Ane dialog betuix Experience and ane courteour off the miserabyll estait of the warld. Compylit be Schir Dauid Lyndesay of ye Mont Knycht alias, Lyone Kyng of Armes. And is deuidit in foure partis. As efter followis. .&c.

Author: Lindsay, David, Sir, fl. 1490-1555.1554

❧ Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour.

Off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld.

☞ Compylit be Schir Dauid Lyndesay of ye Mont Knycht alias, Lyone Kyng of Armes. And is Deuidit in Foure Partis. As efter Followis. .&c.

And Imprentit at the Conmand and Expensis off Doctor, MACHABEVS, In Copmāhouin.

Absit Gloriari, Nisi in Cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi,

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THE EPISTIL.

[figure] THOV Lytil quair, of mat miserabyll
Weil auchtest yu, couerit to be wt sabyl
renūceād grene ye purpur reid & quhit
To delicat mē, yu art nocht delectabyll
Nor ȝit tyll amorous folkis amiabyll
To reid on the, thai wyl haif no delite
Warldlye Peple, wyll haue at the dispyte
Quhilk fyxit hes thare hart, and hole intentis
On Sensuall Luste, on Dignitie, and Rentis.

¶We haue no Kyng, the to present allace.
Quhilk to this countre, bene ane cairfull care
And als our Quene, of Scotland Heretour
Sche dwellith ī France, I pray God saif hir gra­ce
It war to lang, for the to ryn that race
And far langar, or that ȝoung tender flour
Bryng home tyll ws, ane Kyng and Gouernour,
Allace tharefor, we may with sorrow syng
Quhilk moste so lang, remane without one kyng

☞ I nott quhome to thy Simpylnes to sende.
With Cunnyg Men, frome tyme that yu be kende
Thy Vaniteis, no waye thay wyll aduance
Thynkand the proude, sic thyngis to pretende
Nochtwithstanding, ye straucht way sal yu wende
To thame, quhilk wes the realme in gouernance
Declare thy mynde to thame, with circumstance
Go first tyll Iames, our Prince, and Protectour
And his Brother, our Spirituall Gouernour

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❧And Prince of Preistis, in this Natioun.
Efter Reuerend Recommendatioun
Vnder thare feit, thow lawlye the submyt
And mak thame humyll supplicatioun
Geue thay in the, fynd wrang Narratioun
That thay wald pleis, thy faltis to remyt
And of thare grace, geue thay do the admyt
Than go thy waye, quhare euer thow plesis best
Be thay content, mak reuerence to the rest.

❧To faithfull Prudent Pastourꝭ Spirituall
To Nobyll, Erlis, and Lordis Temporall
Obedientlye, tyll thame thow the addres
Declaryng thame, this schort memoriall
Quhow Mankynd bene, to miserie maid thrall
At lenth to thame, the cause planelie confesse
Beseikand thame, all lawis to suppresse
Inuentit, be Mennis Traditioun
Contrar to Christis Institutioun.

And cause thame cleirlye, for tyll vnderstand
That for the brekyng of, the Lordꝭ command
His Thrynfall wande, of Flagellatioun
Hes Scurgit, this pure Realme of Scotland
Be mortall weris, baith be sey and land
With mony terrabyll trybulatioun
Tharefor mak to thame trew narratiounRe. xxiiii. & the .ii.
That al thir weris, this derth, hunger, and Pest
Was nocht, bot for our Synnis manefest.i. Cor. iii.

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Gene. vii
Declare to thame, quhow in the tyme of Noye
Alluterlye, God did the warld distroye
As Holy Scripture, maketh mentioun
Sodom, Gomor, with thare Regioun and Roye
Gene. xix
God sparit nothir Man, Woman, nor Boye
Bot all wer brynt, for thare offentioun
Iherusalem, that moste tryumphant town
Mathew .xxiii.
Distroyit wes, for thare Iniquytie
Luc. xiii.
As in the Scripture, planelye thay may se.

¶Declare to thame, this mortall miserie.
Be sweird and fyre, derth, pest, and pouertie
Iere, xv.
Procedis of Syn, gyf I can rycht discryue
For laik of Faith, and for Ydolatrye
For Fornicatioun, and for Adultrye
Off Princis, Prelatꝭ, wt mony ane man & wyue
Expell the cause, than the effect belyue
Sall cease, quhen that the peple doith repent
Than God sall slak his bow, quhilk ȝit is bent.

Mak thaim requeist, quhilk hes the Gouernance
The Sinceir word of God for tyll Auance
Conforme to Christis Institutioun
Without Ypocrisie, or dissimulance
Causyng Iustice, hauld ewinlye the Ballance
On Publicanis, makyng punyssioun
Commendyng thame, of gude conditioun
That beyng done, I dout nocht bot the Lorde
Sall of this countre, haue Misericorde.

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❧ Thoucht God, with mony terrabyll effrayis.
Hes done this cuntrie scurge, by diuers wayis
Be Iuste Iugement, for our greuous offence
Declare to thame, thay sall haue mery dayis
Efter this trubyll, as the Propheit sayis
Quhen God sall se, our humyll Repentence
Tyll strange pepyll, thoucht he hes geuin lycence
To be our scurge, Induryng his desyre
Wyll quhen he lyste, that Scurge cast in the fyre

Pray thame, that thay putt nocht thare esperance
In mortall Men, onelye thame tyll aduance
Bot principallye in God OmnipotentPsalme .c. xvii.
Than neid thai not, to charge ye realme of France
With Gounnis, Galayis, nor vther Ordinance
So that thay be, to God Obedient
In thir premyssis, be thay nocht negligent
Displayand Christis Banar, hie on heycht
Thare Ennimeis, of thame sall haue no mycht.

Go hence pure Buke, quhilk I haue done indyte
In rurall ryme, in maner of dispyte
Contrar, the warldlis Variatioun
Off Rethorick, heir I Proclame the quyte
Idolatouris, I feir sall with the flyte
Because of thame, thow makis Narratioun
Bot cure thow nocht, the Indignatioun
Off Hypocritis, and fais Pharisience
Quhowbeit on the, thay cry ane lowde vengence

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¶Requeist the Gentyll Redar, that the redis.
Thocht Ornat termes, in to thy park not spredis
As thay in the, may haue experience
Thocht Barran feildis, beris nocht bot weidis
Ȝit brutall beistis, sweitlye on thame feidis
Desyre of thame, none vther recompance
Bot that thay wald, reid the with pacience
And geue thay be, in ony way offendit
Declare to thame, it salbe weill amendit.

*FINIS*

Heirendis ye Epistil & follouis ye Prologe .&c.

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❧THE PROLOGE.

MVSING, And maruelling on ye miserie
Frome day to day, in erth quhilk dois
And of ilk stait, ye instabilitie (incres
Proceding of the restles besynes
Quhare on ye most part, doith thair mynd addres
Inordinatlie, on houngrye couatyce
Vaine glore, dissait, and vthir sensuall vyce.

¶ Bot tumlyng In my bed, I mycht nocht lye.
Quhairfore I fuir furth, in ane Maye mornyng
Conforte to gett, of my malancolye
Sumquhat affore, fresche Phebus vperysing
Quhare I mycht heir, the birdis sweitlie syng
Intyll ane park, I past for my plesure
Decorit weill, be craft of dame Nature.

¶ Quhov I ressauit confort naturall.
For tyll discryue at lenth, it war to lang
Smelling the holsum herbis medicinall
Quhare on ye dulce, and balmy dew down dang
Lyke aurient peirles on the twistis hang
Or quhov that the Aromatik odouris
Did proceid frome the tender fragrant flouris.

¶ Or quhov Phebus that king etheriall.
Swyftlie sprang vp in to the orient
Ascending in his throne Imperiall
Quhose brycht, and buriall bemes resplendent
Illumynit all on to the Occident
[Page]Confortand euerye corporall creature
Quhilk formit war, in erth, be dame Nature

Quhose douke impurpurit vestiment nocturnall.
With his imbroudit mantyll matutyne
He lefte in tyll his regioun aurorall
Quhilk on hym watit quhen he did declyne
Towarte his occident palyce vespertyne
And rose in habyte gaye and glorious
Brychtar nor gold, or stonis precious.

¶ Bot Synthea, the hornit nychtis quene.
Scho loste hir lycht, and lede ane lawar saill
Frome tyme hir souerane lorde that scho had sene
And in his presens, waxit dirk, and paill
And ouer hir visage, kest ane mistye vaill
So did Venus, the goddes amorous
With Iupiter, Mars, and Mercurius.

☞ Rychtso the auld Intoxicat Saturne.
Persauyng Phebus, powir his beymes brycht
Abufe the erth, than maid he no sudgeourne
Bot suddandlye did lose his borrowit lycht
Quhilk he durst neuir schaw, bot on the nycht
The Pole artick, wrsis, and sterris all
Quhilk situate ar, in the Septemtrionall.

Tyll errand schyppis, quhilks ar the souer gyde
Conuoyand thame vpone the stromye nycht
Within thare frostie circle did thame hyde
[Page]Howbeit that sterris haue none vthir lycht
Bot the reflex of Phebus bemes brycht
That day durst none in to the heuin appeir
Tyll he had circuit all our Hemispeir.

¶ Me thocht it was ane sycht eclestiall.
To sene Phebus so angellyke ascend
In tyll his fyrie chariot tryumphall
Quhose bewte brycht, I culd notht comprehend
All warldlie cure anone did fro me wend
Quhen fresche flora, spred furth hir tapestrie
Wrocht be dame Nature quent and curiouslie.

¶ Depaynt with mony hundreth heuinlie hewis
Glaid of the rysing, of thare royall Roye
With blomes breckand on the tender bewis
Quhilk did prouoke myne hart tyl natural Ioye
Neptune that day, and Eoll held thame coye
That men on far, mycht heir the birdis sounde
Quhose noyis did to the sterrye heuin redounde.

The plesand Powne, prunȝeand his feddrem fair
The myrthfull Maues maid gret melodie
The lustye Lark ascending in the air
Numerand hir naturall notis craftelye
The gay Goldspink, the Merll rycht myrralye
The noyis of the nobyll Nychtingalis
Redundit throuch ye montans, meids, and valis

¶ Contempling this melodious armonye.
[Page]Quhov euerilke bird, drest thame for tyl aduance
To saluss Nature with thare melodye
That I stude gasing, halflingꝭ in ane trance
To heir thame mak thare naturall obseruance
So royallie, that all the roches rang
Throuch repercussioun of thare suggurit sang.

¶ I lose my tyme, allace for to rehers.
Sick vnfrutful and vaine discriptioun
Or wrytt in to my raggit rurall vers
Mater without edificatioun
Consydering quhov that myne intentioun
Bene tyll deplore the mortall misereis
With continuall cairfull calamiteis.

¶ Consisting in this wracheit vaill of sorrow.
Bot sad sentence, sulde haue ane sad indyte
So termes brycht, I lyste nocht for to borrow
Off murnyng mater men hes no delyte
With roustye termes tharefor wyl I wryte
With sorrowful seychis ascending frome ye splene
And bitter teris, distellyng frome myne eine.

¶ Withoute ony vaine inuocatioun.
To Minerua, or to Melpominee
Nor ȝitt wyll I mak supplicatioun
For help to Cleo, nor Caliopee
Sick marde Musis, may mak me no supplee
Proserpyne, I refuse and Apollo
And rycht so Ewterp, Iupiter, and Iuno.

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¶ Quhilkꝭ bene to plesand Poetis conforting.
Quharefor because I am nocht one of tho
I do desyre of thame no supporting
For I did neuer sleip on Pernaso
As did the Poetis of lang tyme ago
And speciallie the ornate Ennius
Nor drank I neuer with Hysiodus.

¶ Off Grece, the perfyte poet souerane.
Off Hylicon the sors of Eloquence
Off that mellifluus famous fresche fontane
Quharefor I awe to thame no reuerence
I purpose nocht to mak obedience
To sic mischeand Musis, nor malmontrye
Afore tyme vsit in to poetrye

☞ Raue and Rhammusia goddes of dispyte.
Mycht be to me ane Muse rycht conuenabyll
Gyff I desyrit sic help for tyll indyte
This murnyng mater, mad, and miserabyll
I mon go seik ane muse more confortabyl
And sic vaine superstitioun to refuse
Beseikand the gret God to be my muse.

Be quhose wysdome al maner of thing bene wro­chtGenes. i.
The heych heuinnꝭ wt all thair ornamentis
And without mater maid all thing of nocht
Hell, in myd Centir of the Elementis
That heuinlye Muse, to seik my hole intent is
The quhilk gaif sapience to king Salomoneiii. Re. iii.
[Page]Psalme .lxxxix.
To Dauid grace, strenth to ye strang Sampsone

Iuges xiii.
And of pure Peter, maid ane prudent precheour.
Mat. iiii
And be the power of his deitee
Actis .ix,
Off creuell Paule he maid ane cūnyng techeour
I mon beseik rycht lawly on my knee
His heych superexcellent Maiestie
That with his heuinlye spreit, he me inspyre
To wrytt no thyng, contrarye his disyre.

Luc. i.
¶ Beseikand als, his Souerane Sonne Iesu.
Quhilk wes consauit be the holy spreit
Incarnat of the purifyit Virgin trev
In to the quhome, the Prophicie was compleit
That Prince, of peace, moist humyll, & māsweit
Quhilk onder Pylate, sufferit passioun
Luc. xxiii
Vpone the Croce, for our saluatioun.

¶ And be that creuell deith, intollerabyll.
Lowsit we wer frome bandis of Balyall
And mairattouir, it wes so proffitabyll
That to this hour, come neuir man nor sall
To the tryumphant ioye Imperiall
Off lyfe, quhowbeit that thay war neuer sa gude
Hebr. ix.
Bot be the vertew, of that precious blude.

¶Quharefor in steid, of the mont Pernaso.
Swyftlie, I sall go seik my Souerane
To Mont Caluare, the straucht waye mon I go,
To gett ane taist, of that moist fresche fontane
That sors to seik my hart may nocht refrane
[Page]Off Hylicone quhilk wes boith deip and wydē
That Longeous did graue, in tyll his syde.Iho. xix.

From yat fresche fontane, sprang a famous flude
Quhilk redolēt Reuer throuch ye warld ȝit rynnis
As christall cleir, and mixit bene with blude
Quhose sound abufe the heyest heuinnꝭ dinnis
All faithfull peple, purgeing frome thare synnis,
Quharefor I sall beseik his Excellence
To grant me grace, wysedome, and Eloquence.

And bayth me with those dulce & balmy strandis.
Quhilk on the Croce, did spedalie out spryng
Frome his moste tender feit, and heuinly handis,
And grant me grace, to wrytt nor dyte no thyng
Bot tyll his heych honour, and loude louyng
But quhose support, thare may na gud be wrocht
Tyll his plesure, gude workꝭ, word, nor thocht.

¶Tharefor O Lorde, I pray thy Maiestie.
As thov did schaw thy heych power Diuyne
First planelie, in the Cane of GaleleeIhon .ii.
Quhare thov conuertit cauld watter in wyne
Conuoye my mater, tyll ane fructuous fyne
And saue my sayingꝭ, baith frome schame and syn
Tak tent, for now I purpose to begyn.

¶ FINIS.

Heirendis the ꝓloge, And beginnis the Mater,

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❧ THE FIRST BVKE.❧ IMTO that Park I sawe appeir,
One ageit man quhilk drew me neir
Quhose beird wes weil thre quart lang
His hair doun ouer his schulders hang
The quhilk as ony snaw wes quhyte
Quhome to behald I thocht delyte
His habitt Angellyke of hew
Off culloure lyke the Sapheir blew
Onder ane Hollyng he reposit
Off quhose presens I was reiosit
I did hym saluss reuerendlye
So did he me rycht courteslye
To sitt down he requeistit me
Onder the schaddow of that tre
To saif me frome the Sonnis heit
Amangis the flowris softe and sweit
For I wes werye for walking
Than we began to fall in talking
I sperit his name with reuerence?
I am (said he) Experience.
Cour.
¶Than Schir (said I) ȝe can nocht faill
To gyff ane desolate man counsaill
Ȝe do appeir ane man of faime
And sen Experience bene ȝour name
I praye ȝow Father venerabyll
Geue me sum counsell confortabyll?
Expe.
¶Quhate bene (quod he) thy vocatioun
Makand sic supplycatioun?
Cour.
¶I haif (quod I) bene to this hour
[Page]Sen I could ryde, one Courtiour
Bot now Father I thynk it best
With ȝour counsell to leif in rest
And frome thyne furth to tak myne eais
And quyetlie my God to pleais
And renunce Curiositie
Leueyng the Court, and lerne to de
Oft haue I salit ouer the strandis
And traualit throuch diuers landis
Boith south, and north, and est, and west
Ȝitt can I neuer fynd quhare rest
Doith mak his habitatioun
Withoute ȝour supportatioun
Quhen I beleif, to be best easit
Most suddantlye, I am displeasit
Frome trubbyll quhen I fastast fle
Than fynd I most aduersate
Schaw me I pray ȝow hartfullye
Quhow I may leif most plesandlye
To serue my God, of kyngis Kyng
Sen I am tyrit for trauellyng
And lerne me for, to be content
Off quyet lyfe, and sobir rent
That I may thank, the kyng of glore
As thocht I had ane Mylȝeoun more
Sen euerilk Court, bene variant
Full of Inuy, and inconstant
Mycht I but trubbyll leif in rest
Now in my aige, I thynk it best
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¶Thow art ane gret fuill Sonne (said he)
Thyng to desyre, quhilk may nocht be
Ȝarnyng to haue prerogatyue
Aboue all Creature on lyfe
Sen Father Adam creat bene
In to the Campe of Damassene
Mycht no man say on to this hour
That euer he fand perfyte plesour
Nor neuer sall tyll that he se
God in his Diuyne Maiestie
Quharefore prepair the for trauell
Iob. vii.
Sen mennis lyfe, bene bot battell
All men begynnis for tyll de
The day of thare Natiuite
And Iournelly thay do proceid
Tyll Atrops cute the fatell threid
And in the breif tyme that thay haue
Betuix thare byrth on to thare graue
Thow seis, quhat mutabiliteis
Quhat miserabyll Calamiteis
Quhat trubbyll trauell and debait
Seis thow, in euere mortall stait
Begyn at pure lawe Creaturis
Ascending syne to Synaturis
To gret Princis and Potestatis
Thow sall nocht fynd in non estatis
Sen the begynning gennerallie
Nor in our tyme, now speciallie
Bot tiddious restles besynes
But ony maner of sickarnes.
[Page]¶Prudent Father (ꝙ I) allaceCour.
Ȝe tell to me one cairfull cace
Ȝe say that no man to this hour
Hes found in erth perfyte plesour
Without infortunat variance
Sen we bene thrall to sic myschance
Quhy do we set so our Intentis
On Ryches Dignitie and Rentis
Sen in the erth, bene no man sure
One day but trubbyll tyll Indure
And werst of all, quhen we leist wene
The creuell deith, we mon sustene
Geue I ȝour Fatherheid durste demand
The cause I wald faine vnderstand
And als Father I ȝow Implore
Schaw me sum trubbyll gone afore
That heryng vtheris Indigence
I may the more haif patience
Mar [...]owis, in trybulatioun
Bene Wracheis consolatioun
Quod he, efter my small cunnyngExpe.
To the I sall mak answeryng
Bot Ordourlie, for to begyn
This Misarie procedis of Syn
Bot it wer lang, for to defynit
Quhow all men ar to Syn Inclynit
Quhen Syn aboundantlye doith ryng
Iustly God, makith punyssing
Quharefore gret God, in to his handis
[Page]To dant the warld hes diuers wand is
Efter our euyll conditioun
He makis on ws punytioun
With hunger, darth, and Indigens
Sum tyme gret plagis, and pestilens
And sum tyme with his bludy wand
Throw creuell weir be sey and land
Concludyng all our misarie
Proceidis of Syn, alluterlie.
Cour.
¶Father (quod I) declare to me
The cause of this Fragyllitie
That we bene all to Syn inclynde
In werk, in word, and in our mynde
I wald the veritie wer schawin
Quho hes this seid amang ws sawin
And quhy we ar condampnit to dede
And quhow that we may get remede
(Quod he) the Scripture hes concludit.
Expe.
Men frome felicitite wer denudit
Gen. iii.
Be Adam our Progenitour
Vmquhyle of Paradyse possessour
Be quhose most wylfull arrogance
Wes Mankynd brocht to this myschance
Quhen he wes Inobedient
In breking Godꝭ commandiment
Be solystatioun of his wyfe
He loste that heuinlye plesand lyfe
Etand of the forbiddin tre
Thare began all our miserrie
Rem. v.
So Adam wes cause Radicall
[Page]That we bene fragyll Synnaris all
Adam brocht in this Natioun
Syn, Deith, and als Dampnatioun
Quho wyll say, he is no Synnari. Ioh. i.
Christ sayis, he is ane gret lear
Mankynde sprang furth, of Adamis Loynis
And tuke of hym, flesche, blude, and bonis
And so efter his qualytie
All ar Inclynit Synnaris to be
¶Bot ȝit my Sonne, dispare thow nochtExpe.
For God that all the warld hes wrocht
Hes maid ane Souerane remede
To saif ws boith frome syn and dede
And frome etarne dampnatioun
Tharefore tak consolatioun
For God as Scripture doith recorde
Haueyng of man Misericorde
Send doun his onelye Sonne Iesu
Quhilk lychtit in one Virgin trew
And cled his heych Diuynitie
With our pure vyle Humanytie
Syne frome our synnis, to conclude
He wysche ws with his precious bludeApoca. i
Quhowbeit throw Adam, we mon deeRom. v.
Throuch that Lord, we sall rasit beeHebre. x
And euerilk man, he sall releue
Quhilk in his blude, doith ferme beleue
And bryng ws all vnto his glore
The quhilk throw Adam bene forlore
Without that we throw laik of faith
[Page]Off his Godheid, incur the wraith
Ioh. iii.v
Bot quho in Christ, fermely beleuis
Sall be relcuit frome all myscheuis
Cour.
¶Quhat faith is that, that ȝe call ferme
Schir gar me vnderstand that terme
Expe.
Faith without Hope, and CharitieHebr. xi.
Aualit nocht, my Sonne (said he)
Cour.
Quhat Charite bene, that wald I knaw
Expe.
Quod he, my Sonne that sall I schaw
First lufe thy God, aboue all thyngi. Corin. xiii.
And thy Nychtbour, but fenȝeyng
Do none Iniure, nor villanie
Bot as thow wald wer done to the
Iaco. ii.
Quyk faith, but cheretabyll werkis
Can neuer be, as wryttis Clerkis
More than the fyre, in tyll his mycht
Can be but heit, nor Sonne but lycht
Geue charitie, in to the failis
Thy Faith, nor Hope, no thyng auailis
The Deuyll hes Faith, and trymlis for dreid
Bot he wantis Hope, and lufe in deid
Do all the gude, that may be wrocht
But charitie all auailis nocht
Quharefore pray to the Trinite
For tyll support thy Charite.
¶Now haue I schawin the as I can
Quhow Father Adam the first man
Brocht in the warld, boith Syn and Dede
And quhow Christ Iesu, maid remede
Quhilk on the day of Iugement
[Page]Sall ws delyuer frome torment
And bryng ws to his lestyng glore
Quhilk sall indure for euer more
Bot in this warld thow gettis no rest
I mak it to the manifest
Tharefore my Sonne, be diligent
And lerne for to be patient
And in to God, sett all thy traist
All thyng sall than, cum for the best.
¶Father I thank ȝow hartfullyeCour.
Off ȝour conforte, and cumpanye
And heuinlye consolatioun
Makand ȝow supplicatioun
Geue I durst put ȝow to sic pyne
That ȝe wald pleis for to defyne
And gar me cleirlye vnderstand
Quhow Adam brak the Lordꝭ command
And quhow throw his transgressioun
Wer punyst his Successioun.
My Sonne (quod he) wald thow tak cureExpe.
To luke on the Diuyne Scripture
In to the Buke of Genesis
That storye thare, thow sall nocht mis
And alswa syndrie cunnyng Clerkis
Hes done rehers in to thare werkis
Off Adamis fall, full Ornatly
Ane thousand tymes better nor I
Can wrytt, of that vnhappy man
Bot I sall do, the best I can
Schortlie to schaw that cairfull cace
With the support of Goddis grace.
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Ane exclamatioun to The Redar, Twycheyng the wryttyng of Vulgare, and Maternall Language.GENTYL Redar, haif at me nō dispyte
Thynkand yt I p̄sumptuously pretend
In vulgair tōng, so heych mat to writ
Bot quhair I mys, I pray ye till amēd
Tyll vnlernit, I wald the cause wer kend
Off our most miserabyll trauell and torment
And quhow in erth, no place bene parmanent
Quhowbeit that diuers deuote cunnyng Clerkis
In Latyne toung hes wryttin syndrie bukis
Our vnlernit knawis lytill of thare werkis
More than thay do the rauyng of the Rukis
Quharefore to Colȝearis, Cairtaris, & to Cukis
To Iok and Thome, my Ryme sall be diractit
With cūnyg men, quhowbeit it wylbe lactit
Thocht euery Cōmoun may nocht be one Clerk.
Nor hes no Leid, except thare toung maternall
Quhy suld of god, the maruellous heuinly werk
Be hid frome thame, I thynk it nocht fraternall
The father of heuin, quhilk wes, & is Eternall
Exo. xx.
To Moyses gaif, the Law on mont Senay
Nocht in to Greik, nor Latyne, I heir say.
He wrait the Law, in Tablis hard of stone
In thare awin vulgare language of Hebrew
[Page]That all the bairnis of Israell euery one
Mycht knaw the law, and so the sam ensew
Had he done wryt, in Latyne or in Grew
It had to thame bene bot ane sawrles Iest
Ȝe may weill wytt, God wrocht all for the best.
☞ Arristotyll, nor Plato, I heir sane.
Wrait nocht thare hie Philosophie naturall
In Duche, nor Dence, nor toung Italiane
Bot in thare most ornate toung maternall
Quhose fame, and name doith ryng perpetuall
Famous Virgill, the Prince of Poetrie
Nor Cicero, the flour of Oratrie
Wrait nocht in Caldye language nor in Grew
Nor ȝit in to the language Saraȝene
Nor in the naturall language of Hebrew
Bot in the Romane toung as may be sene
Quhilk wes thair proper language, as I wene
Quhen Romanis rang Dominatorꝭ in deid
The Ornat Latyne, wes thare propir leid
In the mene tyme, quhē yt thir bauld Romance
Ouer all the warld had the Dominioun
Maid Latyne Scolis thare glore for tyll auance
That thare language mycht be ouer all cōmoun
To that intent, be my Opinioun
Traistyng that thare Impyre sulde ay Indure
Bot of fortune, alway thay wer nocht sure
¶Off Languagis, the first Diuersytie
Wes maid be Goddis MaledictiounGene. xi.
[Page]Quhen Babilone wes beildit in calde
Those beildaris, gat none vther afflictioun
Affore the tyme of that punyssioun
Wes bot one toung, quhilk Adam spak hym self
Quhare now of toungis, thare bene thre score and twelf
Nochtwithstandyng, I thynk it gret plesour
Quhare cunnyng men hes languagis anew
That in thare ȝouth, be deligent laubour
Hes leirnit Latyne, Greik, and ald Hebrew
That I am nocht of that sorte, sore I rew
Quharefore I wald all bukis necessare
For our faith, wer in tyll our toung vulgare
Actis .ii.
Christ efter his glorious Ascentioun
Tyll his Disciplis send the holy Spreit
In toungis of fyre, to that intentioun
Thay beand of all languagis repleit
Throuch all the warld with wordis fair and sweit
Tyll euery man the faith, thay suld furth schaw
In thare awin leid, delyuerand thame the Law.
Tharefore I thynk one gret dirisioun.
To heir thir Nunnis, & Systerꝭ, nycht and day.
Syngand and sayand psalmes and orisoun
Nocht vnderstandyng quhat thay syng nor say
Bot lyke one stirlyng or ane Papingay
Quhilk leirnit ar, to speik be lang vsage
Thame I compair, to byrdis in ane cage.
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Rycht so Childreyng, and Ladyis of honouris
Prayis in Latyne, to thame ane vncuth leid
Mumland yair matynis, euinsang & yare houris
Thare Pater Noster, Aue. and thare Creid
It wer als plesand to thare spreit in deid
God haue mercy on me, for to say thus
As to say, Miserere Mei Deus.
Sanct Ierome in his propir toung Romane
The Law of God, he trewlie did translait
Out of Hebrew, and Greik, in Latyne plane
Quhilk hes bene hid frōe ws lang tyme god wait
Onto this tyme, bot efter myne consait
Had Sanct Ierome bene borne in tyll Argyle
In to Yrische tōng, his bukis had done compyle
Prudent sanct Paull doith mak narratioun
Twycheyng the diuers leid of euery landi Cor. xii [...] ▪
Sayand thare bene more edificatioun
In fyue wordis that folk doith vnderstand
Nor to pronunce of wordis ten thousand
In strange langage sine wait not quhat it menis
I thynk sic pattryng is not worth twa prenis.
☞Vnlernit peple, on the holy day.
Solemnitlye thay heir the Euangell soung
Nocht knawyng quhat, ye preist dois sing nor say
Bot as ane Bell, quhen that thay heir it roung
Ȝit wald the Preistis, in to thare mother toung
Pas to the Pulpitt, and that doctryne declare
Tyll lawid pepyll, it wer more necessare.
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¶ I wald Prelattis, and Doctouris of the Law
With ws lawid peple, wer nocht discontent
Thocht we in to our vulgare toung did knaw
Off Christ Iesu, the lyfe and Testament
And quhow that we sulde keip commandiment
Bot in our language, lat ws pray and reid
Our Pater Noster. Aue. and our Creid.
¶I wald sum Prince, of gret Discretioun.
In vulgare language, planelye gart translait
The neidfull lawis, of this Regioun
Than wald thare nocht, be half so gret debait
Amang ws peple of the law estait
Geue euery man, the veryte did knaw
We nedit nocht to treit thir men of law.
Tyll do our nychtbour wrang, we wald be war
Gyf we did feir, the lawis punysment
Thare wald nocht be, sic brawlyng at the bar
Nor men of law, loup to sic royall rent
To keip the law, gyf all men war content
And ilk man do, as he wald be done to
The Iugis wald get lytill thyng ado,
¶The Propheit Dauid Kyng of Israell.
Compyld the plesand Psalmes of the Psaltair
In his awin propir toung as I heir tell
And Salamone, quhilk wes his sone and air
Did mak his buke, in tyll his toung vulgare
Quhy suld nocht thare sayng, be tyll ws schawin
In our language, I wald the cause wer knawin.
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Lat Doctoris wrytt thare curious questionis
And argumentis, sawin full of Sophistrye
Thare Logick, and thare heych Opinionis
Thare dirk Iugementis, of Astronomye
Thare Medecyne, and thare Philosophye
Latt Poetꝭ schaw, thare glorious Ingyne
As euer thay pleis, in Greik, or in Latyne.
¶Bot lat ws haif the bukis necessare.
To commoun weill and our Saluatioun
Iustlye translatit, in our toung Vulgare
And als I mak the Supplicatioun
O gentyll Redar, haif none Indignatioun
Thynkand I mell me with so hie matair
Now to my purpose, fordwart wyll I fair.
FINIS.
❧ Heir followis the Creatioun of Adam, and Eue.QVHEN God had maid ye heuinīs brycht
The Sone, & Mone, for to geue lycht
The sterry heuin, & Christellyne
And be his Sapience diuyneGen. i.
The planetꝭ in yair circlis round
Quhirling about wt merie sound
Off quhome Phebus, was principall
Iuste in his Lyne Eclipticall
And gaue be Diuyne Sapience
[Page]Tyll euery Ster thare Influence
With motioun continuall
Quhilk doith indure perpetuall
And farrest frome the heuin Impyre
The erth, the walter, air, and fyre
He cled the erth, with herbis, and treis
All kynd of fysches in the seis
All kynd of best, he did prepair
With fowlis, fleyng in the air
Thus be his word, all thyng was wrocht
Without materiall maid of nocht
So be his wysedome Infinyte
All wes maid plesand and perfyte,
Quhen heuin, and erth, and thare contentis
Wer endit with thare Ornamentis
Than last of all, the Lord began
Off most vyle erth, to mak the man
Nocht of the Lille, nor the Rose
Nor Sypertre, as I suppose
Nother of gold, nor precious stonis
Off erth he maid flesche blude and bonis
To that intent, God maid hym thus
That man sulde nocht be glorious
Nor in hym self, no thyng suld se
Bot matere of humylite
Quhen man wes maid, as I haue tald
Gene. ii.
God in his face, did hym behald
Brathand in hym, ane lyflie spreit
Quhen all thir werkis wer compleit
He maid man, to his simylitude
[Page]Precelland in to pulchritude
Dotit with gyftis of Nature
Aboue all erthlye creature
Syne plesandlye did hym conuoye
To ane regioun repleit with Ioye
Off all plesour, quhilk bair the pryce
And callit erthly Paradyce
And brocht be Diuyne prouience
All beistis, and byrdis, tyll his presence
Adam did craftelye Impone
Ane speciall name, tyll euery one
And to all thyngis materiall
He namyt thame in speciall
Quhow he thame namyt ȝitt bene kend
And salbe to the warldlis end
In to that gardyng of plesance
Two treis grew, most tyll auance
Aboue all vther, quhilk bair the pryce
In myddis of that Paradyce
The one wes callit the tre of lyfe
The vther tre, began our stryfe
The tre to knaw boith gude and euyll
Quhilk be perswatioun of the Deuyll
Began our misarie and wo
Bot lat ws to our purpose go.
¶Quhow God gaue Adam strait commāde
That tre to twyche, nocht with his hand
All vther fructis of Paradyce
He had hym eit at his deuyce
Sayand gyf thow eit of this tre
[Page]With dowbyll deith, than sall thow dee
Tharefore I the command be war
And frome this tree, thow stand afar
Ȝitt Father Adam wes allone
But cumpanye of ony one
Than thocht the Lord, it Necessare
Tyll hym to Creat ane helpare
¶God patt in Adam sic Sapour
That for to sleip, he tuke plesour
And laid hym down apone the grounde
And quhen Adam wes slepand sounde
He tuke ane Rib, furth of his syde
Syne fyld it vp, with flesche and hyde
And maid ane Woman of that bone
Fairar of forme, wes neuer none
Than tyll Adam Incontinent
That fair Lady, he did present
Quhilk schortlye said, for to conclude
Thow art my flesche, my bonis, and blude
And Virago, he callit hir than
Quhilk is Interpreit, maid of man
Quhilk Eua, efterwart wes namyt
Quhen for hir falt, sche wes diffamyt
Than did the Lord thame Sanctyfie
Saying Incres, and Multyplie
Be this, men suld leif all thare kyn
And with thare Wyffis mak dwellyn
And for thare saik, leif Father and Mother
And lufe thame best, aboue all vther
[Page]For God hes ordanit thame trewlye
To be two saulis, in one bodye
¶My wytt is waik, for tyll Indyte
Thare heuinlye plesouris Infinyte
Wes neuer none, erthlye Creature
Sen syne had sic perfyte plesoure
Thay had puyssance Imperiall
Aboue all thyng materiall
Als cunnyng Clerkis, dois conclude
Adam preceld, in pulchritude
Most Naturall and the farest man
That euir wes sen the warld began
Cxcept Christ Iesu, Goddis Sonne
To quhome wes no comparisone
And Eua, the fairest Creature
That euer wes formit be nature
Thocht thay wer naikit, as thay wer maid
No schame ather, of vther haid
Quhat plesour mycht ane man haif more
Nor haif his Lady hym before
So lustye, plesand, and perfyte
Reddy to serue his appetyte
Thay had none vther cure I wys
Bot past thare tyme, with Ioye and blys
Wyld Beistis, did to thame repair
So did the Fowlis of the air
With noyis most Angelycall
Makand thame myrthis Musicall
The fyschis soumand in the strandis
[Page]Wer holelye at thare commandis
All Creaturꝭ with ane accorde
Obeyit hym, as thare souerane Lorde
Thay sufferit nother heit, nor cald
With euery plesour that thay wald
Als to the deith, thay wer nocht thrall
And rychtso suld we haue bene all
For he and all his Successouris
Suld haue possedit those plesouris
Syne frome that Ioye materiall
Gone to the glore Imperiall
Thay had geue I can rycht discryue
Gret Ioy, in all thare wyttis fyue
In heiryng, seyng, gustyng, smellyng
Induryng thare delytesum dwellyng
Heiryng the byrdis armoneis
Taistyng the fructis, of diuers treis
Smellyng the balmye dulce odouris
Quhilk did proceid, frome fragrant flowris
Seyng so mony heuinlye hewis
Off blomes brekyng on the bewis
Off twycheyng als, thay had delyte
Off vtheris bodeis, soft and quhyte
But doute, Induryng that plesour
Thay lussit vther Paramour
No maruell bene thocht swa suld be
Consyderyng thare gret bewte
Als God gaue thame command expres
To multyplie, and tyll incres
[Page]That thare seid, and successioun
Mycht pleneis euery Natioun
¶I lyst nocht tarye tyll declare
All properteis of that place preclare
Quhow herbis, and treis, grew ay grene
Nor of the temporat air serene
Quhow fructis, Indeficient
Ay alyke rype and redolent
Nor of the Fontane, nor the fludis
Nor of the flowris pulchritudis
That mater Clerkis dois declare
Quharefore I speik of thame na mare
The Scripture makꝭ no mentioun
Quhow lang thay rang in that Regioun
Bot I beleue, the tyme wes schorte
As diuers Doctouris dois reporte
FINIS
❧ Of the Miserabyll Transgressioun of Adam.❧ FATHER? Hov happinnit ye mischance
(Quod I) schaw me the circumstance
Declaryng me that cairfull caceCour.
Quhow Adam lost that plesand place
Frome hym and his Successioun
Quhow did proceid that transgressioun
(Quod he) efter my rude Ingyne
I sall rehers the that rewyneExpe.
[Page]Quhen God the Plasmatour of all
In to the heuin Imperiall
Did Creat all the Angellꝭ brycht
He maid one Angell, most of mycht
To quhome he gaif preheminence
Aboue thame all in sapience
Because all vther he did prefer
Namit he wes brycht Lucefer
He wes so plesand, and so fair
He thocht hym self, without compair
And grew so gay and glorious
He gan to be presumptuous
And thocht that he wald sett his sait
In to the north and mak bebait
Agane the Maiestie Diuyne
Quhilk wes the cause of his rewyne
For he incurrit Goddis Yre
And banyst frome the heuin Impyre
With Angellis mony one Legioun
Quhilkꝭ wer of his opinioun
Innumerabyll, with hym thare fell
Sum lychtit in the lawest hell
Sum in the sey did mak repair
Sum in the erth, sum in the air
That most vnhappy cumpanye
Att Father Adam had Inuye
Parsaueyng Adam, and his seid
In to thare places to succeid
Gene. iii.
The Serpent, wes the subtellest
Aboue all beistis and craftyest
[Page]Than Sathan, with ane fals intent
Did enter in to that Serpent
Imagenyng sum craftye wyle
Quhow he mycht Adam best begyle
And gar hym brek commandiment
Bot to the woman, first he went
Traistyng the better to preuaill
Full subtellye did hir assaill
With facund wordis, fals and fair
He grew with hir familiair
That he his purpose mycht auance
Beleuand in hir, Inconstance
¶ Quhat is the cause, Madame (said he)
That ȝe forbeir, ȝone plesand tre
Quhilk bene but peir most pretious
Quhose fruct bene moste delytious
I Nyll (quod sche) thare to accord
We ar forbyddin, be the Lord
The quhilk hes geuin ws lybertie
Tyll eait of euery fruct and tre
Quhilk growis in to Paradyse
Brek we command, we ar nocht wyse
He gaue tyll ws ane strait command
That tre to twyche, nocht with our hand
Eit we of it, without remede
He said but dout, we sulde be dede
Beleue nocht that (said the Serpent)
Eit ȝe of it, Incontinent
Repleit ȝe sall be with Science
[Page]And haif perfyte Intelligence
Lyke God hym self, of euyll and gude
Than haistellye for to conclude
Heiryng of this prerogatyue
Sche pullit doun the fruct belyue
Throw counsall of the fals Serpent
And eit of it, to that intent
And patt hir Husband in beleue
That plesand fruct, gyf he wald preue
That he suld be als Sapient
As the gret God Omnipotent
Thynk ȝe nocht that ane plesand thyng
That we lyke God, suld euer ryng
He herand this Narratioun
And be hir solistatioun
Mouit be prydefull ambitioun
He eit on that conditioun
The principall poyntis, of this offence
War pryde, and Inobedience
Desyring for to be Equall
To God, the Creature of all
Allace Adam, quhy did thow so
Quhy causit thow this mortall wo
Had thow bene constant firme and stabyll
Thy glore had bene Incomparabyll
Quhare wes thy consyderatioun
Quhilk had the Dominatioun
Off euery leuyng Creature
That God had formit be Nature
[Page]Tyll vse thame at thy awin d [...]uyse
Wes thow nocht prince of Paradyse
Wes neuer man, sen syne on lyue
That God gaue sic Prerogatyue
He gaif the strenth, aboue Sampsone
And sapience more than Salomone
Ȝoung Absolone, in his tyme moste fair
To thy bewte, wes no compair
Arestotyll, thow did precell
In to Phylosophie, naturell
Virgill in tyll his Poetrye
Nor Cicero, in tyll Oratrye
War neuer half so Eloquent
Quhy brak thow Goddꝭ commandiment
Quhare wes thy wytt, that wald nocht flee
Far frome the presens of that tree
Gaif nocht thy Maker the fre wyll
To take the gude, and leif the euyll
Quhow mycht thy forfalt be excusit
That Goddꝭ commandiment refusit
Throuch thy wyffis perswasioun
Quhilk hes bene the occasioun
Sen syne that mony nobyll men
Be the euyll counsall of wemen
Alluterlye distroyit bene
As in the Storeis may be sene
Quhilk now, we neid nocht tyll declair
Bot fordwart tyll our purpose fair.
[Page]Quhen thay had eaitin of the frute
Off Ioye, than wer thay destitute
Than gan thay boith, for to thynk schame
And to be naikit, thocht defame
And maid thame Breikꝭ, of leuis grene
That thair secreitꝭ, suld nocht be sene
Bot in the stait of Innocence
Thay had none sic experience
Bot quhen thay war to Syn subiectit
To schame and dreid, thay war coactit
And in ane busk, thay hid thame cloce
Aschamit of the Lordis voce
Quhilk callit Adam be his name
(Quod he) my Lord, I thynk gret schame
Naikit to cum, to thy presence
Thow had none sic experience
Quod God, quhen thow wes Innocent
Quhy brake thow my commandiment
Allace (quod Adam) to the Lorde
The veritie, I sall recorde
This woman that thow gaif to me
Gart me eit, of ȝone plesand tre
Rychtso the woman hir excusit
And said, the Serpent me abusit
Than to the Serpent, God said thus
O thow Dissauer venimous
Because the woman, thow begylit
Frome thyne furth, sall thow be exylit
Curst and waryit, sall thow be
[Page]So sall thy seid, be efter the
Cauld erth, salbe thy fude also
And creipand on thy breist sall go
Als I sall putt Inamite
Betuix the woman euer and the
Betuix thy seid, and womanis seid
Salbe continuall mortall feid
Quhowbeit thow hes wrocht thir myscheuis
It sall nocht be as thow beleuis
Sic seid salbe in woman sawin
That thy power, salbe doun thrawin
Treddyng thy heid, that thow may feill
And thow sall tred hym on the heill
This was his promys, and menyng
That the Immaculat Virgyng
Sulde beir the Prince Omnipotent
Quhilk suld tred doun, that fals Serpent
Sathan, and all his companye
And thame confunde alluterlye.
Quod I, geue Sathan prince of hellCour.
Spak in the Serpent as ȝe tell
And beistis can no way syn at all
Quhy wes the Serpent maid so thrall
I heir men say affore that hour
The Serpent had ane fair figour
And ȝeid straucht vp vpone his feit
And had his membris all compleit
As vtheris beistis vpone the bent
[Page]Expe.
(Quod he) for he wes Instrument
To Sathan, in this Miserie
Puneist he wes, as ȝe may se
As be experience thow may knaw
Expres in to the commoun Law
Ane man conuickit for bewgrye
The beist is brynt, als weill as he
Quhowbeit the beist be Innocent
And so befell, of the Serpent
It was the Feynd, sull of dispyte
Off Adamis fall, quhilk had the wyte
As he hes had of mony mo
Bot tyll our purpose lat ws go.
¶Than to the woman, for hir offence
God did pronunce, this sore sentence
All plesour, that thow had afforrow
Sall cheangit be in lestyng sorrow
Quhare that thow suld, with myrth and Ioy
Haue borne thy byrth, butt pane or noy
Now all thy bairnis sall thow bair
With dolour, and continuall cair
And thow salbe, for oucht thow can
Euer subiectit to the man
Be this sentence, God did conclude
Wemen frome lybertie denude
Quhilk be experience ȝe may se
Quhow Quenis, of moste hie degre
Ar vnder moste subiectioun
And sufferis moste correctioun
[Page]For thay lyke byrdis in tyll ane cage
Ar keipit ay vnder thirlage
So all wemen in thare degre
Suld to thare men, subiectit be
Quhowbeit sum ȝit wyll stryue for stait
And for the maistrye mak debait
Quhilk gyf thay want, boith ewin and morrow
Thare men wyll suffer mekle sorrow
Off Eue, thay tak that qualite
To desyre Soueranite
And than tyll Adam, said the Lord
Because that thow hes done accord
Thy wyll, and harknit to thy wyfe
Now sall thow lose this plesand lyfe
Thow wes tyll hir obedient
Bot thow brake my commandiment
Curste and baren, the erth salbe
Quhare euer thow gois, tyll that thow de
But laubour, it sall beir no corne
Bot Thirsyll, Nettyll, Breir, and Thorne
For fude, thow gettis none vther beild
Bot eait the herbis, apone the feild
Sore laubouryng, tyll thy browis sweit
Frome thyne furth, sall thow wyn thy meit
I maid the of the erth certane
And thow in erth, sall turne agane
Than maid he thame Abilȝement
Off skynnis, ane raggit rayment
[Page]Thame to preserue frome heit and cauld
Than grew thare dolour mony fauld
Now Adam ar ȝe lyke tyll ws
With ȝour gay garment glorious
To thame thir wordis, said the Lorde
Than cryit thay boith Misericorde
Quhen frome that Garth, with hartis sore
Baneist thay wer, for euer more
On to this wracheit vaill of sorrow
With daylie laubour ewin and morrow
Efter quhose dolorous departyng
The Lord gaue Paradyce in kepyng
Tyll ane Angell of Ierubin
That none suld haue entres thare in
Att the quhilk entres, he did stand
With flammand fyrie sweird in hand
To keip that Adam, and his wyfe
Sulde nocht taist of, the tre of lyfe
For geue thay of that tre had preuit
Perpetuallye, thay mycht haue leuit
So Adam, and his Successioun
Off Paradyce, tynt possessioun
And be this syn Originall
War men to Miserie maid thrall
My Sonne now may thow cleirly se
This warld began with misere
With miserie, it doith proceid
Quhose fyne sall dolour be and dreid
Cour.
Father (quod I) quhat kynd of lyfe
[Page]Led Adam with his lustye wyfe
Efter thare bailfull banesyng?
(Quod he) continuall womentyngExpe.
My hart hes ȝitt compassioun
Quhow thay went wandryng vp and doun
Weipyng with mony lowde allace
That thay had lost, that plesand place
In wyldernes to be exilde
Quhare thay fand nocht, bot beistis wylde
Manesyng thame, for tyll deuore
Quhilkꝭ all obedient war affore.
Father (quod I) in quhat countreCour.
Did leif Adam, efter that he
Was banesit frome that delyte
Clerkis (quod he) hes put in wryte
Quhow Adam dwelt, with mekle baillExpe.
In Mamber, in that lusty vaill
Quhilk efter was, the Iowis land
Quhare ȝit his Sepulture dois stand
I lyste nocht tary, tyll discryueGene. iiii
The wo of Adam, nor his wyue
Nor tell, quhen thay had Sonnis two
Cayn, and Abell, and no mo
Nor quhow curst Cayn, for Inuy
Did slay his Brother creuelly
Nor of thare murnyng, nor thare mone
Quhen thay but Sonnis, wer left allone
Abell lay slane, vpone the ground
Curst Cayn flemit, and Vagabound
[Page]Nor quhow God of his speciall grace
Send thame the thrid Sonne fair of face
Most lyke Adam, of slesche and blude
Seth was his name, gratious and gude
Nor quhow blynd Lameth, raikleslye
Did slay Cayn, vnhappelye
Adam as Clerkis dois discriue
Begat with Eue his wofull wyue
Off men Childryng thretty and two
And of Dochteris alyke also
Be this thow may weill vnderstand
That Adam saw, mony ane thowsand
That of his body, did discend
Or he out of the warld did wend
Gene. v.
Adam leifit in erth, but weir
Compleit, nyne hundreth and thretty ȝeir
And all his dayis war bot sorrow
Rememberyng boith ewin and morrow
Off Paradyce, the prosperitie
Syne of his gret miseritie
His hart mycht neuer be reiosit
Remembryng quhow the heuin wes closit
Frome hym and his successioun
And that be his transgressioun
Efter his deith, as I heir tell
His Saul discendit to the hell
And thare remanit presoneir
In that Dungeoun, thre thousand ȝeir
And more, so did boith euyll and gude
[Page]Tyll Christ for thame, had sched his blude
Than be that most precious ransoun
Thay wer delyuerit of presoun
I haue declarit now as I can
The miserie of the first man.
FINIS.
Heir followis quhov God Distroyit all Leueand Creature in erth, for Syn, And Drownit thame be ane Terribyll Flude, in the tyme of Noye.PRVDENT Father Experience.Cour.
Declare to me, or ȝe go hence
Quhat wes the cause, God did distroye
All Creature in the tyme of Noye
(Quod he) I trymmyll for to tell
That Infortune, quhow it befellExpe.
The cause bene so abhominabyll
And the mater so miserabyll
Bot for to schaw the Circumstance
Manefestlye of that myschance
First I mon gar the vnderstand
Quhow Adam gaif expresse commandGene vi.
[Page]That those quhilkꝭ come of Sethis blude
Because thay wer gratious and gude
Suld nocht contract with Cainnis kyn
Quhilkꝭ wer Inclynit all to Syn,
Tyll obserue that commandiment
Cain past in the Orient
With his wyfe, callit Calmana
Quhilk was his awin Syster alswa
Quhare his ofspryng, did lang remane
Besyde the Montane of Tarbane
And Seth did lang tyme lede his lyfe
With Delbora, his prudent wyfe
Quhilk wes his Syster gude and fair
In Damassene, maid thare repair
In that countre of Sethis clan
Discendit mony holy man
So lang as Adam wes leueand
The peple did obserue command
Quhen he wes dede, and laid in ground
And peple greitly did abound
And Cayn slane, as I haue schawin
And Sethis dayis, all ouer blawin
The Sonnis than of Sethis blude
Seand the plesand pulchritude
Off the Ladyis, of Caynnis kyn
Quhowbeit thay knew weill, it wes Syn
Opprest with sensuall lustis rage
Did tak thame in to Mariage
And so corruptit wes that blude
The gude with euyll, and euyll with gude
[Page]Than as the peple did incres
Thay did abound in wickitnes
As holy Scripture dois rehers
Quhilk I abhor, to putt in vers
Or tell with toung, I am nocht abyll
The suthe bene so abhominabyll
Quhow men, and wemen, schamefullye
Abusit thame selfꝭ, vnnaturallye
Quhose foull abhominatioun
And vncouthe fornicatioun
I thynk gret schame, to putt in wryte
All that Paull Orose, doith indyte
Quhilk gyf I wald at lenth declair
It wer yneuch, to fyill the air
Gret Clerkꝭ of Antiquiteis
Hes wryttin mony trew storeis
Quhilkꝭ ar worthy to be commendit
Quhowbeit thay be nocht comprehendit
At lenth in the Diuyne Scripture
Bot I sall do my besye cure
To tak the best (as I suppose)
That moste pertenis my purpose
And with support, of Christ our kyng
I purpose to confirme no thyng
Off the Auld Hystoricience
Contrarious, tyll his excellence
Quhowbeit sum mennis Traditionis
Contrar Chrystis Institutionis
Off thame thocht sum thyng I declair
[Page]Now latt ws proceid forthermair
And with ane Language lamentabyll
Declare this mater miserabyll,
Cour.
¶Father the causis wald I knaw
Quhy thay of nature, brak the Law
Expe.
I traist (quod he) that wyckitnes
Generith throw sleuthfull ydilnes
The Deuyll with all the craft he can
Quhen he persauis ane ydill man
Or woman geuin tyll ydilnes
He gettis eaisalye entres
And so be this occasioun
And be the Feindis perswasioun
The hole warld vniuersalye
Corruptit was alluterlye.
Cour.
Quhat wes the cause, thay ydill ware
That cace (quod I) to me declare
Expe,
(Quod he) be my Imaginatioun
For laik of vertuous Occupatioun
For of Craftꝭ, thay had small vsage
Off Marchandyce, nor lawborage
The erth than wes so plentuous
Off fruct, and Spyce, delicious
The herbis wer so confortabyll
Delytesum and Medicinabyll
The Fontannis fresche and redolent
To laubouryng, thay tuke lytill tent
All maner of beistis at thare plesour
Did multyplie, without laubour
[Page]The tyme betuix Adam and Noye
To se the erth, it wes gret Ioye
Plantit with precious treis of pryce
Four famous Fludis of Paradyce
Ran throw the erth, in syndrie partis
Spreddyng thare branchis, in all airtis
The walter was so strang and fyne
Thay wald nocht laubour to mak wyne
The fruct, and herbis, wer so gude
Thay maid no cair, for vther fude
And so the peple tuke no cure
Bot past thare tyme, at thare plesure
Ay fyndand new Inuentionis
To fulfyll thare Intentionis
So that the Lord Omnipotent
That he maid man, did hym repent
And schew on tyll his Seruand Noye
That he wald all the warld distroye
Except hym self, and his Meinȝe
Allace (quod Noye) quhen sall that be?
Than said the Lord, sen thow so speris
I sall Prolong, sax score of ȝeris
Tarying vpone thare repentence
Or I fulfyll my Iust Sentence
In the mene tyme, fall thow to warke
Incontinent, and beild ane Arke
Quhilk Noye began, Obedientlye
And wrocht on it Continuallye
And to the peple daylie precheit
[Page]To cry for grace, he to thame techeit
And to thame planelye did declair
That God his wand no more wald spair
Bot on thame he wald wyrk vengence
To Noye ȝit gaue thay no credence
And so thay wer Incounsolabyll
Vsyng thare luste abhominabyll
And tuke his precheyng in dispyte
Ay followyng thare foull delyte
More and more, tyll that dulefull day
Quhilk all the warld, pat in affray
Cour.
¶Father, ȝe gart me vnderstand
Quhen Adam brak the Lordꝭ command
Tyll agment his afflictioun
God gaue his Maledictioun
On to the erth, quhilk wes so fair
That it suld barren be, and bair
And without laubour beir no corne
Nor fruct, bot thirsyll, breir, and thorne
Now say ȝe in, the tyme of Noye
To se the erth, it wes gret Ioye
Plantit with fructis gude and fair
The suthe of this, to me declair
Thir sayingꝭ two, gar me consydder
Quhow ȝe mak thame, agre to gydder
God maid that promys, sickerlye
Quhowbeit, it come nocht instantlye
Expe.
(Quod he) as Clerkis dois conclude
Bot efter quhen the furious Flude
[Page]Distroyit the erth, alluterlye
Than come that promys sickerlye
Ewin siclyke as God gaue command
Adam to twyche nocht with his hand
Nor eait of the, forbiddin tree
Geue he did so, that he sulde dee
Quhowbeit he deit nocht but weir
Efter that day nyne hundreth ȝeir
Rychtso the Propheit EsayasEsay .ix.
Speikand of Christ, the gret Messias
Sayand the Bairne, is tyll ws borne
To saif mankynd quhilk is forlorne
As he had bene borne Instantlye
Ȝit wes he nocht borne veralye
Efter that saying mony one ȝeir
As in the Scripture, thow may heir
Ane thousand ȝeir, quho reknyth rycht
Is bot one hour, in Goddis sychtii. Pet. iii
Exemplis mony, I mycht tell
Wer it nocht tedious, for to dwell
Tyll our purpose, latt ws proceid
Schawand the heycht, and lenth and breid
And qualitie, of Noyis Arke
Quhilk wes ane rycht excellent warke
Off Pyne tre, maid bound weill about
Laid ouer with pik, within and out
Iunit full close, with nalis strong
And wes thre hundreth Cubittꝭ long
Fifty in breid, thretty in heycht
[Page]Thre Chalmeris Iunit weill and wycht
And euerilk loft, aboue ane vther
Withouttin anker, air, or ruther
Ane rycht Cubeit, as I heir tell
Off misour now, mycht be ane ell
In the myd syde, ane dur thare wes
For Beistis, ane easy entres
This Ark quhilk was boith lang and lairge
Maid in the bodum, lyke one Bairge
Couerit with burdis weill abufe
Moste lyke ane housse, with sett on rufe
Quhose rigyng wes ane Cubeit braid
Quharein thare wes, ane wyndo maid
Sum sayis, weill closit with Christall cleir
Quharethrouch the day lycht, mycht weil appeir
This Work the more wes to be prysit
Because be God, it wes deuysit
Gen. vii.
The makyng of this Ark, but weir
Indurit weill ane hundreth ȝeir
¶Quhē Noye had done compleit this wark.
God did hym close, within the Ark
With hym his Wyfe, and Sonnis thre
With thare thre Wyfis, but mo menȝe
And of all foulis of the air
Off euerilk kynd, enterit ane pair
Rychtso two Beistis, of euerilk kynde
For quhy, it wes the Lordis mynde
That generatioun suld nocht faill
Quharefor of Fameill, and of Maill
[Page]Off euerilk kynd wer keipit two
Bot to rehers, myne hart is wo
The dolent Lamentatioun
That tyme of euerilk Natioun
Sayand allace ane thousand syis
Quhen wynd, and rane, began to ryis
The Roikꝭ with rerd, began to ryue
Quhen vglie cluddis, did ouerdryue
And dirkynnit so, the Heuinnis brycht
That Sonne, nor Mone, mycht schaw no lycht,
The terrabyll trymling of erth quaik
Gart Biggyngis bow, and Cieteis schaik
The thounder raif, the cluddis sabyll
With horrabyll sound, appouentabyll
The fyreflauchtis flew, ouerthorte the fellis
Than wes thare nocht, bot ȝowtis and ȝellis
Quhen thay persauit, without remede
All Creature, to suffer dede
All Fontanis frome the erth vp sprang
And frome the Heuin, the rane doun dang
Fourty dayis, and fourty nychtis
Than ran the Peple, to the heychtis
Sum clam in cragis, sum in treis
And sum to heychast montanis fleis
With more terrour nor I can tell
Bot all for nocht, the fludis fell
And wynd did rowt, with sic ane reird
That euerilk wycht, waryit his weird
Cryand allace, that thay wer borne
[Page]Into that flude, to be forlorne
Men mycht no help, mak to thare wyfis
Nor ȝit support thare bairnis lyfis
The Fludis rose, with so gret mychtis
That thay ouer couerit all the heychtis
Thay mycht no more, thare lyuis lenth
Bot swame so lang, as thay had strenth
And so with cryis Lamentabyll
Endit thare lyuis Miserabyll
Aboue montanis, that wer moste hie
Fifty Cubitis, rose the see
Men may Imagyne in thare mynd
All Creature, in to thare kynd
Boith Beistꝭ, and Foulis in the air
In thare maneir, maid mekle cair
The Fyschis thocht thame euyll begyld
Quhen thay swame throuch the woddis wyld
Quhalis tumbland amang the treis
Wyld Beistis, swomand in the seis
Byrdis with mony pietuous pew
Afferitlye in the air thay flew
So lang as thay had strenth to flee
Syne swatterit doun in to the see
No thyng in erth, wes left on lyue
Beistis, nor Foulis, Man, nor Wyue,
God holelye did thame distroye
Except thame in the Ark with Noye
The quhilk lay fleittand on the flude
Welterand amang the stremes wode
[Page]With mony terrabyll affrayis
Remanit ane hundreth and fyfty dayis
In gret langour, and heuynes
Or wynd, or rane, began to ceis
Sumtyme effectuouslye prayand
Sumtyme the Beistis vesiand
For be the Lordis commandiment
He maid prouisioun suffecient
For Noye dwelt in that Ark but dout
Ane ȝeir compleit, or he come out
Quhow at more lenth, in holy wryte
This dulefull storye, bene IndyteGen. viii
And quhow that Noye, gan to reiose
Quhen Conductis of the heuin did close
So that the Rane, no more discendit
Nor the flude, no more ascendit
Quhen he persauit the heuinnis cleir
He send furth Corbe Messingeir
In to the Air, for to espy
Geue he saw ony montanis dry
Sum sayis the Rauin, did furth remane
And come nocht to the Ark agane
Furth flew the Dow, at Noyis command
And quhen scho did persaue dry land
Off ane Olyue, scho brak ane branche
That Noye mycht knaw the walter stanche
And thare no more, scho did sudiorne
Bot with the branche, scho did returne
That Noye mycht cleirly vnderstand
[Page]That felloun Flude, was decressand
And so it did, tyll at the last
The Ark vpone the ground stak fast
On the tope of ane Montane hye
Into the land of Armanye
And quhen that Noye, had done espye
Quhow that the erth, began to drye
Than dang he doun, the durris all
And lowsit thame, the quhilk wes thrall
The foulis flew, furth in the air
And all the Beistis, pair, and pair
Past furth to seik, thare pastorages
Thare wes than, bot aucht Personages
Noye, his thre Sonnis, and thare wyuis
On erth, that left was with thare lyuis
Quhome God did blys, and Sanctyfie
Sayand incres, and multyplie
God wait geue Noye, wes blyith and glaid
Quhen of that presoun, he wes fraid
Quhen Noye had maid, his Sacrifyce.
Thankand God, of his Benifyce
He standand on mont Armanye
Quhare he the countre, mycht espye
Ȝe may beleue, his hart was sore
Seyng the erth, quhilk wes affore
The Flude so plesand, and perfyte
Quhilk to behald, wes gret delyte
That now was barren maid and bair
Afore, quhilk fructuous was and fair
[Page]The plesand treis, beryng fructis
Wer lyand rewin vp, be the rutis
The holsum herbis, and fragrant flouris
Had tynt boith vertew, and cullouris
The feildis grene, and fluryst meidis
Wer spulȝeit of thare plesand weidis
The erth quhilk first, wes so fair formit
Wes be that furious flude deformit
Quhare vmquhyle wer, the plesand planis
Wer holkit Glennis, and hie montanis
Frome clattryng cragis, gret and gray
The erth was weschin, quyte away
❧Bot Noye, had gretast displesouris
Behauldand, the dede Creatouris
Quhilk wes ane sycht, rycht Lamentabyll
Men, Wemen, Beistis, Innumerabyll
Seyng thame ly, vpone the landis
And sum wer fleityng on the strandis
Quhalis, and Monstouris, of the seis
Stickit on stobbis, amang the treis
And quhen the Flude was decressand
Thay wer left welteryng on the land
Affore the Flude, duryng that space
The sey wes all, in to ane place
Rycht so the erth, as bene desydit
In syndrie partis, wes nocht deuydit
As bene Ewrope, and Asia
Deuydit ar, frome Africa
Ȝe se now diuers Famous Ilis
[Page]Stand frome the mane land mony mylis
All thir gret Ilis, I vnderstand
War than equall, with the ferme land
Thare wes none sey, Mediterrane
Bot onely, the gret Occiane
Quhilk did nocht spred, sic bulryng strandis
As it dois now, ouirthort the landis
Than be the ragyng of that flude
The erth of vertew, wes denude
The quhilk afore, wes to be prysit
Quhose bewtie than, wes dissogysit
Than wes the Maledictioun knawin
Quhilk wes be God, tyll Adam schawin
I reid quhow Clerkis dois conclude
Induryng that moste furious flude
With quhilk the erth, wes so supprest
The wynd blew furth, of the southwest
As may be sene, be experience
Quhow throw the watterꝭ violence
The heych montanis, in euery art
Ar bair forgane, the southwest part
As the Montanis, of Parraneis
The alpis, and Rochis, in the seis
Rycht so the Rochis, gret and gray
Quhilk standis into Norroway
The heychast hyllis, in euery art
And in Scotland, for the moste part
Throuch weltryng of, that furious flude
The Cragis of erth, war maid denude
[Page]Trauellyng men, may consydder best
The montanis bair, nyxt the southwest
¶Declare (quod I) or ȝe concludeCour.
Quhow lang leuit Noye, efter the flude
(Quod he) in Genesis, thow may heirExpe.
Quhow that Noye, wes sax hundreth ȝeir
The tyme of this gret punysmentGene. ix.
And aye to God obedient
And wes the best of Sethis blude
And als he leuit efter the Flude
Thre hundreth and fyfty ȝeris
As the sam scripture wytnes beris
And wes or he Randerit the spreit
Nyne hundreth, and fyfty ȝerꝭ compleit
To schaw this storie Miserabyll
At lenth my wyttis ar nocht abyll
And als my Sonne, as I suppose
It langis nocht tyll our purpose
To schaw quhow Noyis Sonnis thre
Gan to Incres and multyplie
Nor quhow that Noye, plantit the wyne
And drank tyll he wes dronkin syne
And sleipit with his membris bair
And quhow Cham, maid for hym no cair
Bot leuch, to se his Father so
Quhowbeit his Brether wer rycht wo
Nor quhow Noye, but restrictioun
Gaue Cham his Maledictioun
And put hym vnder Seruytude
[Page]To Sem and Iaphet, that war gude
Nor quhow God maid ane conuenent
With Noye, to mak no punysment
Nor be no Flude, the peple droun
In signe of that conditioun
His Rane Bow sett, in to the air,
Off diuers Heuinlye colouris fair
For to be ane perpetuall sing
Be Flude to mak no punyssing
This Story, geue thow lyste to knaw
At lenth the Bibyll sall the schaw
FINIS
❧Heir endis the first Part. ❧ And Followis the Secunde Part.

