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16th century poems

from The Cherrie and The Slae - by Alexander Montgomerie

{ Poem }

About ane bank, where birds on bewis
/ Ten thousand times their notis renewis
/ Ilk hour into the day,
/ The…

‘Be mery, man, and tak nocht fer in mynd’ - by William Dunbar

{ Poem }

Be mery, man, and tak nocht fer in mynd
/ The wavering of this wrechit vale of sorrow.
/ To God be huimle and…

‘Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun’ - by William Dunbar

{ Poem }

Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun,
/ Lat Edinburgh, your nobill toun,
/ For laik of reformatioun
/ The commone proffeitt tyine, and…

‘In to thir dirk and drublie dayis’ - by William Dunbar

{ Poem }

In to thir dirk and drublie dayis,
/ Quhone sabill all the Hevin arrayis
/ With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
/ Nature all curage me…

Sonet of Venus and Cupid - by Mark Alexander Boyd

{ Poem }

Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin
/ Ourhailit with my feble fantasie,
/ Lyk til a leif that…

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