The minor poems of William Lauder playwright, poet, and minister of the word of God, (mainly on the state of Scotland in and about 1568 A.D., that year of famine and plague) ... Edited from the unique originals belonging to S. Christie-Miller ... By F. J. Furnivall |
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Quhat better thing can man seik for his hyre,
Nor get all thing he Iustlie will desyre?
No better thing can onye crayf or wys,
In to this earth on lyfe that leuing is,
Nor haue all thingis to thame performit and done
That Godlie is, be the grit God abone,
For the imbrasing of his wourd most trew,
And so to be Ingraft in Christ Iesu.
I compt thame daft, and mekill wors nor mad,
That laykis this gift, so lichtlie may be had,
Sekand the sam vpon ane vther ground,
Quhilk be no vther maner can be found.
Nor get all thing he Iustlie will desyre?
No better thing can onye crayf or wys,
In to this earth on lyfe that leuing is,
Nor haue all thingis to thame performit and done
That Godlie is, be the grit God abone,
For the imbrasing of his wourd most trew,
And so to be Ingraft in Christ Iesu.
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That laykis this gift, so lichtlie may be had,
Sekand the sam vpon ane vther ground,
Quhilk be no vther maner can be found.
| The minor poems of William Lauder | |