In the First the Beildyng of Babilone be Nemrod. And quhow kyng Nynus began ye first Monarche. And of thare Ydolatrye. And Quhow Semeramis, Gouernit the Im­pyre, Efter hir Husbande Kyng Nynus. As Followis.[Page] ❧ FATHER I pray ȝow to me tell.Cour.
The First Infortune that befell
Immediatlye efter the Flude
And quho did first, sched saikles blude
And quho Ydolatrye began
¶ (Quod he) I sall do as I canExpe.
Efter the Flude, I fynde no Storye
Worthy to putt in Memorye
Tyll Nemrod, began to RyngGene. x.
Aboue the Peple, as ane Kyng
Quhilk wes the Principall man of one
That beilder was, of Babilone
☞ That Story Maister, wald I knawCour.
(Quod I) geue ȝe the suthe wald schaw
Quhy, and for quhat occasioun
Thay beildit sic ane strang Dungeoun?
¶Than said to me ExperienceExpe.
I sall declare with Deligence
Those Questionis at thy command
Bot first Sonne, thow mon vnderstand
Off Nemrod, the Genologie
His strenth, Curage, and Quantitie
Quhowbeit Moyses, in his first Buke
That Story, lychtlye did ouer Luke
Off hym no more, he doith declare
Except he was ane strang Huntare
Bot vtheris Clerkis Curious
As Oroce doith, and Iosephus
Discryuis Nemrod, at more lenth
Boith of his stature, and his strenth
This Nemrod was, the fourt persoun
[Page]Frome Noye be lyne, discendyng doun
Noye generit Cham, Cham generit Chus
And Chus Nemrod, the suthe bene thus
This Nemrod grew ane man of mycht
That tyme in erth, wes none so wycht
He wes ane Gyane, stout and strang
Perforce wyld beistis, he doun thrang
The peple of that hole Regioun
Come vnder his Dominioun
No man thare wes in all that land
His stalwartnes that durst ganestand
No maruell wes, thocht he wes wycht
Ten Cubitis large, he wes of hycht
Proportionat, in lenth and breid
Afferand to his hycht we reid
He grew so gret and glorious
So prydefull, and presumptuous
That he come Inobedient
To the gret God Omnipotent
This Nemrod was, the principall man
That first Ydolatrye began
Than gart he all the peple call
To his presens, boith gret and small
And in that gret conuentioun
Gene. xi.
Did propone his Intentioun
My Freindis (said he) I mak it knawin
The gret wengeance that God hes schawin
In tyme of our fore Father Noye
Quhen he did all the warld distroye
[Page]And dround thame in ane furious flude
Quharefor I thynk we sulde conclude
Quhov we maye make one strang defence
Aganis sick walteris violence
For to resyste his furious Yre
Contraye boith to flude and fyre
Latt ws go spye sum plesand feilde
Quhare one strang biggyng we maye beilde
One Cityie with ane strang Dungeoun
That none Ingyne may ding it doun
So heych, so thike, so large, and lang,
That Gode tyll ws sall do no wrang
Itt sall surmonte the Planetis, sewin
That we frome Gode, may wyn the hewin
Those peple with one ferme intent
All tyll his counsell did consent
And did espy one plesand place
Harde on the flude of Euphratace
The peple thare did thame prepair
In to the plane feilde of Synear
Quhilk now of Caldie beryth the name
Quhilk did lang tyme flureis in fame.
¶Thare gret Fortres, than did thay founde
And kaiste tyll thay gat souer groune
All fell to warke boith man and chylde
Sum holkit claye, sum brynt the tylde
Nembroth, that curious Campioun
Deuysar wes of that Dungeoun
No thyng thay sparit thare laubouris
[Page]Lyke besy beis vpone the flouris
Or Emettis trauelling in to Iune
Sum vnder wrocht, and sum aboue
With strong Ingenious masonrye
Vpwarte thare weir did fortifye
With  [...]rynt tylde stonis, large and wycht
That Towre thay rasit to sic hycht
Abufe the airis Regioun
And Iunit of so strong fassioun
With Syment maid of pyk and tar
Thay vsit none vther mortar
Thocht fyre or walter it assalit
Contrare that Dungeoun nocht aualit
The land aboute wes fair and plane
And it rose lyke one heych montane
Those fuliche peple did intende
That to the Hewin, it sulde ascende
So gret one strenth wes neuir sene
In to the warld with mennis eine
¶ The wallis of that wark thay maid
Two and fyftye faldome braid
One faldome than as sum men sayis
Mycht bene two faldome in our dayis
One man wes th [...]n of more stature
Nor two be now thareof be sure.
¶Iosephus haldis opinioun
Sayand the heycht of this Dungeoun
Off large pasis of mesure bene
[Page]Fyue thousande, aucht score, and fourtene
Be this raknyng, it is fuil rycht
Sax mylis, and ane half in hycht
Ane thousande pais tak for ane myle
And thow sall fynd it neir that style
This towre in compass round aboute
Wer mylis ten, withouttin doute
Aboute the Cetie of stagis
Foure houndreth, and four score I wys
And be this nommer in compas
Aboute, three score of mylis It was
And as Orotius reportis
Thare wes fyue score of brasin portis.
¶ The translatour of Orotius
In tyll his Cronicle wryttis thus
That quhen the Sonne is at the hycht
Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht
The schaddow of that hydduous strenth
Sax myle and more, it is of lenth
Thus maye ȝe Iuge in to ȝour thocht
Gyfe Babilone be heych or nocht.
IFNIS.

Quhov god maid the Dyuersitie of Languagis. And maid Impediment to the Beildaris of Babilone[Page]Expe.
THAN the gret God Omnipotent
To quhom al thingis bene p̄sent
That wer, and is, and euir salbe
Ar present tyll his Maiestie
The hid secretis of mānis hart
From his p̄sens may not depart
He seand the Ambitioun
And the prydefull Presumptioun
Quhov thir proude peple did pretende
Vpe throuch the heuinnis, tyll ascende
Quhilk wes gret folye tyll deuyse
Sick one presumptuous interpryse
For quhen thay wer moste delygent
Gode maid thame sick impediment
Thay wer constranit with hartis sore
Frome thyne depart and beild no more
Sick Languagis on thame he laid
That none wyste quhat ane vthir said
Quhare wos bot ane Language affore
Gode send thame Languagis three schore
¶ Affore that tyme all spak Ebrew
Than sum began for to speik Grew
Sum Duche, sum language Sarazyne
And sum began to speik Latyne
The Maister men, gan to go wylde
Cryand for treis, thay brocht thame tylde
Sum said bryng mortar heir atonis
Than brocht thay to thame stoks, and stonis.
¶ And Nembroth, thare gret Campioun
[Page]Ran rageand lyke one wylde Lyoun
Manassyng thame with wordis rude
Bot neuir one worde thay vnderstude
Affore thay fand hym gude and kynde
Bot than thay thocht hym by his mynde
Quhen he so furiouslie did flyte
Than turnit his pryde, in to dispyte
So dirk Eclipsit wes his glore
Quhen thay wald wyrk for him no more
¶Beholde quhov God wes so gratious
To thame quhilk wer so outtragious
He nother braik thare leggis nor armis
Nor ȝit did thame none vther harmis
Except of toungis diuysioun
And for fynall conclusioun
Constranit thay wer for tyll depart
Ilke cumpanye in one syndrie arte
Sum paste in to the Orient
And sum in to, the Occident
Sum south, sum north, as thay thocht best
And so thare poleysie left west
Bot quhov that Citie wes reparit
Heir efter it salbe declarit.
FINIS.

Of the first inuentiōn of Ydolatrie. Quhow Nembroth, compeld the Peple tyll adore the Fyre in Caldia.[Page]Cour.
NOVV Schir (said I) schaw me the man▪
Quhilk first Ydolatrie began
That sall I do with all my hart
Expe.
My Sonne (said he) or we depart
Quhen Nembroth saw his purpose falit
And his gret laubour nocht aualit
In maner of contemptioun
Departit furth of that regioun
And as Orotius, doith rehers
He past in to the land of Pers
And mony one ȝeir, did thare remane
And syne to Babilone come agane
And fand huge peple of Caldie
Remanand in that gret Citie
That wer glaid of his returnyng
And did obey hym as thare kyng
Nembroth his name for tyll auance
Amang tham maid new ordinance
Sayand I think ȝe ar nocht wyce
That to none God, makis Sacrifyce
¶ Than to fulfyll his fals desyre
He gart be maid ane flammand fyre
And maid it of sic breid and hycht
He gart it byrn boith day and nycht
Than all the peple of that land
Adorit the fyre at his commmand
Prosternit on thare kneis and facis
Beseikand thare new God of gracis
To gyf thame more occasioun
[Page]He maid thame gret perswasioun
This God (said he) is moist of mycht
Schawand his bemys on the nycht
Quhen Sonne, and Monne, ar baith obscu [...]e
His he winlie brychtnes doith indure
Quhen mennis memberris sufferit calde
Fyre warmyth thame ewin as thay walde
¶Than cryit the Peple at his desyre
Thare is no God, except the fyre
Or thare was ony Ymagerie
Began this first Ydolatrie
Att that tyme, thare wes none vsage
To carue, nor for to paynt Image
Than maid he proclamatioun
Quho maid nocht adoratioun
To that new God, without remede
In to that fyre, sulde suffer dede
I fynd no man in to that lande
His tyrannie that durste ganestande
Bot Habraham, and Aram his brother
That disobeyit, I fynd none vther
Quhilk dwelland war, in that cuntre
With thare Father callit Thaire
Thir brether Nembroth, did repreue
Sayand tyll hym, Lord with ȝour leue
This fyre, is bot ane Element
Praye ȝe to God Omnipotent
Quhilk maid the Heuinnis, be his mycht
Sonne, Monne, and sterris, to gyf lycht
[Page]He maid the fyschis in the seis
The erth, with beistis, herbis, and treis,
And last of all, for to conclude
He maid Man to his similitude
To that gret God gyfe pryse and glore
Quhose Ring induris euermore.
¶ Than Nembroth in his furious yre
Thir brether boith keste in the the fyre
Habraham be God, he wes preseruit
Bot Aram in the fyre he staruit
Quhen Thara, harde his sonne wes dede
He did depart out of that stede
With Habraham, Nachor, and thare wyffis
As the Scripture at lynthe discryffis
And left the land of Caldia
And paste to Mesopotamia
And dwelt in Tharan all his dayis
And deit thare, as the story sayis
The lyfe of Habraham, I supose
No thyng langith tyll our purpose
In to the Bibyll thov may reid
His verteous lyfe in worde and deid
Now to the I haue schawin the man
That firste Ydolatrie began.
FINIS.

Of ye gret misere and skaythis that cumis of Weris. And quhow king Nynꝰ began the first weris, and straik the first Battell.[Page] FATHER I pray ȝov with my hart
Declair to me or we depart
Quho first began thir mortall Weris
Quhilk euerilk faithfull hart efferis
And euere polesye doun thrawis
Express agane the Lordis lawis
Sen Christe, our kyng omnipotent
Left Peace, in tyll his Testament
Quhov doith proceid this creueltie
Aganis Iustice, and Equitie
In lande quhare ony Weris bene
Gret Miserrie thare may be sene
All thyng on erth, that God hes wrocht
Weir, doith distroye and puttis at nocht
Ceteis, with mony strang Dungeoun
Ar brynte, and to the erth, doung doun
Virginis and Matronis, ar deflorit
Templis, that Rychelie bene decorit
Ar brynt and all thare Preistis spulȝeit
Pure Orphelenis vnder feit ar fulȝeit
Mony auld men maid childerles
And mony childer fatherles
Off famous Sculis the Doctryne
Boith natural science and Diuyne
And euerilk vertew trampit doun
No reuerence done to relegioun
Strenthis distroyit alluterlie
Fair Ladyis forcit schamefullie
Ȝoung Wedowis spulȝeit of thare spousis
[Page]Pure Lauborars, houndit frome thare housis
Thare dar no Merchand tak on hand
To trauell nother be sey nor land
For Boucheouris, quhilk dois thame confounde
Sum murdrist bene, and sum ar drounde
Craftis men of curious Ingyne
Alluterlie put to rewyne
The Bestiall reft, the commonnis slane
The land but lauboring doith remane
Off Pollesye, the perfyte warkis
Beildingis, Gardyngis, and plesand parkis
Alluterlie distroyit bene
Gret graingis brynt thare may be sene
Ryches bene turnit to powertie
Plentie in tyll penuritie
Deith, Hounger, Darth, it is weill kende
Off Weir, this is the Fatell ende
Iustice turnit in tyrrannye
All plesour in aduersitye
The Weir, alluterlie doun thrawis
Boith the Ciuill, and Cannoun lawis
Weir, generit Murthour, and myscheif
Sore lamentyng withoute releif
Weir, doith distroye Realmes and kyngis
Gret Princis, weir to presoun bryngis
Weir, scheddis mekle saikles blude
Cour.
Sen I can saye of weir no gude
¶ Declare to me Schir gyf ȝe can
Quho first this Miserrie began
FINIS.

[Page]
❧ Heir followith ane Schorte Discriptioun of the Four Monarchis. ☞ And quhow Kyng Nynus, began the First Monarchie.OF Weris (said he) the gret outtrage
Began in to the secunde aigeExpe.
Be creuell prydefull, couytous, kyngis
Reuarris but rycht of vtherꝭ ryngis
Quhowbeit Cayam afore the flude
Wes first schedder of saikles blude
Nynus was first and principall man
Quhilk wrangus conquessing began
And was the man withouttin faill
In erth, that straik the first battell
And first Inuentit Imagerye
Quhare throw came gret Idolatrye
¶We moste knaw or we forthair wend
Off quhome king Nynus did discend
Nynus gyf I can rycht defyne
He was frome Noye, the fyft be lyne
Noye, generit Cham, Cham, generit Chus,
And Chus, Nembroth, Nembroth, Bellus,
And Bellus, Nynus, but lesing
Off Assiria, the secund king
And beildar of thar gret Citie
The quhilk was callit Nyniue
[Page]And wes the first and principall man
Quhilk the first Monarchie began.
Cour.
¶ Father (said I) declaire to me
Quhat signifyis one Monarchie
Expe.
The suith (said he) sonne gyfe thov knew
Monarchie bene one terme of Grew
As quhen one Prouince principall
Had hole power Imperiall
During thare Dominationis
Abufe all Kyngis and Nationis
One Monarchie that men doith call
Off quhome I fynd four principall
Quhilk heth rong sen the warld began
Cour.
Than (said I) Father gyf ȝe can?
Quhilk four bene thay, schaw me I pray ȝow
My sone (said he) that sall I say ȝow
Expe.
¶ First rang the kings of Asserianis
Secundlye rang the Persianis
The Grekis thridlye with swerd and fyre
Perfors optenit the thrid Impyre
The fourte Monarche as I heir
The Romanis brukit mony one ȝeir
Latt vs first speik of Nynus king
Quhov he began his Conquessing
¶The auld Greik Historitiane
Diodorus he wryttis plane
Att rycht gret lenth of Nynus king
Off his Impyre and conquessing
And of Semeranus his wyfe
[Page]That tyme the lustyest one lyfe
Itt wer to lang to putt in wryte
Quhilk Diodore heth done indyte
Bot I sall schaw as I suppose
Quhilk maist belangith thy purpose,
¶Quhen Nembroth, Prince of Babilone
Oute of this wrechit warld wes gone
And his Sonne Bellus deid alswa
The first Kyng of Asseria
This Nynus, quhilk wes secunde kyng
Tryumphandlie began tyll ryng
And wes nocht satifyit nor content
Off his awin Regione, nor his rent
Thynkand his glore for tyll aduance
By his gret peple and puissance
Throuch Pryde, Couatyce, and vaine glore
Did hym prepare to conques more
And gadtherit furth ane gret Armie
Contrare Babilone, and Caldie
Quhareof he had ardent desyre
Tyll Iune that land tyll his Impyre
Quhowbeit he had thareto no rycht
Bot by his tyrranry and mycht
Withouttin feir of God or man
His Conquessing thus he began.
¶ His peple beand in arraye
To Caldia tuke the reddy waye
Quhen that the Babilonianis
To gidther with the Caldianis
[Page]Hard tell Kyng Nynus, wes cumand
Maid proclamationis throuch the land
That ilke man efter thare degre
Sulde cum and saif thare awin cuntre
Quhowbeit thay had no vse of weir
Thay past fordwart withouttin feir
And pat thame selfis in gude order
To meit king Nynus on the border
In that tyme ȝe sall vnderstande
Thare wes no harnes in the lande
For tyll defende nor tyll Inuaid
Quharethrow more slauchter thare wes maid
Thay faucht throw strenth of thare bodeis
With gaddis of Irne, with stonis, and treis
¶With sound of horne, and hydduous cry
Thay ruschit to gidther rycht rudly
With hardy hart, and strenth of handis
Tyll thousandis deid, lay on the landis
Quhare men in battell nakit bene
Gret slauchter sone thare may be sene
Thay faucht so lang and creuellie
And with vncertane victorie
No man mycht Iuge, that stude on far
Quho gat the better, nor the war
Bot quhen it did approche the nycht
The Caldianis, thay tuke the flycht
Than the kyng and his cumpanye
Wer rycht glaid of that victorye
Because he wan the first battell
[Page]That strykkin wes in erth, but faill
And peceably of that Regioun
Did tak the hole Dominioun
Than wes he king of Caldia
Alsweill as of Asseria
As for the king of Arrabie
In his conquest maid hym supplie
¶Off this ȝit wes he nocht content
Bot to the Realme of Mede he went
Quhare Farnus king of that cuntre
Did meit hym with one gret armie
Bot king Nynus, the battell wan
Quhare slane wer mony nobyll man
And to that king wald gyf no grace
Bot planelie in one publict place
With his se win Sonnis, and his Ladie
Creuellie did thame Crucifie
Off that tryumphe he did reiose
Syne fordwart to the feilde he gose
Than conquest he Armenia
Perce, Egypt, and Pamphelia
Capadoce, Leid and Maritane
Gaspia, Phrigia▪ and Hyrcane,
All Affrica, and Asia,
Except gret Ynde, and Battria,
Quhilk he did conques efterwart
As ȝe sall heir or we depart
Now wald I or we forthee mend
That his Ydolatrye wer kend
[Page]Syne efter that withoute sudiorne
Tyll our purpose we sall returne.
FINIS.

Quhov king Nynꝰ, Inuentit the First Ydolatrie of Ymagis.NYNVS one Ymage he gart mak.
For King Bellus, his Fatheris saik
Moist lyke his Father of figoure
Off quantite and portratoure
Off fyne Golde wes that figour maid
Ane crafty Croun apone his haid
With precious stonis in toknyng
His father Bellus wes ane Kyng
In Babilone he ane tempyll maid
Off crafty work boith heych and braid
Quharein that Ymage gloriouslie
Wes thronit vpe tryumphandlie.
¶Than Nynus gaif ane strait command
Tyll all the peple of that land
Alsweill in tyll Asseria
As in Synear, and Caldia
Vnder his Dominatioun
Thay suld make Adoratioun
Apone thare kneis to that figour
Vnder the pane of forfaltour
Thare wes no Lorde in all that land
His summonding that durst ganestand
Than ȝoung, and auld, boith gret and small
[Page]Tyll that Ymage thay prayit all
And cheangit his name as I heir tell
Frome Bellus to thare gret God Bell
In that tempyll he did deuyse
Preistis for tyll mak sacrifyse
Be conswetud than come one law
None vther God that thay wald knaw
And als he gaif to that Ymage
Off Sanctuarie the Priuilage
For quhat sum euer transgressour
One homicede or oppressour
Seand that Ymage in the face
Off thare gylt gat the kyngis grace.
¶Declare to me sweit schir (said I)Cour.
Wes thare no more Ydolatry
Efter that this fals Idole Bell
Wes thronit vp as ȝe me tell
¶ My Sonne (said he) incontinent
The nowellis throuch the warld thay wentExpe.
Quhow king Nynus, as I haif said
One curious Image he had maid
To the quhilk all his natioun
Maid deuote adoratioun
Than euerye cuntre tuke consait
Thay wald king Nynus contrafait
Quhen ony famous man wes deid
Sett vp one Image in his steid
Quhilk thay did honour frome the splene
As it Immortall God had bene
[Page]Imagis sum maid for the nonis
Off fyne gold, sum of stokis and stonis
Off syluer sum, and Euyr bone
With diuers namis tyll eueryone
For sum thay callit Saturnus
Sum Iupiter, sum Neptunus
And sum thay callit Cupido
Thare god of lufe, and sum Pluto
Thay callit sum Mercurius
And sum the wyndie Eolus
Sum Mars, maid lyke ane man of weir
Inarmit weill with sword and speir
Sum Bacchus, and sum Apollo
Off namis thay had ane houndreth mo
¶ And quhen one Lady of gret fame
Wes dede, for tyll exalt hir name
One Image of hir portratour
Wald set vpe in one oratour
The quhilk thay callit thare goddes
As Venus, Iuno, and Palles
Sum Cleo, sum Proserpina
Sum Ceres, Vesta, and Diana
And sum the gret goddes Mynarue
With curious collouris thay wald carue
Amang the Poetis, thow may see
Off fals godꝭ the genologee
¶So thir abhominationis
Did spred ouerthort all nationis
Except gude Habraham, as we reid
[Page]Quhilk honourit God, in  [...]
For Habraham had his beginny [...]
In to the tyme of Nynus king
Nynus began with tyrranrie
And Habraham with humy [...]itie
Nynus began the first Impyre
Habraham of weir, had no d [...]syre
Nynus began Idolatrye
Habraham, in spreit and veritye
He prayit to the Lorde allone
Fals Imagry he wald haue none
Off hym discendit I heir tell
The twelf gret Trybis of Israell
Those peple maid adoratioun
With humyll supplicatioun
Tyll hym quhilk wes of kyngis king
That hewin and erth, maid of no thing
Dede Ymagis, thay held at nocht
That wer with mennis handis wrocht
Bot the almychtie God of lyue
My sonne now haif I done discryue
Thir questionis at thy command
The quhilkis thow did at me demand
¶Quhat wes the cause (schir mak me sure)Cour.
Ydolatrye did so lang indure
Outthrouch the warld so generalie
And with the Gentilis specialie
(Quod he) sum causis principall
I fynd in my memoriall
First wes throuch princis commandiment
Quhilk did ydolatrye inuent
[Page]With thare gret deuilische god Dagone
With vtheris Idolis mony one
Bot I abhore the treuth to tell
Off the Princis of Israell
Chosin be God Omnipotent
Quhow thay brak his commandiment
iii. Reg. xi.
Kyng Salomone, as the scripture sayis
He doitit in his latter dayis
His wantoun wyffis, to compleis
He curit nocht God, tyll displeis
And did committ Idolatrye
Wyrschipyng caruit Ymagerye
As Moloch, god of Ammonitis
And Chamos, god of Moabitis
Astaroth, god of Sydoniains
So for his inobediens
And fowle abhominatioun
Wer puneist his successioun
His sonne Roboam, I heir tell
Tynt the ten Trybis of Israell
For his fatheris Ydolatrye
As in the scrpture thow may see.
FINIS.

