve and mercy hes tane humanite; 20 Makar of angellis, man, erd, hevin, and se, And to ourcum our fo, and put to flicht, Is cumin a bab, full of benignite, Borne of the most chest Virgyn Mary bricht. IV. The souerane Sen3our of all celsitude, a5 That sittis abone the ordour cherubin, Quhilk all thing creat, a...
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