The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER XCIV. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
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CHAPTER XCIV.
Off a ferlifull barne borne,Off sic ane wes nane sene beforne.
Efter the dede of Damysyus
The pape of Rome Cericyus
Xi. monethis and xv. ȝere
And xx. dais thar to cleire
The se he held as pape of Rome.
The clerk in his tyme Sanct Ierome
Translatit þe Bibill of Hebrew;
And baith þe testamentis, ald and new,
He translatit in Latyne;
And in his dais Sanct Augustyne
Of new resauit Cristindome.
Quhen þis Syrycius wes pape of Rome
Sanct Ambross in þe awphonere
Antemmys maid and respondis seire,
And versiculis thare to he can write,
And ympnis alsua maid in dite,
And thai antemmys ordanit he
Amang thai psalmis said to be
At matinnis and at evinsang,
At pryme and houris all amang;
And on þis wise and þis manere
The seruice first begouth in qweire.
The pape of Rome Cericyus
Xi. monethis and xv. ȝere
And xx. dais thar to cleire
The se he held as pape of Rome.
The clerk in his tyme Sanct Ierome
Translatit þe Bibill of Hebrew;
And baith þe testamentis, ald and new,
He translatit in Latyne;
And in his dais Sanct Augustyne
Of new resauit Cristindome.
Quhen þis Syrycius wes pape of Rome
Sanct Ambross in þe awphonere
Antemmys maid and respondis seire,
And versiculis thare to he can write,
And ympnis alsua maid in dite,
And thai antemmys ordanit he
Amang thai psalmis said to be
At matinnis and at evinsang,
At pryme and houris all amang;
And on þis wise and þis manere
The seruice first begouth in qweire.
And in this tyme als þat I tell
In Emaus, quhare wes a castell,
A barne þar wes þat tyme y-borne
That sic ane wes nocht sene beforne;
For at þe navill haill it wes
And outwith þe navill diuisioun has,
With foure eyne and hedis twa,
Foure eris and foure browis alsua,
Twa mouthis and double chyne,
And doubill tuthit baith within;
Foure handis it had ȝit,
And twenty fyngeris and foure feit,
And xx. [tais] it had alsua;
Betuix þe theis ȝerdis twa;
And þus ay doubill in liknes
In to þat barne apperand wes,
For quhen the ta heid vsit to sleip
The toþer heid wald walk and weip,
And quhen þe tane wald vse till ete
Than wald þe toþer neuer ete;
And þus it liffit neire twa ȝere
Vpone þis wiss and þis manere,
And quhen þe tane wes dede away
The toþer liffit to the thrid day.
In Emaus, quhare wes a castell,
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That sic ane wes nocht sene beforne;
For at þe navill haill it wes
And outwith þe navill diuisioun has,
With foure eyne and hedis twa,
Foure eris and foure browis alsua,
Twa mouthis and double chyne,
And doubill tuthit baith within;
Foure handis it had ȝit,
And twenty fyngeris and foure feit,
And xx. [tais] it had alsua;
Betuix þe theis ȝerdis twa;
And þus ay doubill in liknes
In to þat barne apperand wes,
For quhen the ta heid vsit to sleip
The toþer heid wald walk and weip,
And quhen þe tane wald vse till ete
Than wald þe toþer neuer ete;
And þus it liffit neire twa ȝere
Vpone þis wiss and þis manere,
And quhen þe tane wes dede away
The toþer liffit to the thrid day.
Than wes Orosyus in his stait,
And his buke to Sanct Augustyne wrait.
Galiene syne and Graciane,
And his buke to Sanct Augustyne wrait.
And ȝoungare Valentynyane,
Off þe empyre þe ryalte
Foure ȝeris held amang þam thre.
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And his broþer Valentynyane,
And Theodosyus, all thre
Sex ȝeris held þat ryalte.
This Graciane efter syne
Come of weire till Argentyne,
And xxx. thousand in that ficht
Off his fais to deid he dicht,
Throu vertu of the Cristin fay
That he stedfastly held alway;
For in his tyme all Ytaly
Off Herryus held þe errasy,
Bot ȝit in till his dais he
Gert it all conuertit be.
He wes abill in letterature,
In meit and drink of gret mesoure,
All lust of body he oure come,
And endit weill in Cristindome.
| CHAPTER XCIV. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |