Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas Coldwell |
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 | Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish verse |  |
Eneas first excusys hym, and syne
Addressis to reherss Troys rewyne.
Thai cessit all atanys incontinent
Addressis to reherss Troys rewyne.
With mouthis closs and vissage takand tent.
Prince Eneas, from the hie bed, with that,
Into hys sege ryall quhar he sat,
Begouth and sayd, “Thi desyre, lady, is
Renewing of ontellabill sorow, I wyss,
To schaw how Grekis dyd spulȝe and distroy
The gret rychess and lamentabill realm of Troy,
And huge mysery quhilk I thar beheld
(Quharof myself a gret part bayr and feld),
Quhat Myrmydon or Gregion Dolopes
Or knycht wageor to cruel Vlixes—
Sik materis to reherss or ȝit to heir,
Mycht thame conteyn fra weping mony a teir?
And now the hevin ourquhelmys the donk nycht,
Quhen the declynyng of the sternys brycht
To sleip and rest perswadis our appetite.
Bot sen thou hast sic plesour and delyte
To knaw our chancis and fal of Troy in weyr,
And schortly the last end tharof wald heir,
Albeit my spreit abhorris and doith gryss
Tharon forto remembir, and oftsyss
Murnand eschewis tharfra with gret dyseyss,
Ȝit than I sal begyn ȝow forto pleyss.”
| Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish verse | |