Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... As did thair cumly cristall eis. Thair properties for to repeit, My-dull ingine can not disclose, Thair hair like threeds of gold did gleit, Thair facis fragrant and formosc: White was thair hyd thocht it wes hid, Thair corall lips like rosis rid. Sick Parragons, but peir or maik, I wart wes never scene before, Na properties thir Nymphs did laik, Quhilk micht thair cumly corps decore: All gifts quhilk creaturs can clame, Dame nature in thair corps did frame. O Dioner that hes the place, And bears Dame bewties bell I say, And thou O Daphne fair of face, Quha was the God Apollos pray: Gif that thir Virgins had bene thair, He had esteemd thame meikill mair. O Evropa, as Poets schaws, Quhome Ivpiter did lufe indeid, He had acquite the for thair caus, Gif they had bene into thy steid: He had not faild this for to do, And Paris likwais Helen to. Had they bene set in Paris ficht, As wes the Goddesfis I mene, He He scarce culd have discernit richt, Quhome to the Apill did pertene: Sick equall gifts were in them lodgt, That thay culd skantlie weill be iudgt. Thir nobill Nymphis maid reuerence, With gesture liuely and allairt, And efter thair obedience, Hir Grace past to ane vther pairt: Quhair sche beheld sum to be schort, Acoutert in an sauadge sort. Into the seruice of our Queene, Thay offert thair maist willing mynds Thir are the Moirs of quhom I mene, Quha dois inhabit in the ynds: Leving thair land and dwelling place, For to do honour to hir Grace. Thay have na scant nor indigence, Quhair thay do dwell and haue exces, Nor zit thay haue na residence, With Phavnvs God of wildernes: Bot thay do dwell quhair thay wer wont, Beside Synerdas goldin mont. Thair precious Iewels till expreme, And costly clethings to discriue, My simple wit can not esteme, Agains the st...