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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TO THE REDAR.
All faithfull, herkin, & to my wordis attend,
And ernistlie do merk thame til ane end;
Ponder thame weill, and wey thaim in ȝour hart;
Ilk stait of man, consider ȝour awin part,
And Iudge me nocht, that I haue done indyte
This lytle Tractate of malice or dispyte,
Bot for ane warnyng to the impenitent,
And for the confort of thame that doth repent,
As may all faithfull graip, and als considder,
Layand the Text and this my werk togidder,
And ernistlie do merk thame til ane end;
Ponder thame weill, and wey thaim in ȝour hart;
Ilk stait of man, consider ȝour awin part,
And Iudge me nocht, that I haue done indyte
This lytle Tractate of malice or dispyte,
Bot for ane warnyng to the impenitent,
And for the confort of thame that doth repent,
As may all faithfull graip, and als considder,
Layand the Text and this my werk togidder,
Humblie exhorting euerie Creature,
Learnd, vnlearnd, auld, ȝung, ryche and pure,
To take heirfor my sayings in gude part,
Sen I do write thame of ane zealus hart,
As God me Iudge, quho knawis the mynd & thocht
Of euerye wicht that in this warld is wrocht.
So to my Text now breuelie to proceid,
Grit God me help, and with his spreit me speid!
Learnd, vnlearnd, auld, ȝung, ryche and pure,
To take heirfor my sayings in gude part,
Sen I do write thame of ane zealus hart,
As God me Iudge, quho knawis the mynd & thocht
Of euerye wicht that in this warld is wrocht.
So to my Text now breuelie to proceid,
Grit God me help, and with his spreit me speid!
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