¶ Off Imageis vsit amang cristin men.[Page]FATHER ȝit ane thyng I wald speirCour.
Behald in euery kirk and queir
Throuch Christindome in burgh and land
Imageis maid with mennis hand
To quhome bene gyffin diuers names
Sum Peter, and Paull, sum Ihone, & Iames,
Sanct Peter caruit with his keyis
Sanct Mychaell with his wyngꝭ and weyis
Sanct Katherine, with hir swerd and quheill
Ane hynde sett vp besyde sanct Geill
It war to lang for tyll discryue
Sanct Frances with his woundis fyue
Sanct Tredwall, als thare may be sene
Quhilk on ane prik heth boyth hir eine
Sanct Paull weill payntit with ane sworde
As he wald feycht, at the first worde
Sanct Apollin on altare standis
With all hir tethe in tyll hir handis
Sanct Rochoe weill seisit men may se
Ane byill new brokin on his thye
Sanct Eloy he doith staitly stand
Ane new hors schoo in tyll his hand
Sanct ringane of ane rottin stoke
Sanct Duthow boird out of ane bloke
Sanct Androw with his croce in hand
Sanct George vpone ane hors rydand
Sanct Anthone sett vp with ane soow
Sanct Bryde, weill caruit with ane koow
[Page]With coistlye colouris fyne and fair
Ane thousand mo I mycht declair
As sanct Cosma and Damiane
The Sowtars sanct Crispaniane
All thir on altare staitly standis
Preistis cryand for thare offrandis
To quhome we Communnis on our kneis
Doith wyrschip all thir Imagereis
In Kirk, in Queir, and in the closter
Prayand to thame our Pater noster
In pylgramage frome town to toun
With offrand, and with orisoun
To thame aye babland on our beidis
That thay wald help ws in our neidis
Quhat differꝭ this, declare to me
Frome the Gentilis Idolatrye
Expe.
¶Gyff that be trew that thow reportis
Itt goith rycht neir thir samyn sortis
Bot we be counsall of Clargye
Hes lycence to mak Imagerye
Quhilk of vnleirnit bene the buikis
For quhen lauid folk vpone thame luikis
Itt bryngith to rememberance
Off Sanctis lyuis the circumstance
Quhow the faith for to fortifye
Thay sufferit pane rycht pacientlye
Seand the Image of the Rude
Men suld remember on the Blude
Quhilk Christ in tyll his Passioun
[Page]Did sched for our Saluatioun
Or quhen thow seis ane portrature
Off blyssit Marie Virgen pure
One bony Babe vpone hir kne
Than in thy mynde remember the
The wordis quhilks the Propheit said
Quhow sche suld be boith Mother and Maid
¶Bot quho that sittis doun on thare kneis
Prayand tyll ony Imagereis
With oritioun or offerand
Kneland with cap in to thare hand
No difference bene, I say to the
Frome the Gentilis Idolatrye
¶Rycht so of diuers nationis
I reid abominationis
Quhow Grekis maid thare deuotioun haill
To Mars, to saif thame in battaill
Tyll Iupiter, sum tuke thare vayage
To saif thame frome the stormys rage
Sum prayit to Venus, frome the splene
That thay thare luffis mycht obtene
And sum to Iuno, for ryches
Thare pylgramage thay wald addres
¶So doith our commoun populare
Quhilk war to lang for tyll declare
Thare superstitious pylgramageis
To mony diuers Imageis
Sum to sanct Rochee with deligence
To saif thame frome the pestilence
[Page]Forthare teith, to sanct Apollene
To sanct Tredwell, to mend thare eine
Sum makis offrande to sanct Eloye
That he thare hors may weill conuoye
Thay ryn, quhen thay haif Iowellis tynte
To seik sanct Syith, or euer thay stynte
And to sanct Germane to get remeid
For maladeis in to thare heid
Thay bryng mad men on fuit and horsse
And byndis thame to sanct Mongose crosse
To sanct Barbara, thay cry full faste
To saif thame frome the thonder blaste
For gude nouellis as I heir tell
Sum takis thare gait to Gabriell
Sum wyffis sanct Margret doith exhort
In to thare byrth thame to support
To sanct Anthony to saif the soow
To sanct Bryde to keip calf, and koow
To sanct Bastien, thay ryn and ryde
That frome the schote he saif thare syde
And sum in hope to gett thare haill
Rynnis to the auld Rude of Kerraill
Quhowbeit thir simpyll peple rude
Think thare intentioun be bot gude
Wo be to Preistꝭ, I say for me
Quhilk suld schaw thame the verratie
Prelatis quhilkis hes of thame the cure
Sall mak answeir thareof be sure
On the gret day of Iugement
[Page]Quhen no tyme beis for to repent
Quhare manyfest Idolatrye
Sall puneist be perpetuallye.

❧ Heir followis [...] Exclamatioun aganis Idolatrie,

IMPRVDENT Peple, Ignorant and blynd
By quhat reasone, law, or authoritie
Or quhat attentyck scripture can ȝe fynd
Leifsum for tyll commyt Idolatrie
Quhilk bene to bow ȝour body or ȝour kne
With deuote humyll adoratioun
Tyll ony Ydoll maid of stone or tre
Geueand thame offerand or oblatioun

Quhy did ȝe gyf the honour laude and glore
Pertenyng God (quhilk maid all thyng of nocht
Quhilk wes, and is, and salbe euirmore)
Tyll Ymagis by mennis handis wrocht
O fulysche folke, quhy haif ȝe succour socht
Off thame quhilk can nocht help ȝow in distres
Ȝit reasonably reuolfe in to ȝour thocht
In stok, nor stone can be non holynes.

¶ In the desert, the peple of Israell
Moyses remanyng in the mont Synaye
Thay maid one moltin Calf, of fyne mettell
Quhilk thay did honour as thare God verrayeExodi. xxxii.
Bot quhen Moyses discendit I heir saye
And did consydder thare Ydolatrye
[Page]Off that peple, thre thousand gart he slaye
As the scripture at lenth doith testifye.

Daniell .xiiii.
¶ Because the holye propheit Daniell.
In Babilone Ydolatrie, repreuit
And wald nocht worschip thare fals Idoll Bell
The hole peple at hym wer so aggreuit
To that effect, that he suld be myscheuit
Delyuerit hym tyll rampand Lyonis sewin
Bot of that dangerous den, he wes releuit
Throuch myrakle of, the gret God of hewin

¶ Behald quhow Nabuchodonosor king
Dan. iii.
In to the vaill of Duran, did prepare
One Image of fyne Gold, one meruallous thing
Thre score of cubyts, heycht and saxin square
As more cleirlye thescripture doith declare
To quhome all peple by proclamatioun
With bodeis bowit, and on thare kneis bare
Rycht humelye maid adoratioun.

¶Ane gret wounder, that day wes sene also.
Quhow Nabuchodonosor, in his yre
Tuke Sydrach, Misach, and Abednago,
Quhilks wald nocht bow thare kne at his desyre
Tyll that Idoll, gart kast thame in the fyre
For to be brynt, or he sterit of that steid
Quhen he beleuit, thay wer brynt bone and lyre
Wes nocht consumit, one small hair of thair heid

¶ The Angell of the Lord wes wt thame sene.
[Page]In that hait furneis passing vpe and doun
In tyll ane rosye Garth, as thay had bene
None spott of fyre, distenyng cote, nor goun
Off victorie, thay did obtene the croun
And wer to thame, that maid adoratioun
To that Ydoll, or bowit thare body doun
One wytnessing of thare dampnatioun

Quhat wes the cause, at me? thow may demande
That Salomone. vsit none Ymagrye
In his tryumphand Tempyll for tyll stande
Off Abraham, Ysac, Iacobe, nor Iesse
Nor of Moyses, thare sauegarde throuch the see
Nor Iosue, thare valȝeant Campioun
Because God did command the contrarye
That thay sulde vse sic superstitioun

¶Behald quhow the gret God Omnipotent
To preserue Israell, frome IdolatryeExodi. xx
Deut. v.
Derectit thame one strait commandiment
Thay suld nocht mak, none caruit ymagrye
Nother of gold, of syluer, stone, nor tre
Nor gyf worschip tyll ony simlytude
Beand in hewin, in erth, nor in the see
Bot onelye tyll his souerane celsitude

¶The Propheit Dauid, planely did repreueBaru. vi.
Ydolatrye to thare confutioun
In grauit stok, or stone, that did beleue
Declaryng thame thare gret abutioun
Spekand in maner of dirysioun
[Page]Quhow dede Idolis, be mennis handis wrocht
Quham thay honourit, with humyll orisioun
Wer in the markat daylie sauld and bocht

☞ The Deuyllis seand the euyll conditioun
Off the Gentylis, and thare vnfaithfulnes
For tyll agment, thare superstitioun
In those Ydolis, thay maid thare entres
And in thame spak, as storyis doith expres
Than men beleuit of thame to gett releif
Askand thame help, in all thare besynes
Bot finallye that turnit to thare myscheif

¶ Traist weill in thame, is none Diuinitie
Quhen reik, & rowst, thare fair colour doith faid
Thocht thay haue feit, one fute thay can not flee
Quhowbeit the tempyll byrn aboue thair haid
In thame is nother freindschip nor remaid
In sic fyguris, quhat fauour can ȝe fynd
With mouth and eris, & eine thocht thay be maid
All men may se. thay ar dum, deif, and blynd

Quhowbeit thay fal doun flatlyngis on the flure
Thay haif none strenth thare self to rais agane
Thocht Rattonis ouir yame ryn thay tak no cure
Quhowbeit yai breik yare neck, thay feil no pane
Quhy sulde men psalmes to thame sing or sane
Sen growand treis, that ȝeirly berith frute
Ar more to pryse, I mak it to the plane
Nor cuttit stockis, wanting boith crope and rute

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☞ Off Edinburgh, the gret Idolatrye.
And manifest abominatioun
On thare feist day, all creature may se
Thay beir ane auld stock Image throuch ye toun
With talbrone, troumpet, schalme, and Clarioun
Quhilk hes bene vsit mony one ȝeir bigone
With preistis, and freris, in to processioun
Siclyke as Bell wes borne throuch Babilone.

¶Aschame ȝe nocht, ȝe seculare prestis and freris
Tyll so gret superstitioun to consent
Ydolateris ȝe haue bene mony ȝeris
Expresse agane the Lordis commandiment
Quharefor brether, I counsall ȝow repent
Gyff no honour, to caruit stock, nor stone
Geue laude and glore, to God Omnipotent
Allanerlie, as wyselie wryttis Ihone.

¶ Fy on ȝow Freris, that vsis for to preche.
And dois assist to sic Idolatrye
Quhy do ȝe nocht, the Ignorant peple teche
Quhow ane dede Image, caruit of one tre
As it wer holy, suld nocht honourit be
Nor borne on Burges backis vp and doun
Bot ȝe schaw planely ȝour Ipocrasie
Quhen ȝe passe formest in processioun

¶Fy on ȝow fostraris of Idolatrye
That tyll ane dede stock dois sic reuerence
[Page]In presens of the peple, publykelie
Feir ȝe nocht God, to commit sic offence
I counsall ȝow do ȝit ȝour diligence
To gar suppresse, sic gret abusioun
Do ȝe nocht so, I dreid ȝour recompence
Salbe nocht ellis, bot clene confusioun

Had sanct Frances, bene borne out throuch ye toun
Or sanct Domnick, thocht ȝe had nocht refusit
With thame tyll haif past in processioun
In tyll that cais, sum wald haif ȝow excusit
Now men may see, quhow that ȝe haue abusit
That nobyll town, throuch ȝour Ipocrasye
Those peple trowis, that thay may rycht weil vsit
Quhen ȝe pas with thame in to cumpanye.

¶Sum of ȝow hes bene quyet counsallouris.
Prouocand princis, to sched saikles blude
Quhilk neuir did ȝour prudent predecessouris
Bot ȝe lyke furious Phariceis denude
Off charitie, quhilk rent Christ on the rude
For Christis floke, without malyce or yre
Conuertit fragyll faltouris I conclude
Be Goddis worde, withouttin sweird or fyre

Reid ȝe nocht quhow, yt Christ hes gyffin cōmand
Math. xviii.
Gyff thy brother doith oucht the tyll offend
Than secretlye correct hym hand for hand
In freindly maner, or thow forther wend
Gyff he wyll nocht heir the, than makit kend
Tyll one or two, be trew narratioun.
[Page]Gyf he for thame wyll nocht his mys amend
Declare hym to the congregatioun

¶And gyf he ȝit remanith obstinat
And to the holy kirk Incounsolable
Than lyke ane Turke, hald hym excomminicat
And with all faithfull folk abhominabyll
Banysing hym, that he be no more able
To dwell amang the faithfull cumpanye
Quhen he repentis, be nocht vnmerciable
Bot hym ressaue agane rycht tenderlye

¶Bot our dum Doctoris, of Diuinitie
And ȝe of the last fonde religioun
Off pure Transgressouris, ȝe haue no petie
Bot cryis to put thame to confusioun
As cryit the Iowis, for the effusioun
Off Christis blude in to thare byrnand yre
Crucifige, so ȝe with one vnioun
Cryis, fy, gar cast that faltour in the fyre

Vnmercifull memberis, of the AntichristRoma. xvi.
Extolland ȝour humane traditione
Contrar the Institutione of ChristEphe. v.
Effeir ȝe nocht, Diuine punytione
Thocht sum of ȝow be gude of conditione
Reddy for to ressaue new recent wyne
I speik to ȝow, auld bosis, of perditione
Returne in tyme, or ȝe ryn to rewyne.

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.iii. Reg. xviii.
¶As ran the peruerst Prophetis of Baall.
Quhilkis did consent, to the Idolatrye
Off wickit Achab king of Israell
Quhose nommer wer, four hundreth and fyftie
Quhilkis honourit that Idoll opinlye
Bot quhen Elias, did preue thare abusioun
He gart the peple sla thame creuellye
So at one hour, came thare confusioun.

☞I pray ȝow prent in ȝour remembrance.
Quhow the reid Freris, for thare Idolatrye
In Scotland, Ingland, Spane, Italy, & France
Vpone one day, wer puneissit pietuouslye
Behald quhow ȝour awin brether now laitlye
In Duchelād, Inglād, Dēmark, and Norowaye
Ar trampit doun, with thare Ipocrasye
And as the snaw, ar meltit clene awaye

I maruell yat our Byschoppis thynkꝭ no schame
To gyf ȝow freris sic preheminens
Tyll vse thare office, to thare gret diffame
Precheing for thame in opin audiens
Bot mycht A Byschope eik tyll his awin expens▪
For ilk Sermone ten Ducatis in his hand
He wald or he did want that recompens
Go preche hym self, boith in to buigh and land,

¶ I traist to se gude reformatione
Frome tyme we gett ane faihfull prudent king
Quhilk knawis the treuth, and his vocatione
[Page]All Publicanis, I traist he wyll doun thring
And wyll nocht suffer in his realme to ring
Corruppit Scrybis, nor fals Pharisiens
Agane the treuth, quhilk planely doith maling
Tyll that kyng cum, we mon tak paciens.

Now fairweill freindis, because I can nocht flyte
Quhowbeit I culde, ȝe mon hald me excusit
Thocht I agane Ydolatrye Indyte
Or thame dispyte that wyl nocht ȝit refusit
I praye to God, that it be no more vsit
Amang the rewlaris of this Regioun
That commoun peple, be no more abusit
Bot gyf hym glore, that bair the creuell croun

Quhilk techeit ws, be his deuine Scripture
Tyll rycht prayer the perfyte reddy way
As wrytith Matthew, in his sext Chepture
In quhat maner, and to quhome we suld pray
One schort compendious orisone euerilk day
Most proffitabyll, for boith body and saull
The quhilk is nocht derectit I heir say
To Ihone, nor Iames, to Peter nor to Paull.

¶Nor none vther of the Apostlis twelf.
Nor to no Sanct, nor Angell in the Hewin
Bot onely tyll our Father God hym self
Quhilk orisione, it doith contene full ewin
Most proffitabyll, for ws petetionis sewin
[Page]Quhilk we lawid folk, the Pater Noster call
Thocht we say Psalmis, nyne ten or alewin
Off all prayer, this bene the principall

Be reasoun of the makkar, quhilk it maid
Quhilk wes the Sonne of God, our Saluiour
Be reasoun als, to quhome it suld be said
Tyll the Father of hewin, our Creatour
Quhilk dwellis nocht, in tempyll nor in tour
He cleirlye seis our thocht, wyll, and intent,
Quhat nedith ws, at vtheris seik succour
Quhen in all place, his power bene present

¶Ȝe princis of the preistis that suld preche
Quhy suffer ȝe so gret abutionn
Quhy do ȝe nocht the sempyll peple teche
Quhow, and to quhome, to dresse thare orisoun
Quhy thole ȝe thame, to ryn frome toun to toun
In Pylgramage, tyll ony Ymagreis
Hopand to gett thare sum Saluatioun
Prayand to thame, deuotlye on thare kneis.

☞This wes the prettike of sum pylgramage,
Quhen fillokis in to Fyfe, began to fon
With Ioke, & Thom, thā tuke thay yare vayage
In Angusse, tyll the feild Chapell of Dron
Than Kyttoke thare als cadye as ane Con
Without regarde, other to Syn or schame
Gaiff Lowre leif, at layser to loupe on
Far better had bene, tyll haif biddin at hame.

[Page]
¶ I haue sene pass, one meruellous multytude.
Ȝong men and wemen flyngand on thare feit
Vnder the forme, of feynit sanctytude
For tyll adore one Image in Loreit
Mony came with thare marrowis for to meit
Committand thare fowll fornicatioun
Sum kyst the claggit taill of the Armeit
Quhy thole ȝe this abominatioun

¶ Off Fornicatioun and Idolatrye
Apperandlye ȝe tak bot lytill cure
Seand the maruellous Infelicitye
Quhilk heth so lang done in this land indure
In ȝour defalt, quhilk heth the charge and cure
This bene of treuth, my Lordis wt ȝour leue
Sic pylgramage heth maid mony one hure
Quhilk gyf I plesit, planelye I mycht preue.

¶Quhy mak ȝe nocht, the scripture manifest.
To pure peple, twyching Idolatrye
In ȝour precheing, quhy haif ȝe nocht exprest
Quhow mony kyngꝭ of Israell creuellye
Wer puneissit be God so rigorouslye
As Ieroboam, and mony mo but doute
For wyrschippyng, of caruit Imagerye
War frome thare realmes rudlye rutit outeiii. Reg. xiii.

¶Quhy thole ȝe onder ȝour Dominioun.
Ane craftye preist, or fenȝeit fals armeit
Abufe the peple of this Regioun
[Page]Onely for thare perticular profeit
And speciallye that Heremeit of Lawreit
He pat the comoun peple in beleue
That blynd gat seycht, and crukit gat thare feit
The quhilk that palȝard no way can appreue.

Ȝe maryit men, that hes trym wantoun wyffis,
And lusty dochteris, of ȝoung tender aige
Quhose honestie, ȝe suld lufe as ȝour lyffis
Permyt thame nocht, to passe in pylgramage
To seik support, at ony stok Image
For I haue wyttin, gud wemen passe fra hame
Quhilk hes bene trappit, with sic lustis rage
Hes done returne, boith wt gret syn and schame

¶Gett vpe thow slepist all to lang, O Lorde
And mak one haistie reformatioun
On thame quhilk doith tramp doun yi gratious worde
And hes ane deidly Indignatioun
Att thame quhilk makith trew narratioun
Off thy Gospell, schawing the verytie
O Lord I mak the supplicatioun
Supporte our Faith, our Hope, and Charytie.

FINIS.

Heir follouis quhov Kyng Nynus Beildit the gret Citie of Nyniue, And quhow he Vincuste ȝoroastes, the Kyng off Bactria.[Page] THIS Nynus of Asseria king
Quhē he had maid his ꝯquessīg
To beild one Citie he hym drest
Chosīg ye place quhare he thocht best
Quhare he had first dominioun
In Asseria his awin regioun
Thocht Assur as ye scriptur saysGene. x.
Quhilk come affore king Nynus dayis
And foundit that famous Citie
The quhilk was callit Nyniue
Bot as rehersis Diodore
Nynus that Citie did decore
So maruellous tryumphantlye
As ȝe sall heir Immedeatlye
Vpone the flude of Euphrates
Quhilk to behauld gret wounder wes
One hundreth and fyftye stagys
That Citie wes of lenth I wys
The wallis one hundreth fute of heycht
No wounder was thocht thay wer wycht
Sick breid abufe the wallis thare was
Thre cartis mycht sydlingꝭ on thame pas
Four hundreth stageis and four score
In circuit but myn or more
Off towris aboute those wallis I wene
Ane thousand, and fyue hundreth bene
Off heycht two hundreth fute and more
As wryttis famous Diodore
The scripture makis mentioun
[Page]Iona. iii.
¶ Qhen God send Ionas to that toun
To schaw thame of his puneisment
Outthrouch the Citie quhen he went
Thre dayis Iornay, tyll hym it wes
The Bybill sayis it wes no les
Expe.
My Sonne, now haif I schawin to the
Off the beildyng of Nyniue
For the agmentyng of his fame
Nynus gart call it efter his name
☞Quhen he that gret Citie had endit
To conques more ȝit he intendit
And did depart frome Nyniue
And rasit vp one gret arme
Off the most stalwarte men and stoute
Off all his Regionis rounde aboute
In gret ordour tuke thare Iorna
Towarte the realme of Bactria
Off wycht fute men, I vnderstande
He had sewintene hundreth thousande
Withoute hors men and weirlyke cairtis
Quhome he ordourit in sindry partis
Quhilk tyll discryue I am notht abyll
Quhose nummer bene so vntrowabyll.
¶ Zoroastes, that nobyll kyng.
Quhilk Bactria, had in gouernyng
That prudent Prince, as I heir tell
Did in Astronomye precell
And fand the Art of Magica
With naturall science, mony ma
[Page]Seand king Nynus on the feilde
Fordwart he cam with speir and scheilde
Foure hundreth thousand men he wes
In his Armie thare wes no les
And mett king Nynus on the bordoure
Rycht vailȝantlie, and in gude ordoure
On the Vangarde of his Armie
On thame he ruscheit rycht rudelie
And of thame slew as I heir saye
One hundreth thousand men that day
The rest that chapit wer vnslane
To Nynus gret oiste, fled agane
¶Off that king Nynus wes so noyit
He restit neuir tyll he distroyit
All hoill that Regioun vpe and doun
And frome the King, did reif the croun
And maid the realme of Bactria
Subiectit tyll Asseria
And in that samyn land I wys
He tuk to wyfe Semeramis
Quha (as myne Author dois discryue
Was than the lustiest on lyue
That beand done without sudgeorne
Tyll Nyniue he did returne
With gret tryumphe of victorie
As myne Authore dois specifie
Boith Occident, and Orient
War all tyll hym obedient
It wald abhore the tyll heir red
[Page]The saikles blude that he did sched
Quhen he had roung, as thow may heir
The space of thre and fourtye ȝeir
Beand in his excelland glore
The dolent deith, did hym deuore
In quhat sorte, I am nocht certane
Sum Author sayis that he wes slane
And left tyll bruke his Heretage
One lytill Babe of tender aige
Ȝoung Nynus wes the chyldis name
Quhilk efter fluryste in gret fame
Sum sayis that be his wyffis treasoun
Kyng Nynus deit in presoun
As I sall schaw or I hyne fair
Quhow Diodore hath done declair.
FINIS

Heir followis sum of the vvounderfull dedis of the lustie quene SemeramisNYNVS luffit so Ardentlye
Semeramis, his fair Ladye
Thare wes no thyng scho wald command
Bot al obeyit wes fra hand
Scho seand hym so Amorous
Scho grew proude and presumptuous
And at the king scho did desyre
Fyue dayis to gouerne his Impyre
[Page]And he of his beneuolence
Did grant hir that preheminence
With Sceptour, Crown, and Robroyall
And hole power Imperiall
Tyll fyue dayis wer cum and gone
That scho as king sulde ring allone
¶Than all the Princis of the land
Duryng that tyme maid hir ane band
With bankat Royall myrrellie
Scho treatit thame Tryumphantlie
So the first day the peple all
Came tyll hir seruyce bound and thrall
Bot or the secunde day wes gone
Scho tuke sic glore to ryng allone
Be one decreit maid thame amang
The king scho patt in presone strang
I reid weill of his presoning
Bot nocht of his delyuering
Quhow euir it wes in tyll his flowris
He did of deith, suffer the schowris
And mycht nocht lenth his lyfe one houre
Thocht he wes the first Concreoure
Quhose Conquessing, for to conclude
Wes nocht bot gret schedding of blude
Now haue ȝe hard of Nynus king
Quhow he began, and his ending
Quhowbeid myne Author Diodore
Off hym haith wryttin mekle more
Princis for wrangus conquessing
Doith mak oft tymes ane euyll ending
[Page]Thocht he had lang prosperitie
He endit with miseretie.
FINIS.

❧Off kyng Nynus Sepulture.THE Quene a sepultur sche maid
Quhar sche kīg Nynꝰ body laid
Off curiꝰ crafty wark & wycht
The quhilk had stagis ix. of hyt[?]
& ten stagis of breid it wes
Diodore saith it wes no les
For aucht Stagis one myle thow tak
And thairefter thy nummer mak
So be this compt, it wes full rycht
One myle, als and one stage of hycht
Except the Towre of Babilone
So heych one wark, I reid of none
¶Semiramis, this lustye Quene
Consyddring quhat dainger bene
To haif on King of tender aige
Quhilk mycht nocht vse no vassalage
Scho tuke one curagious consait
Thinkand that scho wald mak debait
Geue ony maid rebellioun
Contrar hir Sonne, or his Regioun
Quhome sche did foster tenderly
[Page]And kepit hym full quyetly
Scho laid apart hir awin cleithyng
And tuke the Rayment of ane king
Quhen scho wes in tyll Armour dycht
Mycht no man knaw hir be one knycht
Scho valȝeantlye went to the weir
And to gyf battell tuke na feir
Dantyng all Realmes rounde aboute
That all the warld of hir had doute
More fortunat in hir conquessing
Nor wes hir Husband Nynus king.
¶Babilone scho did fortyfie
Templis and towris tryumphandlie
So plesandlye did thame prepair
Quhilk in the erth, had no compair
Quhowbeid Nemrod, of quhome I spake
The hydduous dungeoun he gart make
And of the Citie, the Fundiment
To quhome God maid Impediment
Quhare Nemrod left, thare scho began
And pat to wark mony one man
Off all the Realmes round aboute
Off most Ingyne, scho socht thame oute
Scho had wyrkand with tre and stonis
Twell hundreth thousand men at onis
Go reid the buke of Diodore
And thow sall fynd the nummer more
On euerilk syde of Euphrates
That nobyll Citie beildit wes
And so that ryuer of renown
[Page]Ran throuch the mydpart of the town
Ouerthort that flude scho bryggis maid
Off maruellous strenth, boith lang and braid
Thay wer fyue stagis large of lenth
On euerilk bryg, scho maid ane strenth
The circuit as I said affore
Foure hundreth stagis, and four score
The wallis hycht quho wald discryue
Thre hundreth fute thre score and fyue
Sax Cairtis mycht pas rycht easalie
Abufe the wallis of that Citie
Sydlingis withoute Impediment
Consydder be ȝour Iugement
Geue those wallis wer hie or nocht
And also curiouslye wer wrocht
As Diodore hes done defyne
Quhilk doith transcend my rude Ingyne
Off Babilone the magnificens
To quhome ȝe wald gyf no credens
Geue I at lenth, wald put in wryte
Quhilk Diodore, hes done indyte
Compare of Cities fynd I none
Tyll Nyniue, and Babilone
Frome Nyniue, in Asseria
Tyll Babilone in Caldia
By Bryggis plesandlye ȝe may pas
Vpone the flude of Euphratas
Amang the fludis of Paradyce
This Euphratas maye beir the pryce
[Page]All warkis quhilkis the Quene began
Transcendit the ingyne of man
The proude Quene Pantasilia
The Princes of Amasona
With hir Ladyis tryumphandlye
Att Troye, quhilk faucht so wailȝeantlye
Nor ȝit the fair Madin of France
Danter of Inglis Ordinance
To Semeramis in hir dayis
Wer no compare as bukis sayis
Except tryumphand Iulyus
Strong Hanniball, or Pompeyus
Or Allexander the Concreoure
I fynd no gretter Werioure
¶Wald I rehers as wryttis Clerkis
Hir wounderfull and vailȝeand werkis
It wer to me one gret laubour
And tiddious to the Auditour
Quhat scho did in Ethopia
And in the lande of Medea
Beildand Cities, Castellis, and Towris
Parkis, and Gardyngꝭ, of plesouris
For the exaltyng of hir name
And Immortall to mak hir fane
Off Iarcieus, the heych Montanis
Scho gart ryue down, and mak thame planis
Gret Orontes, that Montane wycht
Twenty and fyue stagis of hycht
Tyll hir Palyce, to draw ane louche
[Page]By fors of men scho raif it throche
☞Had scho kepit hir Chastitie
Scho mycht haue bene one A. perse
Quhen scho had ordorit hir Impyre
Off Venus wark, scho tuke desyre
One secreit Mansioun scho gart mak
Quhare scho maist plesandlye mycht tak
Ȝoung Gentyll men, for hir plesour
The quhilk scho vsit abufe mesour
One man allone, mycht nocht be abyll
To stanche hir luste insaciabyll
Quhen scho wes satifyit of one
Scho gart ane vther cum anone
The Lustiest of all the land
Come quyetlye at hir command
Quhen thay at lenth had lyin hir by
Scho slew thame all rycht creuelly
Quhen hir Sone come tyll aige perfyte
Off hym scho tuke so gret delyte
Scho causit hym with hir to lye
Amang the rest rycht quyetlye
Sum sayis throuch sensuall lustis rage
Scho band hym in to Mariage
And held hym vnder tutorye
To vphald hir auctoritye.
✚FINIS.*

❧Quhov the Quene [Page] Semeramis, with one gret Armie, Past to Yade, And Faucht with the Kyng Stawrobates, And of hir Miserrabyll end.QVHEN Scho had lang tyme leuit in rest
To cōques more scho hir addrest
Because of diuers scho hard tell
Quhow that the Ynde Orientell,Expe.
Preceld in gret commoditeis
As Bestiall. Cornis, and fructfull treis
Alkynde of Spyce, delicious
Golde, Syluer, stonis, precious
And quhow that plentuous land did beir
Corne, Frute, and Wyne, twyse in the ȝeir
With Oliphantis Innumerabyll
In Battell wounder tetrabyll
Scho herand this, and mekle more
Beleuand tyll agment hir glore
Gart mak strait Proclamationis
In all, and syndrie Nationis
Schawand quhow it wes hir desyre
All Princis vnder hir Impyre
In Egypt, and Arrabia
In Perce, in Mede, and Caldia
In Grece, in Caspia, and Hyrcane
In Capadoce, Leid, and Maritane
In Armanie and Phrigia
In Pamphilie, and Asseria
That ilke Land efter thare degre
[Page]Sulde bryng tyll hir ane gret Armie
In all the gudlye haist thay may
And meit hir in tyll Bactriay
Declaryng thame that hir intent
Was tyll pas to the Orient
And mak Weir on the king of Ynde
Frome tyme thay knew quhat wes hir myned
Than be thare selfꝭ, ilke Regioun
Come fordwart with thare Garnisoun
Tryumphantlye, in gude array
Tyll Bactria, tuke the reddy way
And maid thare Mostouris to the Quene
Bot sic ane sycht wes neuer sene
In Battell ray so mony one Man
Att onis, sen God the warld began
Bot Spanȝe, France, Scotland, Ingland,
Ducheland, Denmark, nor ȝit Yrland,
War nocht Inhabit in those dayis
Nor lang efter, myne Author sayis
¶ Ethesias, he dois specifie
The noumber of this gret Armie
Sayand thare come at hir command
Fute men, threttye hundreth thousand
Off hors men montit galȝeardlye
Fyue hundreth thousand veralye
One hundreth thousand Camelis wycht
On euerilk Cameill, raid ane knycht
Preparit tyll passe in to all partis
Thare wes ane hundreth thousand Cairtis
[Page]Twoo thousand boittis with hir scho careis
On Hors, Camelis, and Dromodareis
Bryggis for to mak, scho did conclude
Ouerthort Yndus, that furious flude
Quhilk bene of Ynde, the vtmoist bordoure
On the quhilk flude, with rycht gude ordoure
Off hir Bairgis. sche bryggis maid
Quhareon hir gret Oiste, saifly raid
¶ Father I wald men vnderstude
Quhow sic ane maruellous multytudeCour.
Mycht be attonis, brocht to the feild
Reddy to feycht, with speir and scheild
Sum men wyll Iuge, this be ane fabyll
The mater bene so vntrouabyll
¶Itt may weill be my Sonne (said he)
As be exempyll we may seExpe.
Quhow Dauid king of Israell
His peple gart nummer and tell
Be Ioab, his cheif Capitane
As holy Scripture schawis plane
Off feychtand men, in to that land
He fand threttyne hundreth thousand
Sen Dauid in that small countre
Mycht haue rasit sic ane Armie
To this Lady, it wes no wounder
The quhilk had greter Realmes ane hunder
Nor Dauidis lytill Regioun
Thocht scho had mony A Legioun
Off men, mo nor I tauld affore.
[Page]Quhareof the Yndianis tuke affray
Apnoe Camelis, and Dromodareis
Those fals figouris, with hir scho careis
Sere Yndianis, quhen thay saw that sycht
Afferitlye thay tuke the flycht
For sic one sycht, wes neuir sene
Gyff naturall beistis thay had bene
The Kyng hym self wes rycht afferit
Tyll he the veritie had sperit
And knew be his exploratouris
Thay wer bot fenȝeit fals figouris
¶ Than manfullye lyke men of weir
Fordwart thay came withouttin feir
Rycht so Semeramis the Quene
Quhilk for one man wes aye fyftene
Thir two Armeis full creuellye
Thay ruscheit to gydder so rudlie
With hyddous cry and trumpettis sound
Tyll thousandis dede laye on the ground
Semeramis had sic one nummeir
Tyll order thame it wes gret cummeir
Than the gret Elephantis of ynde
Rycht strang and hardy of thare kynde
Ford wart thay came and wald nocht ceis
Tyll throcht the myddis of the preis
Off the gret oist, thay rudlye ruscheit
That men and horsse, tyll erth, trabuscheit
Those fenȝeit beistis withouttin spreit
Wer fruschit and fulȝeit vnder feit
[Page]The king of Ynde with curage kene
Mett with Semeramis the quene
He rydand on ane Eliphand
Bot scho with hym faucht hand for hand
And gaif the king so gret assaye
That he wes neuir in sic affraye
To stryke at hym, scho tuke no feir
So weill sche vsit wes in weir
His strakis scho had bot lytill comptit
Wer nocht the king wes so weill montit
Athir at vther straik so faste
Tyll thay wer tyrit at the laste
¶The king he thocht hym self eschamit
With one woman to be diffamit
And wes determit nocht to flee
Thocht in that Battell he suld dee
As man the quhilk disparit bene
He rudely ran vpone the quene
And throuch the arme gaif hir ane wound
Quhilk tyll hir hart gaif sic one stound
That sche constranit wes to fle
Than all the rest of hir Armie
Quhen thay persauit that scho wes gone
Tyll yndus flude, thay fled ilk one
The Quene ouerthort the flude sche raid
On bryggis quhilkis wer of botis maid
With hir one sobir cumpanye
Quhilk with hir fled affraytlie
The Yndianis followit on the chace
[Page]Than on the Bryggis come sic one prace
Off fleand folkis, quhilk wes gret wounder
So that the Bargis krake in schonder
Sum sank, sum doun the reuar ran
Than drownit thare mony one nobyll man
Quhilk wer gret piete tyll deplore
As wryttis famous Diodore.
¶And fynallie for to conclude
Wes neuer sched so mekle blude
At one tyme sen the warld began
Nor slane so mony one saikles man
And all throw the occasioun
And the prydefull perswasioun
Off this ambitious wyckit Quene
Sick one wes neuir hard nor sene
¶Staurobates the king of Ynde
Gretlye Reioysit in his mynde
Off this tryumphe and victorye
Semeramis with hart full sorye
Seand sa mony tane and slane
Tyll hir countre, returnit agane
Lamentand fortunis variance
Quhilk brocht hir to so gret myschance
Affore quhilk wes so fortunat
And than of confort desolat.
¶Hir Sonne one man of perfectioun
Consyddrand his subiectioun
His lybertie he did desyre
That he mychte gouerne his Impyre
[Page]Seand his Mother vitious
And with that so ambitious
As myne Author doith speci [...]ye
He slew his Mother creuellye
Quhat vther cause, or Intentioun
I fynd no speciall Mentioun
Sum sayis, to be at Lybertie
Sum sayis, for hir Adultrie
None vther cause, I can defyne
Except punissioun deuyne.
¶ Off this fair Lady coragious
Behald the endyng dolorous
Quhilk wes bot twenty ȝeir of aige
Quhen scho began hir vassalage
And rang tryumphandlye but weir
The space of two and fourtye ȝeir
Quhen scho wes slane, scho was thre score
With ȝeris two, scho wes no more
As Diodore wryttis in his buke
His Cronikle, quho lyste to luke.
¶Off this Lady I mak ane end
Thynkand no way, I can commend
Wemen for tyll be to manlye
Nor men for tyll be womanlye
For quhy, It bene the Lordis mynde
All Creature tyll vse thare kynde
Men for tyll haue preheminens
And wemen vnder obediens
Thocht all wemen inclynit be
[Page]Tyll haif the Soueranite
As this Lady, quhilk wald nocht rest
Tyll scho hir Husband had subprest
Tyll that intent that scho mycht ryng
Allone to haif the gouernyng
¶Ladyis no way I can commend
Presumptuouslye quhilk doith pretend
Tyll vse the office of ane kyng
Or Realmes tak in gouernyng
Quhowbeit thay wailȝeant be and wycht
Goyng in Battell lyke one knycht
As did proude Pantasilia
The Princes of Amasona
In mennis habyte aganis reassoun
Siclyke I think dirisioun
One prince to be effaminate
Of knychtlye corage desolate
Neglectand his auctoritie
Throuch beistlye sensualitie
Accompanyit boith day and nychtis
With wemen more than wailȝeant knychtis
Sic kyngis, I discommend at all
Exempyll of Sardanapall.
Cour.
¶Father (said I) schaw me quhow lang
The successioun of Nynus rang
Expe.
That sall I do with diligens
My Sonne (said he) or I go hens
Sen I haif schawin at thy disyre
[Page]Quhat man began the first Impyre
Now wald I it wer to the kend
Off that Impyre the fatell end.
FINIS

