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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THE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THE FIRST HEAD.
So now returnand till our first head agane,
Aduert, and ȝe sall heir the crewell pane,
The sorrowfull Sentence and terribill decreit,
In to few wourdis ar heir contenit compleit,
That is prepaird for wekit Creaturs,
And vicius men that in to Uice indurs.
Aduert, and ȝe sall heir the crewell pane,
The sorrowfull Sentence and terribill decreit,
In to few wourdis ar heir contenit compleit,
That is prepaird for wekit Creaturs,
And vicius men that in to Uice indurs.
For thame that drownd ar in Idolatrie,
For poysond pepill with Infidelytie,
For stif contemnars of gods lyuelie wourd,
This suthfast Sentence; allace, it is no bourd!
For poysond pepill with Infidelytie,
For stif contemnars of gods lyuelie wourd,
This suthfast Sentence; allace, it is no bourd!
It is no Sentence be Man retreattabill,
It is no Sentence be man debaittabill,
It nowthair sparis King nor Empriour,
Duke, Erll, Lord, nor pussant Conquyrour;
It nowthair sparis mychtie men nor pure,
That of the wourd of God doith tak no cure;
Bot is ane Sentence quhilk none can do eschew
That dois contem the wourd of Christ Iesu.
This Sentence merkit, the pepill we discus
That doith nocht abyde in Christ Iesus.
It is no Sentence be man debaittabill,
It nowthair sparis King nor Empriour,
Duke, Erll, Lord, nor pussant Conquyrour;
It nowthair sparis mychtie men nor pure,
That of the wourd of God doith tak no cure;
Bot is ane Sentence quhilk none can do eschew
That dois contem the wourd of Christ Iesu.
This Sentence merkit, the pepill we discus
That doith nocht abyde in Christ Iesus.
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