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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
Lauder, William (1520?-1573)

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Ane Godlie Tractate Or Mirrour.
  
The Contentis of this Buke.
  
THE DIUISIOUN OF THE TEXT.
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[THE FIRST HEAD.]
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THE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THE FIRST HEAD.
  
ANE GENERALL DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN CHRIST.
  
ANE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME IN SPECIALL THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN TO CHRIST.
  
OF THE GREUOUS TORMENTIS PREORDINAT FOR THE WEKIT.
  
THE EXHORTATIOUN VPON THE FIRST HEAD.
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[THE SECOND HEAD.]
  
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THE FIRST COMMODITE OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN TO CHRIST.
  
ANE QUESTIOUN DIRECT TO ALL PAPISTIS, DEMANDING GYF CHRIST CAN BE SEPARET FROME THE FAITHFULL.
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THE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THE SECUND COMMODITIE OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN CHRIST.
  
ANE EXCLAMATIOUN AGANIS ALL FENȜEIT YPOCREITIS, AND SPECIALLIE AGANIS ALL GREDIE DISSEMBLIT FALS PROTESTANTES.
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FOLLOWIS THE THRID PROFFIT OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN TO CHRIST.
  
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The Lamenta[t]ioun OF THE PURE. TWICHING THE MISERABILL ESTAIT OF THIS PRESENT WARLD.
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Ane prettie Mirrour Or Conference, betuix the faithfull Protestant and the Dissemblit false Hypocreit.
  
To the faithful Reder.
  
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Ane trew & breue Sentencius Discriptioun of ye nature of Scotland Twiching the Interteinment of virtewus men That laketh Ryches.
  
Ane GVDE EXEMPILL. BE THE BUTTERFLIE, INSTRUCTING MEN TO HAIT ALL HARLOTTRIE.

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Ȝit nocht wil mak thame from thair sin refrane,

Gal. v.


Quhill Saule & bodie be damnit to hellis pane.

Apoc. x[iv.]


For tha perceaue nocht that thair Miserie,

i Cor. [iii.]


Dois licht on thame for thair Iniquytie.

Heb. xi[i.]


Bot rycht as Pharao on Godis plaigs wald not pance,
Bot thocht tha come be fortune & be chance,
No moir the Harlot can think his hart within,
That God dois plaig him for his filthie Sin,
And so as Palȝeartis in Peltrie perseueiris,
Quhill of thair strenth consumit be the ȝeris.
The pure Plewmen & laubouraris of ȝour lands,
Quhen tha haue nocht to fill ȝour gredie hands,
Quhair ȝe can spye ane man to geue ȝow mair,
Ȝe schute thame furth; syne puts ane vthir thair.
Howbeit the first haue Barnis aucht or nyne,
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Ȝe tak no thocht, thocht man and all sulde tyne;
Within few ȝeris ȝe herye him also,
Syne puts him furth; to beggin most he go;
Thus schift ȝe our, in to most gredie wyse,
The quhilk ane Uengeance frome the Heauin cryis.
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