The minor poems of William Lauder playwright, poet, and minister of the word of God, (mainly on the state of Scotland in and about 1568 A.D., that year of famine and plague) ... Edited from the unique originals belonging to S. Christie-Miller ... By F. J. Furnivall |
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Tha ar cum drye with Lust and carnall heit,
Because tha want the Sapour of the spreit
Of Christ Iesus, the Sauiour of man.
Wanting this Iusse, quhairfor ar tha meit than?
For nothing ellis,—the text it schewis plane,—
Bot to sustene of Hellis fyre the pane,
As Nero sufferit for his tirrannye,
And Pharao for his grit Ydolatrie,
And as the gluttoun quho refusit Lazarus,
With mony mo nor heir I may discus.
Because tha want the Sapour of the spreit
Of Christ Iesus, the Sauiour of man.
Wanting this Iusse, quhairfor ar tha meit than?
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Bot to sustene of Hellis fyre the pane,
As Nero sufferit for his tirrannye,
And Pharao for his grit Ydolatrie,
And as the gluttoun quho refusit Lazarus,
With mony mo nor heir I may discus.
| The minor poems of William Lauder | |