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[Orpheus and Eurydice]

 
dc.contributor Watson, Harry D. Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
dc.contributor.author Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?
dc.contributor.editor Smith, G. Gregory (George Gregory), 1865-1932
dc.coverage.placeName Edinburgh
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T16:31:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-21T16:31:48Z
dc.date.created 1450-1506
dc.date.issued 1984-05-01
dc.identifier ota:2231
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2231
dc.description.abstract The Scottish Text Society's edition of The poems of Robert Henryson makes up three volumes of the Society's first series (55, 58, 64), of which the contents: Vol. I. Introduction, appendix, notes, index of words and glossary, general index -- v. II-III. Text
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dc.language Scots
dc.language.iso sco
dc.publisher University of Oxford
dc.relation.ispartof Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection
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dc.rights.label PUB
dc.subject.lcsh Poems -- Scotland -- 14th century
dc.subject.other Poems
dc.title [Orpheus and Eurydice]
dc.type Text
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<T HENR ORPH CHM 1>
<B HENR>
<KHORP 1>
<E HENR ORPH>
<D 1500A>
<DV 1508C>
<MRCT>
<Q ?FIFE>
<L 1>HEIR BEGYNNIS THE TRAITIE OF ORPHEUS KYNG AND
HOW HE YEID TO HEWYN AND TO HEL TO SEIK HIS QUENE AND
ANE OTHIR BALLAD IN THE LATTIR END.
<H ABABBCC>
<L 1>THE NOBILNES AND GRETE MAGNIFICENCE
OFF PRINCE OR LORD QUHA LIST TO MAGNIFY
HIS GRETE ANCESTER AND LINYALL DESCENSE
SULD FIRST EXTOLL AND HIS GENOLOGY
SO THAT HIS HERT HE MYCHT ENCLYNE THARE BY
THE MORE TO VERTU AND TO WORTHYNES
HERAND REHERSE HIS ELDIRS GENTILNES
IT IS CONTRAIR THE LAWIS OF NATURE
A GENTILL MAN TO BE DEGENERATE
<L 10>NOUCHT FOLOWING OF HIS PROGENITOURE
THE WORTHY REULE AND THE LORDLY ESTATE
A RYALL RENK FOR TO BE RUSTICATE
IS BOT A MONSTER IN COMPARISON
HAD IN DESPYTE AND FOULE DERISION
I SAY THIS BE THE GRETE LORDIS OF GREWE
QUHILK SETT THAIR HERT AND ALL THAIR HALE CURAGE
THAIR FADIRS STEPPIS IUSTLY TO PERSEWE
EKING THE WORSCHIP OF THAIR HYE LYNAGE
THE ANCIENT AND SAD WYSE-MEN OF AGE
<L 20>WAR TENDOURIS TO THE YONG AND IN . . .
										

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