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 CLII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
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CHAPTER CLII.
How Wyntoun him excusis fra wyte,
And schawis als quhat he couþ dyte.
And schawis als quhat he couþ dyte.
Heyre Wyntoune poyntis in his dyte
Quhat he gert of þis tretiss write,
That callit is Originall,
Be his study and his travale,
Thocht it be sympill, as ȝe se.
In vii. bukis tretit has he
Out of Latyne in oure langage,
That quha will may haif full knawlege,
Quhat space of ȝeris wes gane beforne
Or Davy þe Bruss our king wes borne:
Sex thousand and five hundreth ȝere,
Twenty þarto, or þarby neire,
Fra þe warldis begynnyng,
Quhill he wes borne to be our king.
Quhat he gert of þis tretiss write,
That callit is Originall,
Be his study and his travale,
Thocht it be sympill, as ȝe se.
In vii. bukis tretit has he
Out of Latyne in oure langage,
That quha will may haif full knawlege,
Quhat space of ȝeris wes gane beforne
Or Davy þe Bruss our king wes borne:
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Twenty þarto, or þarby neire,
Fra þe warldis begynnyng,
Quhill he wes borne to be our king.
And for he wald vsurp na fame,
Ware þan he seruit nor ȝit na blame
To beire, forthy in þis poyntment
He him excusis; in þat entent
He specifyis and makis knawin
He cuvatis na mare na his avne,
Na maire to desyre of meid
Than he deseruit in to deid,
In þis present memoriall
Lestand to be perpetuall.
Till his purposs accordand,
As he befor him writtin fand,
That in King Davyis dais wes done
The Bruss, or Robert his sister sone.
Quhat þai did, he wist rycht nocht;
Bot, as he fand in writt, he socht,
And syne in till þat samyn dyte
Consequent he gert writt
As he saw þame apperand
To be per ordre followand.
Ware þan he seruit nor ȝit na blame
To beire, forthy in þis poyntment
He him excusis; in þat entent
He specifyis and makis knawin
He cuvatis na mare na his avne,
Na maire to desyre of meid
Than he deseruit in to deid,
In þis present memoriall
Lestand to be perpetuall.
Till his purposs accordand,
As he befor him writtin fand,
That in King Davyis dais wes done
The Bruss, or Robert his sister sone.
Quhat þai did, he wist rycht nocht;
Bot, as he fand in writt, he socht,
And syne in till þat samyn dyte
Consequent he gert writt
As he saw þame apperand
To be per ordre followand.
| CHAPTER CLII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |