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 XLVIII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Quhen Consules were chosin in Rome
To be haldaris of law and dome.
To be haldaris of law and dome.
After þe deid of Seruyus
In Rome þis proud Tarquineus
Regnyt, and þan Cirus king
Had of all Perss þe gouernyng.
He wes a man of gret fellony,
And vmbethocht him increly
With quhat torment thai mycht be
Punyst for þare iniquite,
As fetteris or presonyng,
Stokkis, boyis or bannysing.
He wes exild in his dais
Off Rome, as Frere Mertyne sais,
For his sonnis iniquite,
That had deforsit a lady fre,
A gentill woman and of gud fame,
Lucritia wes her proper name.
Scho plenȝeit till hir husband sone
Off the defoull þat wes hir done,
Till hir fader and hir kyne,
Till all syne at scho mycht wyne,
And leid hir a quhill in pyne,
And slew hir self for sorow syne.
And quhen þis proud Tarqueneus
Saw þat he wes exilit thus,
He knyt him þan to þe Tuskanis,
And with thaim werrayit the Romanis,
And with his oste apon a day
To Tyber he come in gud array,
And quhen thai saw his gret powere
The Romanis affrayit were,
Bot syne it happinnit þaim to be
Accordit weill be faire tretie.
In Rome þis proud Tarquineus
Regnyt, and þan Cirus king
Had of all Perss þe gouernyng.
He wes a man of gret fellony,
And vmbethocht him increly
With quhat torment thai mycht be
Punyst for þare iniquite,
As fetteris or presonyng,
Stokkis, boyis or bannysing.
He wes exild in his dais
Off Rome, as Frere Mertyne sais,
For his sonnis iniquite,
That had deforsit a lady fre,
A gentill woman and of gud fame,
Lucritia wes her proper name.
Scho plenȝeit till hir husband sone
Off the defoull þat wes hir done,
Till hir fader and hir kyne,
Till all syne at scho mycht wyne,
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And slew hir self for sorow syne.
And quhen þis proud Tarqueneus
Saw þat he wes exilit thus,
He knyt him þan to þe Tuskanis,
And with thaim werrayit the Romanis,
And with his oste apon a day
To Tyber he come in gud array,
And quhen thai saw his gret powere
The Romanis affrayit were,
Bot syne it happinnit þaim to be
Accordit weill be faire tretie.
Thir sevin kingis regnand were
Twa hunder full and fourty ȝere;
And fra thir kingis þus can cess
In Rome thai chesit twa consules,
And thai regne suld bot a ȝere,
For dout gif thai regnand were
Langere tyme, þat þare suld ryss
In lordschip on sa hawtane wiss
That the commonis willausly
Suld be greiffit throu þare mastry.
And twa wes ordanit for þis skill,
That gif þe tane wald set his will
For liking mesoure till exceid,
The toþer argew suld his deid,
And sagatis chastyit he suld be
Fra his wilfull iniquite.
Consules þus gatis thai maid twa,
Brute and Lucyus callit were þai.
Twa hunder full and fourty ȝere;
And fra thir kingis þus can cess
In Rome thai chesit twa consules,
And thai regne suld bot a ȝere,
For dout gif thai regnand were
Langere tyme, þat þare suld ryss
In lordschip on sa hawtane wiss
That the commonis willausly
Suld be greiffit throu þare mastry.
And twa wes ordanit for þis skill,
That gif þe tane wald set his will
For liking mesoure till exceid,
The toþer argew suld his deid,
And sagatis chastyit he suld be
Fra his wilfull iniquite.
Consules þus gatis thai maid twa,
Brute and Lucyus callit were þai.
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That tyme in Rome Pictogoras,
And þe wiss clerk als Socrates
The venome drank and poysonit were.
There cornykillis tellis þe manere;
And Arestotill of eild þan wes
Neire xviii. ȝeris, withoutin less,
And vnder Plato the witty
Studyit in to philosophy.
And þe wiss clerk als Socrates
The venome drank and poysonit were.
There cornykillis tellis þe manere;
And Arestotill of eild þan wes
Neire xviii. ȝeris, withoutin less,
And vnder Plato the witty
Studyit in to philosophy.
| CHAPTER XLVIII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |