Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas Coldwell |
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 | Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish verse |  |
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The Prolouge of the Secund Buke
Dyrk beyn my muse with dolorus armony.
Melpomene, on the wald clerkis call
Fortill compyle this dedly tragedy
Twiching of Troy the subuersioun and fall;
Bot sen I follow the poete principall,
Quhat nedis purches fenȝeit termys new?
God grant me grace hym dyngly to ensew!
Melpomene, on the wald clerkis call
Fortill compyle this dedly tragedy
Twiching of Troy the subuersioun and fall;
Bot sen I follow the poete principall,
Quhat nedis purches fenȝeit termys new?
God grant me grace hym dyngly to ensew!
The drery fait with terys lamentabill
Of Troys sege wydequhar our all is song,
Bot followand Virgil, gif my wit war abill,
Ane othir wyss now salt that bell berong
Than euer was tofor hard in our tong.
Saturn, thou auld fader of malancoly,
Thyne is the cuyr my wofull pen to gy.
Of Troys sege wydequhar our all is song,
Bot followand Virgil, gif my wit war abill,
Ane othir wyss now salt that bell berong
Than euer was tofor hard in our tong.
Saturn, thou auld fader of malancoly,
Thyne is the cuyr my wofull pen to gy.
Harkis, ladeis, ȝour bewte was the cawss;
Harkis, knychtis, the wod fury of Mart;
Wyss men, attendis mony sorofull clawss;
And, ȝe dyssavouris, reid heir ȝour proper art;
And fynaly, to specify euery part,
Heir verifeit is that proverbe teching so,
“All erdly glaidness fynysith with wo.”
Harkis, knychtis, the wod fury of Mart;
Wyss men, attendis mony sorofull clawss;
And, ȝe dyssavouris, reid heir ȝour proper art;
And fynaly, to specify euery part,
Heir verifeit is that proverbe teching so,
“All erdly glaidness fynysith with wo.”
Heir endis the proloug and begynnys the secund buke of Eneadoss.
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