Poems of Alexander Montgomerie And Other Pieces from Laing MS. No. 447: Supplementary Volume: Edited with Introduction, Appendices, Notes, and Glossary by George Stevenson |
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THE LAST AND THRID FLYTTING AGANIS C. ALEXr. MONTGOMRIE, AS ANE REPLY TO HIS THIRD INVECTIVE, BEGINAND IN THIR WORDIS: IN THE HENDER END. |
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THE LAST AND THRID FLYTTING AGANIS C. ALEXr. MONTGOMRIE, AS ANE REPLY TO HIS THIRD INVECTIVE, BEGINAND IN THIR WORDIS: IN THE HENDER END.
Infernall, froward, fumus fureis fell!
Curst, crabit, cankert sclawe, comper to quell
Ȝon chairibald, ȝon cative execrabill.
provok my pen profundlie to distell
Sum dour dispyt, to daunt ȝon dewill in hell,
And dryve, with duill, to deid detestabill,
That mad, malitious, monstour miserabill;
Ane tyk tormentit, tratling out of Tun,
That rynis reid-wood, at ilk midis of þe moone.
Curst, crabit, cankert sclawe, comper to quell
Ȝon chairibald, ȝon cative execrabill.
provok my pen profundlie to distell
Sum dour dispyt, to daunt ȝon dewill in hell,
And dryve, with duill, to deid detestabill,
That mad, malitious, monstour miserabill;
Ane tyk tormentit, tratling out of Tun,
That rynis reid-wood, at ilk midis of þe moone.
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Reveill ȝour rairing [rage] and eger Ire,
Inflamit with fairfull thundring thudis of fyre
To plaig the poisonit pykthank pestalent.
with fleing fyreflauchis burning bricht and schyre,
Devoir ȝon devillish dragone, I desyre;
And waist his wareit venym violent.
Coniure þis beistlie begger impotent:
Suppres all power of king pluttois sprit,
That byddis and barkis in him als blak as Iet.
Inflamit with fairfull thundring thudis of fyre
To plaig the poisonit pykthank pestalent.
with fleing fyreflauchis burning bricht and schyre,
Devoir ȝon devillish dragone, I desyre;
And waist his wareit venym violent.
Coniure þis beistlie begger impotent:
Suppres all power of king pluttois sprit,
That byddis and barkis in him als blak as Iet.
Bot, reikis rewkis and rewinis, ere ȝe ryve him,
desist, delay his death, quhill I discryve him;
Syne ryplie to his rude raving reply.
To doolfull dollour derflie, or ȝe dryve him,
Throw plutois power, all pleassur I depryve him;
The loun man lik his womeit, and deny
His schameles sawis, lyk sathanis slavish smy,
Quhais maneris, with his mismaid memberis heir,
Dois correspond, as planelie dois appeir.
desist, delay his death, quhill I discryve him;
Syne ryplie to his rude raving reply.
To doolfull dollour derflie, or ȝe dryve him,
Throw plutois power, all pleassur I depryve him;
The loun man lik his womeit, and deny
His schameles sawis, lyk sathanis slavish smy,
Quhais maneris, with his mismaid memberis heir,
Dois correspond, as planelie dois appeir.
His peild pallat, and vnpleasant pow,
The fowsome flokis of flaeis dois overflow,
with vamis and wondis; all bleknit full of blainis
Out our þe nek; athort his nittie now
Ilk lowsie lyce lurkand lyk ane lint bow,
His hairie hair, and bruisit, birny branis
weill baillit, þe bluid evanischit from his wanis;
with scoiris and crakis athort his froisnit front,
In runkillis run ruwth in þe stewis brunt.
The fowsome flokis of flaeis dois overflow,
with vamis and wondis; all bleknit full of blainis
Out our þe nek; athort his nittie now
Ilk lowsie lyce lurkand lyk ane lint bow,
His hairie hair, and bruisit, birny branis
weill baillit, þe bluid evanischit from his wanis;
with scoiris and crakis athort his froisnit front,
In runkillis run ruwth in þe stewis brunt.
His luggis baith lang and lasie quha can bot lak,
That to þe trone he can so mony tak?
with blastit bowellis, boldin with bristin baill,
and streichlie hairis blavin widdersins abauk.
for fundrit beistis, for fault of humour wak,
Hes not þair hairis so sned as totheris gude.
The blairit buk and bystour, to conclude,
Hes richt trim teith, sum quhat sett on ane thraw,
Ane toppit turde richt tewchlie for to taw.
That to þe trone he can so mony tak?
with blastit bowellis, boldin with bristin baill,
and streichlie hairis blavin widdersins abauk.
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Hes not þair hairis so sned as totheris gude.
The blairit buk and bystour, to conclude,
Hes richt trim teith, sum quhat sett on ane thraw,
Ane toppit turde richt tewchlie for to taw.
With laidlie lippis, and lynning-syd turnd out;
His noiss weill lit in bacchus blude about;
his stinkand end corroptit as men knawis;
Contageous cankerss clairis his sneivilling snowt;
his schewin schoulderis schawis þe merkis, but dout,
of tarledderis tewch, tyris and vþer tawis,
and girdis of gaylayis, growand new in gawis.
Swa all his fowsome forme thair[to] effeiris,
quhair with, for filth, I will not fyll ȝour earis.
His noiss weill lit in bacchus blude about;
his stinkand end corroptit as men knawis;
Contageous cankerss clairis his sneivilling snowt;
his schewin schoulderis schawis þe merkis, but dout,
of tarledderis tewch, tyris and vþer tawis,
and girdis of gaylayis, growand new in gawis.
Swa all his fowsome forme thair[to] effeiris,
quhair with, for filth, I will not fyll ȝour earis.
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