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 XVII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
132
CHAPTER XVII.
Off Nynus king and frelage
That he gert do till ane ymage.
That he gert do till ane ymage.
Ane in auld tyme callit Benus,
That fader were to Nynus,
That wes king of Assyry,
His fader he luffit sa tenderly
That quhen he deit him befor,
For till haue of him memor,
All like his fader in figure
Ane ymage he maid in faire payntour;
That payntit ymage with colouris fyne,
In opyne he gert set syne,
Quhare comoune hant wes of repaire,
For to behald þat figure faire,
And gert oure all his lordschip cry
Quha to þat ymage deuotly
Wald cum for gyrth or ȝit saufte,
That nane suld sa hardy be
Him to distruble, tak or sla,
Or ony mannance till him ma,
For ony myss þat he had done,
Bot þare he suld haue succour sone,
Till þai within þe presens were
Off þat god of gret powere;
Othire be þis ensample syne
Off noble mater and of fyne,
Off þare freyndis þat were deid
Set up sic figuris in þare steid,
And gert do þaim sic honour
As þai had bene þar creatour.
Sum þai callit Bell of Baliall,
Sum Belȝebub, sum Baall;
And þus began first ydolatry
That we vse to call mawmentry.
That fader were to Nynus,
That wes king of Assyry,
His fader he luffit sa tenderly
That quhen he deit him befor,
For till haue of him memor,
All like his fader in figure
Ane ymage he maid in faire payntour;
That payntit ymage with colouris fyne,
In opyne he gert set syne,
Quhare comoune hant wes of repaire,
For to behald þat figure faire,
And gert oure all his lordschip cry
Quha to þat ymage deuotly
Wald cum for gyrth or ȝit saufte,
That nane suld sa hardy be
Him to distruble, tak or sla,
Or ony mannance till him ma,
For ony myss þat he had done,
Bot þare he suld haue succour sone,
Till þai within þe presens were
Off þat god of gret powere;
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Off noble mater and of fyne,
Off þare freyndis þat were deid
Set up sic figuris in þare steid,
And gert do þaim sic honour
As þai had bene þar creatour.
Sum þai callit Bell of Baliall,
Sum Belȝebub, sum Baall;
And þus began first ydolatry
That we vse to call mawmentry.
| CHAPTER XVII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |