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 | Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century |  |
als recordis þis gregore,
quham-of I spak now before,
þat quhilis his predecessoure
with besynes & gret cure
nedlyns wald wyt quhare þe body
of þis religiouse martyre cane ly,
þane, þat was to þat ilke end,
gyf ocht fawtyt, It til amend.
& as þai socht, sudandely
þai fand quhare þe cors cane ly;
& al þat a-bout stud þare,
quhethyre þai leyryt ore lawit ware,
þat saw his body in þat sted,
In-to fyftende days þai ware dede.
þe cause cane I nocht tel of þus;
bot sume men sais he crabyt Is;
& als mycht hapnyt wele to be,
þai ware nocht worthy hyme to se.
quham-of I spak now before,
þat quhilis his predecessoure
with besynes & gret cure
nedlyns wald wyt quhare þe body
of þis religiouse martyre cane ly,
þane, þat was to þat ilke end,
gyf ocht fawtyt, It til amend.
& as þai socht, sudandely
þai fand quhare þe cors cane ly;
& al þat a-bout stud þare,
quhethyre þai leyryt ore lawit ware,
þat saw his body in þat sted,
In-to fyftende days þai ware dede.
þe cause cane I nocht tel of þus;
bot sume men sais he crabyt Is;
& als mycht hapnyt wele to be,
þai ware nocht worthy hyme to se.
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ymang al otheris als had he
specialis prewylege thre:
þe fyrst is, nane, bot he ane,
vigil has neuire nane;
þe todyre, þat wtes, as ȝe se,
of al vthyre martirys [ane] has he,
as martyne ymange confessoris
has wtes, with al hourys;
þe thred is, fore he has regress
In antemys, for he worthy vas
for his excellent passione
of marteris til haf þe crowne
next sancte stewine, þat can tak
martirdome for cristis sak.
& paule regres has þat wyse
In his antemys, as resone is,
for he in preching al þe laf
excedyt, þat lyf cane haf.
of þis martir nocht ellis I say,
bot hartly til hyme I pray,
owt of þis lyf þat I ma twyne
but schame, det, & de[d]ly syne.
specialis prewylege thre:
þe fyrst is, nane, bot he ane,
vigil has neuire nane;
þe todyre, þat wtes, as ȝe se,
of al vthyre martirys [ane] has he,
as martyne ymange confessoris
has wtes, with al hourys;
þe thred is, fore he has regress
In antemys, for he worthy vas
for his excellent passione
of marteris til haf þe crowne
next sancte stewine, þat can tak
martirdome for cristis sak.
& paule regres has þat wyse
In his antemys, as resone is,
for he in preching al þe laf
excedyt, þat lyf cane haf.
of þis martir nocht ellis I say,
bot hartly til hyme I pray,
owt of þis lyf þat I ma twyne
but schame, det, & de[d]ly syne.
| Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century | |