William Dunbar: Schir, #it remember as befoir

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225	1	Schir, #it remember as befoir
	2	How that my #outhe is done forloir
	3	In #our seruice with oane and greiff.
	4	Gud conscience cryis reward thairfoir.
	5	Exces of thocht dois me mischeif.
	6	#our clarkis ar servit all aboute
	7	And I do lyke ane rid halk schout,
	8	To cum to lure that hes na leif,
	9	Quhair my plwmis begynnis to mowt.
	10	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	11	For#et is ay the falcounis kynd,
	12	Bot ever the myttell is hard in mynd;
	13	Quhone the gled dois the peirtrikis preiff
	14	The gentill goishalk gois vndynd.
	15	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	16	The pyat withe the pairtie cote
	17	Feyn#eis to sing the nychtingale note,
	18	Bot scho can not the corchet cleiff
	19	For hasknes of hir carleche throte.
	20	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	21	Ay fairast feddiris hes farrest foulis.
	22	Suppois thai haue na sang bot #owlis,
	23	In syluer caiges thai sit but greif.
226	24	Kynd native nestis dois clek bot owlis.
	25	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	26	O gentill egill, how may this be,
	27	Quhilk of all foulis dois heast fle?
	28	#our leggis quhy do #e not releif
	29	And chirreis thame eftir thair degre?
	30	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	31	Quhone servit is all vther man,
	32	Gentill and sempill of everie clan,
	33	Raf Coil#earis kynd and Iohnne the Reif,
	34	No thing I gett nor conqueis can.
	35	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	36	Thocht I in courte be maid refuse
	37	And haue few vertewis for to ruse,
	38	#it am I cum of Adame and Eve
	39	And fane wald leif as vtheris dois.
	40	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	41	Or I suld leif in sic mischance,
	42	Giff it to God war na grevance,
	43	To be ane pykthank I wald preif,
	44	For thai in warld wantis na plesance.
	45	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	46	In sum pairt of my selffe I plein#e:
	47	Quhone vtheris dois flattir and feyn#e,
	48	Allace, I can bot ballatis breif.
	49	Sic barnheid leidis my brydill reyn#e.
	50	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
227	51	I grant my seruice is bot lycht.
	52	Thairfoir, of mercye and not of rycht,
	53	I ask #ou, schir, no man to greiff,
	54	Sum medecyne gif that #e mycht.
	55	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	56	Nane can remeid my maledie
	57	Sa weill as #e, schir, veralie.
	58	With ane benefice #e may preiff,
	59	And gif I mend not haistalie,
	60	Exces of thocht dois me mischeif.
	61	I wes in #outhe on nwreice kne
	62	Cald dandillie, bischop, dandillie.
	63	And quhone that age now dois me greif
	64	A sempill vicar I can not be.
	65	Exces of thocht dois me mischeif.
	66	Iok that wes wont to keip the stirkis
	67	Can now draw him ane cleik of kikis,
	68	With ane fals cairt in to his sleif,
	69	Worthe all my ballatis vnder the byrkis.
	70	Exces of thocht dois me mischeif.
	71	Twa curis on thre hes vplandis Michell,
	72	With dispensationis in ane knitchell,
	73	Thocht he fra nolt had new tane leif.
	74	He playis with totum and I with nychell
	75	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	76	How sould I leif, and I not landit
	77	Nor #it withe benefice am blandit?
	78	I say not, schir, #ow to repreiff,
228	79	Bot doutles I go rycht neirhand it.
	80	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.
	81	As saule in to purgatorie,
	82	Leifand in pane with hoip of glorie,
	83	So is my selffe, #e may beleiff,
	84	In hoip, schir, of #our adiutorie.
	85	Exces of thocht dois me mischeiff.



