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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For mony ane tyme, and daylie it is sene,
How sic vile harlotis for Hurdome Plagit bene
With most extreme and vrgent pouertie,
Quhilk sumtyme had of ryches grit plentie;
Sumtyme with maist detestebill odious schame,
Loyssing for euer thair honour and thair fame,
And sumtyme plagit be God with suddand dead;
But quho that list with wisedome to take head,
May daylie merk, and als perfytlie se,
The Harlotis oftymes plagit with all thre.
How sic vile harlotis for Hurdome Plagit bene
With most extreme and vrgent pouertie,
Quhilk sumtyme had of ryches grit plentie;
Sumtyme with maist detestebill odious schame,
Loyssing for euer thair honour and thair fame,
And sumtyme plagit be God with suddand dead;
But quho that list with wisedome to take head,
May daylie merk, and als perfytlie se,
The Harlotis oftymes plagit with all thre.
| The minor poems of William Lauder | |