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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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It is the Spreit that quyknis auld and ȝing;
The corporall flesche, it proffittis no thing:
“Without,” sayis Christ, “my body do ascend,
The Confortour to ȝow I can nocht send.”