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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Christ als is with thame, as Uicar generall,
Rewlar and gydar of the faithfull all,
Without quhais spreit no gude thing can be wrocht;
Without his help our strenth aualis nocht;
In him we leue and mouis quhill we indure,
It is he onlie, that taks on ws cure;
Thus none can saye, but Christ most certanlie
Is be his Spreit with ws contynewallie.
Rewlar and gydar of the faithfull all,
Without quhais spreit no gude thing can be wrocht;
Without his help our strenth aualis nocht;
In him we leue and mouis quhill we indure,
It is he onlie, that taks on ws cure;
Thus none can saye, but Christ most certanlie
Is be his Spreit with ws contynewallie.
So till his Kirk, Christ heir before his Passioun
Repeatis thir wourdis, to gyf thame consolatioun,
That tha in that suld nocht discuragit be
For his deperting frome thame corporallie,
Bot be his Spreit he promist stil support thame;
So on this wayis Christ Iesus did confort thame,
“Howbeit,” sayis he, “I am to passe abone;
“Ask quhat ȝe will, it sall to ȝow be done;
“Prouyding alwayis that ȝe constant be
“Abyding at my wourd of Uerite.”
Repeatis thir wourdis, to gyf thame consolatioun,
That tha in that suld nocht discuragit be
For his deperting frome thame corporallie,
Bot be his Spreit he promist stil support thame;
So on this wayis Christ Iesus did confort thame,
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“Ask quhat ȝe will, it sall to ȝow be done;
“Prouyding alwayis that ȝe constant be
“Abyding at my wourd of Uerite.”
| The minor poems of William Lauder | |