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 differs dearth frome creuell briganrye,
Quhen that ȝe mak the Pure for hunger dye?
No thing at all! most trewlie to conclude,
Except of thame ȝe do nocht draw the blude;
For ȝe contryne thame,—as wyse men merkis and seis,—
Till one of thir two grit Extremiteis:
Till vtter hirschip, with bying of thair fude;
And want tha money? than, schortlie to conclude,
Thair is no credeit, bot of Necessitie,
The Pure Broder, for Hunger he man die.
No thing at all! most trewlie to conclude,
Except of thame ȝe do nocht draw the blude;
For ȝe contryne thame,—as wyse men merkis and seis,—
Till one of thir two grit Extremiteis:
Till vtter hirschip, with bying of thair fude;
And want tha money? than, schortlie to conclude,
Thair is no credeit, bot of Necessitie,
The Pure Broder, for Hunger he man die.
| The minor poems of William Lauder | |