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LI. A POEME ON THE SAME LADY.
Ȝe hevinis abone, with heavinlie ornamentis,
Extend ȝour courtingis of ye cristall air!
To asuir colour turne ȝour elements,
And soft yis seasoun, quhilk hes bene schairp and sair:
Command the cluddis that thay dissolve na mair,
Nor us molest with mistie vapouris weit;
For now scho cummis, the fairest of all fair,
The mundane mirrour, maikles Margareit.
Extend ȝour courtingis of ye cristall air!
To asuir colour turne ȝour elements,
And soft yis seasoun, quhilk hes bene schairp and sair:
Command the cluddis that thay dissolve na mair,
Nor us molest with mistie vapouris weit;
For now scho cummis, the fairest of all fair,
The mundane mirrour, maikles Margareit.
The myildest may; the mekest, and modest;
Tho fairest flour, the freschest flourisching;
The lamp of licht; of ȝouth the lustiest;
The blythest bird, of bewtie maist bening;
Groundit with grace, and godlie governing,
As A per se, abone all elevat;
To quhome comparit is na erthlie thing,
Nor with the goddis so heichlie estimat.
Tho fairest flour, the freschest flourisching;
The lamp of licht; of ȝouth the lustiest;
The blythest bird, of bewtie maist bening;
Groundit with grace, and godlie governing,
As A per se, abone all elevat;
To quhome comparit is na erthlie thing,
Nor with the goddis so heichlie estimat.
The goddes Diana, in hir hevinlie throne,
Evin at the full of all hir maiestie,
Quhen scho belevit that dainger was thair none,
Bot in hir sphere ascending vp maist hie,
Vpon this nymph fra that scho casit hir ei,
Blusching for schame, out of hir schyne scho slippis;
Thinking scho had bene Phœbus verelie,
At quhose depairt scho fell into the eclipis.
Evin at the full of all hir maiestie,
Quhen scho belevit that dainger was thair none,
Bot in hir sphere ascending vp maist hie,
Vpon this nymph fra that scho casit hir ei,
Blusching for schame, out of hir schyne scho slippis;
Thinking scho had bene Phœbus verelie,
At quhose depairt scho fell into the eclipis.
The asters cleir, and torchis of the nicht,
Quhilk in the sterrie firmament wer fixit,
Fra thay persavit dame Phœbes lost hir licht,
Lyik diamontis with cristall perlis mixit,
They did discend, to schyne this nymph annixit,
Vpon hir schoulderis twinkling everie on;
Quhilk to depaint it wald be ouer prolixit,
How thay in ordour glisteris on hir goun.
Quhilk in the sterrie firmament wer fixit,
Fra thay persavit dame Phœbes lost hir licht,
Lyik diamontis with cristall perlis mixit,
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Vpon hir schoulderis twinkling everie on;
Quhilk to depaint it wald be ouer prolixit,
How thay in ordour glisteris on hir goun.
Gif she had bene into the dayis auld,
Quhen Jupiter the schap of bull did tak,
Befoir Europe quhen he his feit did fauld,
Quhill scho throw courage clam vpon his bak;
Sum greater mayck, I wait, he had gart mak,
Hir to haue stollin be his slichtis quent;
For to have past abone the zodiak,
As quein and goddes of the firmament.
Quhen Jupiter the schap of bull did tak,
Befoir Europe quhen he his feit did fauld,
Quhill scho throw courage clam vpon his bak;
Sum greater mayck, I wait, he had gart mak,
Hir to haue stollin be his slichtis quent;
For to have past abone the zodiak,
As quein and goddes of the firmament.
With goldin schours, as he did Clemene,
He wald this virgine furteouslie desave;
Bot I houp in the goddes Hemene,
Quhilk to hir brother so happie fortoun gave,
That scho sallbe exaltit by the laif,
Baith for hir bewtie and hir nobill bluid;
And of my self ane servand scho sall have
Vnto I die: and so I doe conclvid.
He wald this virgine furteouslie desave;
Bot I houp in the goddes Hemene,
Quhilk to hir brother so happie fortoun gave,
That scho sallbe exaltit by the laif,
Baith for hir bewtie and hir nobill bluid;
And of my self ane servand scho sall have
Vnto I die: and so I doe conclvid.
Finis quod A. Montgomerie.
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