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 | Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century |  |
[i]n haly wryt I herde neuere rede,
sen I fyrst þare-to tuk hede,
þat man for Ioy to Ioy suld fare
for-oute It þat diseseful ware
as to þis fleschly delyt,
na ȝet þat man mycht haf meryt
for-out examinacione
& wardly tribulacione,
as seknes or disese sere
þat men tholis til þai are here. [OMITTED]
for wondir war [þat] man suld wyne
til hewine þat is chargit in syne,
as to þe treutht treuth of haly kyrk;
bot quhat he wil he ma wirk.
þar-by ensampil wil I tel
þat til a knycht quhil befel,
to quham god ferlifully
kythit his mychtis & his mercy,
be reknyng ewine a hundreth ȝere
fra criste wes born of mary dere.
sen I fyrst þare-to tuk hede,
þat man for Ioy to Ioy suld fare
for-oute It þat diseseful ware
as to þis fleschly delyt,
na ȝet þat man mycht haf meryt
for-out examinacione
& wardly tribulacione,
as seknes or disese sere
þat men tholis til þai are here. [OMITTED]
for wondir war [þat] man suld wyne
til hewine þat is chargit in syne,
as to þe treutht treuth of haly kyrk;
bot quhat he wil he ma wirk.
þar-by ensampil wil I tel
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to quham god ferlifully
kythit his mychtis & his mercy,
be reknyng ewine a hundreth ȝere
fra criste wes born of mary dere.
| Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century | |