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 | Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century |  |
quhar a gentill ȝong man but bad
come, & with hyme duelling mad,
Agane þe will of all his kyne;
And þai þan in dispyt of hyme,
In fyre þe house set, quhar þai twa
þare lugyne in þe towne can ma.
quhen þe fyre was all one hycht,
withine & out was brynnand brycht,
þe young man hynt deliuerly
a wattir crowat, stud hyme by,
& kist wpwart agane þe bles,
& swyth þe gret fyre can he mes.
þane þat ȝong manis kyne in hy
sad, he was wechyt, sekyrly!
& ledderis dressit apone hicht
to get in; bot þai tynt þe sycht,
& mycht nomare do, as for þane.
for-þi of his kyne sad a man:
“we do foly, þat wirkis þus;
for god with þame is agains ws.
þarfor sesss all, for dout þat he
confundis [vs] for our cruelte!”
& fele of þame, þat þis has sene,
be-come cristine throu baptysing.
bot all þe kyne of þis ȝong man,
fra fyfty dais war gan fra þan,
deide, & in a grawe war dycht,
for þare trespas, throu goddis mycht.
come, & with hyme duelling mad,
Agane þe will of all his kyne;
And þai þan in dispyt of hyme,
In fyre þe house set, quhar þai twa
þare lugyne in þe towne can ma.
quhen þe fyre was all one hycht,
withine & out was brynnand brycht,
þe young man hynt deliuerly
65
& kist wpwart agane þe bles,
& swyth þe gret fyre can he mes.
þane þat ȝong manis kyne in hy
sad, he was wechyt, sekyrly!
& ledderis dressit apone hicht
to get in; bot þai tynt þe sycht,
& mycht nomare do, as for þane.
for-þi of his kyne sad a man:
“we do foly, þat wirkis þus;
for god with þame is agains ws.
þarfor sesss all, for dout þat he
confundis [vs] for our cruelte!”
& fele of þame, þat þis has sene,
be-come cristine throu baptysing.
bot all þe kyne of þis ȝong man,
fra fyfty dais war gan fra þan,
deide, & in a grawe war dycht,
for þare trespas, throu goddis mycht.
| Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century | |