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 | Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century |  |
thane one þe morne petir can ta
clement, vyceta, & aquila,
& passit til a priwe place,
quhare he wend na man was,
quhare he & þai mare dewotly
mycht mak þare prayere Ithandly.
& quhene þai had in prayere bene
a quhyle, ane ald man haf þai sene,
honest but powre wes he,
& semyt gudman fore to be,
þat sad: “I haf pite of ȝow
þat semys wele þat erris now,
wenand þat ȝe wel do perchance;
fore nothyre god na purwiance,
na ocht quhare-In men suld affy,
bot chance ore fortone anerly
& þe course of manis gettynge
wyrkis al, & ellis na thing,
as be my-self wele prowit haf I,
as man wele tacht in metaphesy.
erris nocht þare-fore, I ȝow say!
suppos þat Ithandly ȝe pray,
sic fortone sal ȝe haf nedlinge,
as was ȝow talȝet in ȝoure getting.”
clement, vyceta, & aquila,
& passit til a priwe place,
quhare he wend na man was,
quhare he & þai mare dewotly
mycht mak þare prayere Ithandly.
& quhene þai had in prayere bene
a quhyle, ane ald man haf þai sene,
honest but powre wes he,
& semyt gudman fore to be,
þat sad: “I haf pite of ȝow
þat semys wele þat erris now,
wenand þat ȝe wel do perchance;
fore nothyre god na purwiance,
na ocht quhare-In men suld affy,
383
& þe course of manis gettynge
wyrkis al, & ellis na thing,
as be my-self wele prowit haf I,
as man wele tacht in metaphesy.
erris nocht þare-fore, I ȝow say!
suppos þat Ithandly ȝe pray,
sic fortone sal ȝe haf nedlinge,
as was ȝow talȝet in ȝoure getting.”
| Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century | |