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Poems of John Stewart of Baldyneiss

From the MS. in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh: Edited by Thomas Crockett
Stewart, John

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Ane abbregement of roland furiovs translait ovt of Ariost, togither vith svm rapsodies of the authors ȝovthfvll braine, And last ane schersing ovt of trew felicitie, composit in scotis meitir be J. Stewart of Baldynneis.
  
[Sir, haifing red ȝour maiesteis maist prudent]
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RAPSODIES OF THE AVTHORS ȜOVTHFVLL BRAINE.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE.
  
ANE PRAYER IN ADVERSETIE.
  
ANE PRAYER AND THANKISGIWING.
  
TO ANE HONORABILL AND DISTRESSIT LADIE.
  
TO HIS RYCHT INTEIRLIE BELOWIT FREIND.
  
IN NAME OF ANE AMORUS LADIE.
  
THE AUTHOR VITH DERECTION HEIROF TO THE FOIRSAID LADIE.
  
THE AUTHORS ADWYCE TO THE FOIRSAID LADIE.
  
TO ANE HONORABILL LADIE
  
IN THE END OF ANE LETTER TO ANE HONORABILL LADIE.
  
TO HIS FAMILIAR FRIEND IN COWRT.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE IN FASCHERIE.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE THE FIRST OF IANVAR. 1582.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE THE FIRST OF IANVAR VITH PRESENTATION OF ANE LAWRELL TRIE FORMIT OF GOULD.
  
AT COMMAND OF HIS MAIESTIE IN PRAISE OF THE ART OF POŒSIE.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE THE DAY OF HIS CORONATION VITH LAURELL.
  
IN NAME OF ANE LOYALE LADIE.
  
IN NAME OF SUM GUID LADIES VPON THE VATER OF FORTH TO ANE HONORABLE PERSON QUHO CONWOYT THAM TO THE SCHOIR.
  
IN PRAISE OF LUIF AT THE DESYRE OF ANE NOBILE LADIE.
  
TO HIS AWIN MAISTRES.
  
IN COMMENDATIONE OF HIS LUIFING FREIND.
  
ANE ANSUEIR TO THE LETTER OF ANE HONORABILL LADIE.
  
IN COMMENDATION OF TVO CONSTANT LVIFERS.
  
TO HIS DARREST FREIND
  
TO HIS MAISTRES
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE.
  
[Ane New sort of rymand rym]
  
OF ANE FONTANE.
  
QVADRAIN.
  
TO ECHO OF INVART HAVINES.
  
OF AMBITIOUS MEN.
  
VPONE THE PORTRAIT OF CVPID.
  
OF THE QVALITEIS OF LVIF.
  
[Thir verse disschyphre rycht as I tham bind]
  
IN PRAISE OF HIS MAIESTEIS VORK.
  
TO THE FORMER EFFECT.
  
TO THE FORMER EFFECT.
  
TO THE FORMER EFFECT.
  
QVADRAIN.
  
OF TREWTH.
  
IN PRAISE OF HIS FREINDS VORK.
  
OF ANE SYMMER HOUS.
  
FOR CONFIRMING OF ANE FAITHFULL PROMEIS.
  
TO HIS WEILBELOWIT COWSIN AND LUIFING FREIND.
  
OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF COLORS.
  
ANE REPLY TO ANE LETTIR DERECT FROM HIS VEILBELOUIT COUSIN.
  
TUITCHING THE COMMODITIE OF TROWBILL.
  
TO HIS FAITHFVLL AND WEILWILLING FREIND.
  
OF FIDELITIE.
  
TO HIS MAISTRES.
  
OF AMITIE.
  
QVADRAIN.
  
OF CHASTITIE.
  
OF ANE SALUTATION OF ANE HOST TO HIS HOSTES.
  
THE ANSUIR OF THE FOIRSAID HOSTES.
  
OF THE ASSAULTIS OF LUIF.
  
OF DETH.
  
QVADRAIN.
  
ANE LITERALL SONNET.
  
OF ANE CERTANE COURTEOUR. QUADRAIN.
  
OF ANE THOCHTLES AND FRIE HART FROM VORLDLIE CAIR.
  
IN GOING TO HIS LUIF.
  
OF ANE POET.
  
AGAINE OF ANE POET.
  
TO FAME.
  
TO HIS MAIESTIE VITH PRESENTATION OF THIS VOLUME.
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ANE SCHERSING OVT OF TREW FELICITIE.
  
HIS FAIRWEILL TO THE MUSIS.

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IN COMMENDATION OF TVO CONSTANT LVIFERS.

In dyuers volums haif I don reuolwe
Quhow constant luif hes purchest hich commend.
Be tym all thingis erdlie dois dissolwe,
Bot onlie luif for luif Sould haif no end.
Quhair luifers luif till honest luif dois tend,
Syn in effect firm fund And stabill trew,
All vordie vychts sould schortlie condiscend
To rander tham renoune for guerden dew.
Spreits of pernass, than pouss my pen ane space
To praise Quhair praise deseruit dois abound.
O brycht Apollo, vith thy schyning face,
Thy harp deuyn this subiect sueit sould sound,
That throch the heawenis hichlie mycht redound
Sutche mychtie mater vith Immortall gloir:
Of tuo I mein, Quhois ampill luif profound
Be way of vertew growith moir and moir.
The nobill nature deulie to defyn
In him And hir quhilk plainlie dois appeir
I haif guidwill, Bot sclender skill of myn
May clipse that lycht Quhilk schyns in both so cleir.
The fyrie fyn and pretious diamant deir,
Or perfyt perll Thair self preclair vill schaw:
Than vith my langage neids me navayis heir
To blaise thair praise of quhom thir lyns I draw.
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for fauor feruent, And for famus fame,
for stedfast mynd, And vprycht vertew rair
His comlie front may crounit be but blame
Vith lawrell hich And Myrtle branchis fair.
In the obtening of his luif preclair
He compast hes In to his pregnant spreit
Als monie vayis vith dalie constant cair
As vilsum vas in laborinthe of Creit.
And Scho againe of qualitie perfyt
In luif elects him for hir onlie chois,
for lyk vith lyk dois communlie delyt,
So lyklihod hes so conIonit thois
That fortouns force may not thair luif dispois,
king Cupids craft, nor venus vanton vill,
Minerua so dois in tham both reiois,
Quha hes tham linkit vith hir sacred skill.
Than Mychtie Iowe, And velthie Iuno queine,
Ȝour godlie gifts vpon thir tuo Incres:
Confound the sycht of all Inuyous eine,
That dois desyre to sie thair luif grow les:
Tham both auance And all thair fois suppres
from tym to tym perpetuall to the end:
In euerie thing grant tham ane guid succes
To perseueir in thair begun commend.
Gif hich Ingyns be curius for to knaw
The persons both quhombie my pen dois meine,
Spy veill, And thay thair semlie selfs sall schaw
Be luiflie blinkis of thair amorus eine:
Thair vertew rair Or els thair beutie scheine
May tham discrywe, Bot gif ȝe ȝit forway,
Behold Rosmarie Spring and lustie greine,
Bebatht vith vapor of the morning Gray.
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