William Dunbar: I that in heill wes and gladnes


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94	1	I that in heill wes and gladnes
	2	Am trublit now with gret seiknes,
	3	And feblit with infermite:
	4	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	5	Our plesance heir is all vane glory,
	6	This fals warld is bot transitory,
	7	The flesch is brukle, the fend is sle:
	8	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	9	The stait of man dois change and vary,
	10	Now sound, now seik, now blith, now sary,
	11	Now dansand mery, now like to dee:
	12	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	13	No stait in erd heir standis sickir.
	14	As with the wynd wavis the wickir,
	15	So waueris this warldis vanite:
	16	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	17	On to the ded gois all estatis,
	18	Princis, prelotis and potestatis,
	19	Baith riche and pur of al degre:
	20	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	21	He takis the knychtis in to feild,
	22	Anarmyt vnder helme and scheild.
	23	Wictour he is at all melle:
	24	Timor mortis conturbat me.
95	25	That sprang vnmercifull tyrand
	26	Takis on the moderis breist sowkand
	27	The bab full of benignite:
	28	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	29	He takis the campion in the stour,
	30	The capitane closit in the tour,
	31	The lady in bour full of bewte:
	32	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	33	He sparis no lord for his piscence,
	34	Na clerk for his intelligence;
	35	His awfull strak may no man fle:
	36	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	37	Art magicianis and astrologgis,
	38	Rethoris, logicianis and theologgis,
	39	Thame helpis no conclusionis sle:
	40	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	41	In medicyne the most practicianis,
	42	Lechis, surrigianis and phisicianis,
	43	Thame self fra ded may not supple:
	44	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	45	I se that makaris, amang the laif,
	46	Playis heir ther pad#anis, syne gois to graif.
	47	Sparit is nought ther faculte:
	48	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	49	He has done petuously devour
	50	The noble Chaucer, of makaris flour.
96	51	The monk of Bery and Gower, all thre:
	52	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	53	The gud syr Hew of Eglintoun,
	54	And eik Heryot and Wyntoun
	55	he has tane out of this cuntre:
	56	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	57	That scorpion fell has done infek
	58	Maister Iohne Clerk and Iames Afflek
	59	Fra balat making and trigide:
	60	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	61	Holland and Barbour he has berevit.
	62	Allace, that he nought with ws lewit
	63	Schir Mungo Lockert of the Le:
	64	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	65	Clerk of Tranent eik he has tane,
	66	That maid the anteris of Gawane.
	67	Schir Gilbert Hay endit has he:
	68	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	69	He has blind Hary and Sandy Traill
	70	Slaine with his schour of mortall haill,
	71	Quhilk Patrik Iohnestoun myght nought fle:
	72	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	73	he has reft Merseir his endite,
	74	That did in luf so lifly write,
	75	So schort, so quyk, of sentence hie:
	76	Timor mortis conturbat me.
97	77	He has tane Roull of Aberdene
	78	And gentill Roull of Corstorphin,
	79	Two better fallowis did no man se:
	80	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	81	In Dunfermelyne he has done rovne
	82	With maister Robert Henrisoun.
	83	Schir Iohne the Ros enbrast has he:
	84	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	85	And he has now tane, last of aw,
	86	Gud gentill Stobo and Quintyne Schaw,
	87	Of quham all wichtis has pete:
	88	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	89	Gud maister Walter Kennedy
	90	In poynt of dede lyis veraly.
	91	Gret reuth it wer that so suld be:
	92	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	93	Sen he has all my brether tane
	94	He will naught lat me lif alane.
	95	On forse I man his nyxt pray be:
	96	Timor mortis conturbat me.
	97	Sen for the ded remeid is none,
	98	Best is that we for dede dispone,
	99	Efter our deid that lif may we:
	100	Timor mortis conturbat me.