Quhov king Sardanapalus, for his vitious life maid ane mise [...]abili end.BETVIX this Conquerour Nynus
And sensuall Sardanapalus
I can nocht fynd no speciall storye
Worthy to put in memorye
Except quhilk I haif done discryfe
Off Semerame king Nynus wyfe
Bot I can fynd no gude at all
To wrytt of kyng Sardanapall
Quhilk wes the saxt and threttye kyng
Be lyne frome Nynus discendyng
At lenth his lyfe for to declare
I thynk it is nocht necessare
Because that mony cunnyng clerkis
Hes hym discryuit in thare werkis
Quhow he wes last of Asserians
Quhilk had the hole preemynans
That tyme of the first Monarche
In Cronicles, as thow may se
The last, and the mo [...] vitious kyng
Quhilk in that Monarche did ryng
That Prince wes so effeminate
[Page]With sensuall luste intoxicate
He did abhor the cumpanye
Off his most nobyll chewalrye
That he mycht haue the more delyte
Tyll vse his beistlye appetyte
Conuersit with wemen nycht and daye
And clothit hym, in thare arraye
So that na man that hym had sene
Could Iuge ane man, that he had bene
So in huredome and harlatrye
Did keip hym self so quyetlye
The Princis of Asserience
Off hym thay could gett no presence
Thus leuit he contynualye
Agane nature Inordinatlye
¶Quhen to the Peirsis and the Medis
Reportit wer his vitious dedis
With the Rewlaris of Babilone
Thay did conclude all in tyll one
Thay wald nocht suffer for tyll ryng
Abufe thame sic ane vitious kyng
Bot Arbates, ane Duke of Mede
He Darflye tuke on hand that dede
¶Bot first he come to Nyniue
To see the kyngis Maiestie
And tyll one of the kyngis gaird
He gaif one secreit ryche rewaird
Tyll put hym in ane quyet place
Quhare he mycht se the kyngis grace
And be on sene with ony wycht
[Page]Bot he saw nother King nor Knycht
In tyll his maisteris cumpanye
Except wemen allanerlye
And as ane woman he wes cled
With wemen counsalit and led
And schamefullye he wes syttand
With Spindle, and with Rock, spinnand
Quhen Arbates that sycht had sene
His corage rasit frome the splene
And thocht it small difycultie
For tyll depryue his Maiestie
¶Than rasit he the Persianis
With Medis and Babilonianis
Inarmit weill with speir and scheildis
Tryumphantlye thay tuke the feildis
¶The king rasit Asserianis
To gidther with the Caldianis
And thame resystit as he mycht
Bot fynallie he tuke the flycht
To saif hym self in Nyniue
Than segit thay that gret Citie
Contynuallie two ȝeir and more
As wryttis famous Diodore
Tyll that the flude of Euphrates
Arrose with sic one furiousnes
Quhare throuch ane gret part of the toun
By violence wes doungin doun
Than quhen the kyng saw no remeid
Bot to be takin or to be deid
As man disparit full of yre
[Page]Gart mak ane furious flammand fyre
And tuke his gold and Iewellis all
With Sceptur, Croun, and Robe Royall,
With all his tender seruituris
That of his Corps, had gretest curis
To gydder with his lustye Quenis
And all his wantoun Concubenis
And in that fyre, he did thame cast
Syne lape hym self, in at the last
Quhare all wer brynt in poulder small
Thus endit kyng Sardanapall
Withouttin ony repentence
As may be sene, be this sentence
☞Heir followyng, quhilk he did indyte
Affore his deith, in gret dispyte
Quhilk is ane rycht vngodly thing
As ȝe maye se be his dyting.
FINIS.

Epitaphium Sardanapali

☞ CVM te mortalem noris, presentibus exple.
Dilitijs animum, post mortem nulla voluptas,
Et venere, & caenis, & plumis SARDANAPALI.

☞ Now haif I schawin with deligence

The Monarche. of Asserience

The quhilk at Kyng Nynus began

And endit at this myscheant Man

And did Indure withouttin weir,

Ane thowsand twa hundreth and fourty ȝeir,

As dois Indyte, Ewsubius,

Reid hym, and thow sall fynd It thus.

FINIS.

Heir endis the secund Part.

[Page]

¶And Begynnis the Thrid Part.

And in the first, Makand Narratione of ye Misara­byll Distructioun of the Fyue Ciereis, callit Sodome, Gomore, Syboin, Segore, and Adama, with thare hole Regioun, and ane schort Discriptioun of the Secund, Thrid, and Ferd. Monar­cheis. With ye Misarabyll Distructioun of Ierusalē And last of the Spiri­tuall Monarchie.❧ FATHER I pray ȝow to me tell
Quhat notabyll thyngis that befellCour.
Duryng the Kyng of Asseriens
Quhilk had so lang prehemynens
I mene of vther Nationis
Vnder thare dominationis
That may be done in termys schorte
(Said he) as storyis doith reporteExpe.
Induryng this first Monarchie
Become that wofull misarie
Off Sodome, Gomore, and thare Regione
As Scripture makis MentioneGen. xix.
Quhose peple wer so sensuall
In fylthie Synnis vnnaturall
The quhilk in to my vulgar veirs
My toung abhorris to reheirs
Lyke brutall beistis by thare myndis
Vnnaturally abusit thare kyndis
[Page]By fylthie stynkand Lychorie
And most abhominabyll Sodomie
As holy scripture doith discryue
In that countre wer Citeis fyue
Quhilk wer Sodome, and Gomora
Seboin, Segore, and Adama
Amang thame all, funde wes thare none
Vndefylit, bot Lott, allone
☞Holy Abraham dwelt neir hand by
Quhilk prayit for Lott, effectuously
For God maid hym aduertysment
That he wald mak sic punyschement
To Lott two Angellis God did sende
Hym frome that furye tyll defende
Quhen the peple of that regioun
Saw the Angellis cum to the toun
Transformit in to fair ȝoung men
Thay purposit thame for to ken
And abuse thame vnnaturallye
With thare foule stynkand Sodomye
Off that gude Lott, wes wounder woo
And offerit thame his Douctheris twoo
Thame at thare plesour for tyll vse
Bot thay his Douctheris did refuse
And than the Angellis be thare mycht
Those men depryuit of thare sycht
And so perfors leitt thame allone
To Lottis lugyng, quhen thay wer gone
Thay hym commandit haistelie
[Page]For tyll depart of that Citie
That foule vnnaturall Lychorie
A vengeance to the hewin did crye
The quhilk did mofe God tyll sic yre
That frome the hewin Brintstone and fyre
With awfull thoundryng, ranit doun
And did consume that hole regioun
Off all that land chapit no mo
Except Lott, and his Douctheris two
His wyfe wes turnit in A stone
So wyfles wes he left allone
For scho wes Inobedient
And kepit no commandiment
Quhen the Angell gaif thame command
Sone tyll depart out of that land
He monyste thame vnder gret pane
Neuer to luke, bakwart agane
Quhen Lottis wyfe, hard the thoundring
Off flammand fyre and lychtnyng
The vgly cryis lamentabyll
Off peple most appouentabyll
For none of thame had fors to flee
Scho ȝarnit that sorrowfull sycht to see
And as scho turnit hir anone
Scho wes transformit in a stone
Quhare scho remanis tyll this daye
Off hir I haue no more to saye
To schaw at leynth I am nocht abyll
That pietious proces lamentabyll
[Page]Quhow Ceteis, Castellis, Tounis and Towris,
Villagis, Bastailȝeis, and Bowris
Thay wer all in to poulder drewin
Forrestis, be the ruttis vprewin
Thare Kyng, thare Quene, and peple all
Ȝong and auld, brynt in poulder small
No Creature wes left on lyfe
Foulis, Beistis, Man, nor Wyfe
The erth, the Corne, herb, frute, and tre
The Babbis, vpone the Noryse kne
Rycht suddantlye in one Instent
Vnwerly come thare Iugement
As it come in the tyme of Noye
Quhen God did all the warld distroye
For that self Syn of Sodomye
And most abhominabyll bewgrye
That vyce at lenth for tyll declare
I thynk it is nocht necessare
¶Quhen all wes brynt, flesche, blud, & bonis
Hyllis, valais, stokis, and stonis
The Cuntre sank for to conclude
Quhare now standith ane vglye flude
The quhilk is callit the dede see
Nixt to the cuntre of Indee
Quhose stynkand strandis blak as tar
The flewre of it, men felith on far
In tyll Orocius, thow may reid
Off that cuntre, the lenth and breid
Of lenth fyftye mylis and two
[Page]And fourtene myle in breid also.
☞Lott of his wyfe wes so agast
That he tyll A. wyld Montane past
Off cumpanye he had no mo
Except his lustye Douchteris two
And be thare prouocatioun
As Moyses makith narratioun
Allone in to that montane wylde
His Douchteris boith, he gat with chylde
For thay beleuit in thare thocht
That all the warld wes gone to nocht
As it become of that Natioun
Thynkand that Generatioun
Wald faill, withoute thay craftellye
Gar thare Father with thame to lye
And so thay fand ane crafty wyle
Quhow thay thare Father mycht begyle
And causit hym, to drynk wycht wyne
Quhilk men to Lychorye doith Inclyne
Quhen he wes full, and fallin on sleip
His Douchteris quyetlye did creip
In tyll his bed, full secreitlye
Prouokand hym with thame to lye
And knew nocht quhow he wes begylde
Tyll boith his Douchteris wer with chylde
And bure two Sonnis in certane
Thay beand in that wyld Montane
Off quhome two Nationis did proceid
[Page]As in the scripture thow may reid
In the quhilk scripture thow may se
Att lenth this wofull misarie
¶This misarie become but weir
Frome Noeis flude, thre hundreth ȝeir
To gidther with four score and alewin
As comptit Carione full ewin
And efter Noeis deith I ges
Ane and fourtye ȝeir thare wes
Quhen Abraham was of aige I wene
Foure score of ȝeris, and nynteine
Quhen this foule Syn of Sodomye
Was puneisit so regorouslyie
Gret God Preserue ws in our tyme
That we commit nocht sic ane cryme.
¶Tiddius It wer for me to tell
This Monarche, duryng quhat befell
And wounderis that in erth wer wrocht
Quhilk to thy pupose langith nocht
Exod. i.
As quhow the peple of Israell
Did lang tyme in to Egypt dwell
And of thare gret puneisioun
Throuch Pharois persecusioun
And quhow Moyses, did thame conuoye
Exod. xiiii.
Throuch the reid sey, with mekle Ioye
Quhare kyng Pharo, rycht misarably
Wes drownit with all his huge army
And quhow that peple wandrand wes
Fourtye ȝeris, in wyldernes
Exod. xx
Moyses that tyme as I heir saye
[Page]Ressauit the Law on Mont Sinay
That tyme Iosue throuch IordanIosue. iii
Led those peple to Canaan
Quhare Saule, Dauid, and Salamone
With Hebrew Kyngis mony one
Did rychelye ryng in that countre
Induryng this first Monarche
¶The Sege of Thebes, misarabyll
Quhare blude wes sched Incomparabyll
Off nobyll men, in to those dayis
With vtheris terribyll affrayis
As quhow the Grekis wrocht vengeance
Apone the nobyll Troyiance
Because that Pareis, did conuoye
Perfors fair Helena to Troye
Quhilk wes king Menelaus wyfe
Quhare mony one thousand loste thare lyfe
¶That tyme the vailȝeant Hercules
Out throuch the warld did hym addres
Quhare he did mony ane douchtye deid
As in his storye thow may reid
And quhow throuch Dyonere his wyfe
That Campione did lose his lyfe
In flammand fyre, full furiouslye
The deith he sufferit creuellye
¶That tyme Remus, and Romolus
Did found that Citie most famous
Off Rome standing in Italie
As in thare storye thow may se
[Page]Wald thow reid Titus Leuius
Thow suld fynd warkis wounderus
Quhose douchtye deidis ar weill kende
And salbe to the warldis ende
Thocht thay he gan with creueltie
And endit with misaritie
As bene the maner to conclude
Off all scheddaris of saikles blude.
¶In Grece the ornat Poetry
Medecene, Musike, Astronomy,
Duryng this first Monarche began
Be Homerus, that famous man
To gydder with Hesiodus
As diuers Auctoris, schawis ws
It wer to lang to put in ryme
The bukꝭ quhilk thay wret in thare tyme
Thir wer the actis principell
That Monarche duryng quhilk befell
Gen. xvii
As for gude Abraham and his seid
In to the Bibyll thow may reid
Quhow in this tyme as I heir tell
Began the Kyngdome Spirituell
As I haue schawin to the affore
Quharefor I speik of thame no more.
FINIS.

Ane Schort Discrip­tioun of the secund. thrid. and ferd Monarche.[Page] ❧ FATHER (said I) quhilk wes the mā.Cour.
That the nyxt Monarchye began
Cyrus (said he) the kyng of Pers
As Cronicles, hes done rehersExpe.
Prudent and full of Pollicye
Began the secunde Monarchye
For he wes the most godly kyng
That euer in Pers or Mede did ryng
For he of his Benyngnitie.ii. Para. xxxxi.
Delyuerit frome Captyuitie
The hole Peple of Israell
In to the tyme of Daniell
The quhilkis had bene presoneris
In Babilone sewin score of ȝeris
Tharefor God of his grace benyng
Gaif hym ane diuyne knawleging
Duryng his tyme as I heir tell
He vsit counsall of Daniell
Carione, at lenth doith specifie
Off his maruellous Natyuitie
And of his vertuus vpbrynging
And quhow he vincuste Cresus king
With mony vther vailȝeant deid
As in to Carione, thow may reid
Quhose Successioun did indure
Tyll the tent Kyng, thareof be sure
¶Bot efter his gret conquessyng
Rycht miserabyll wes his endyng
As Herodotus, doith discryfe
[Page]In Scythia he lost his lyfe
Quhare the vndantit Seethianis
Vincuste those nobyll Persianis
And efter that Cerus wes dede
Quene Tomyre hakkit of his hede
Quhilk wes the quene of Seethianis
In the dispyte of Persianis
Scho kest his heid, for to conclude
In tyll ane vessell full of blude
And said, thir wourdis creuellye
Drynk now thy fyll, gyf thow be drye
For thow did aye blude schedding thryste
Now drynk at laser gyf thow lyste
Efter that Cyrus successioun
Off all the warld had possessioun
¶ Tyll Allexander with swerd and fyre
Obtenit perfors the thrid Impyre
Quhilk wes the king of Macedone
With vailȝeant Grekis mony one
In battell fell and furious
Vincuste the mychtie Darious
Quhilk wes the tent and the last kyng
Quhilk did efter king Cyrus ryng
As for this potent Empriour
Allexander the Conquereour
Geue thow at lenth, wald reid his ryng
And of his creuell conquessyng
In Inglis toung, in his gret buke
Att lenth his lyfe, thare thow may luke
[Page]Quhow Allexander that potent Kyng
Wes twelf ȝeris in his Conquessyng
And quhow for all his gret conquest
He leuit bot ane ȝeit in rest
Quhen be his Seruand secretlye
He poysonit wes full pietuouslye.
¶Lucane doith Allexander compair
Tyll thounder, or fyreflaucht, in the air
One creuell Planeit, A mortall weird
Doun thryngand peple, with his sweird
Ganges that most famous flude
He myxit with the Indianis blude
And Euphrates, with the blude of Pers
Quhose creueltie for to rehers
And saikles blude, quhilk he did sched
War rycht abhominabyll to be red
Efter his schort prosperitie
He deit with gret miseritie.
¶Itt wer to lang for to dissydit
Quhow all his realmes wer deuydit
Aye quhill that Cesar Iulyus
Quhen he had vincust Pompeyus
Wes chosin Emperiour and kyng
Abufe the Romanis for tyll ryng
That potent Prince wes the first man
Quhilk the ferd Monarche began
And had the hole Dominioun
Off euerilk land and Regioun
Quhose successouris, did ryng but weir
[Page]Ouer the warld, mony one hundreth ȝeir
Bot gentyll Iulyus, allace
Rang Empriour, bot lytill space
Quhilk I thynk petye tyll deplore
In fyue Moneth and lytill more
By fals exhorbitant treasoun
That prudent Prince, wes trampit doun
And murdrest in his counsall hous
By creuell Brutus, and Cascius
¶Efter that Iulyus wes slane
Did ryng the gret Octauiane
Off Empriouris one of the best
Duryng his tyme, wes peace and rest
Ouer all the warld, in ilk regioun
As storyis makith mentioun
And als I mak it to the plane
Duryng the tyme of Octauiane
The Sonne of God our Lord Iesew
Tuke mankynd of the Virgine trew
Math. ii.
And wes that tyme in Bethelem borne
To saif mankynde, quhilk wes forlorne
As Scripture makith narratioun
Off his blyst Incarnatioun
¶Now haif I tald the as I can
Quhow the four Monarchyis began
Bot in thy mynde thow may consydder
Quhow warldly power bene bot slydder
For all thir gret Impyris ar gone
Thow seis thare is no Prince allone
[Page]Quhilk hes the hole Dominioun
This tyme of euery Regioun
¶Father quhat reasone, had those kyngisCour.
Reuarris to be of vtheris ryngis
But ony rycht or Iuste querrell
Quhairthrouch that thay mycht mak battell
And commoun pepyll to dounthryng
To this (said I) mak answeryng
My Sonne (said he) that sall be done
As I best can, and that rycht soneExpe.
¶Thir Monarcheis, I vnderstand
Preordinat wer, by the command
Off God, the Plasmatour of all
For to doun thryng, and to mak thrallDani.
Vndantit Peple vitious
And als for to be gratious
To thame quhilk vertuous wer and gude
As Daniell heth done conclude
At lenth in tyll his Propheseis
Quhow thare suld be four Monarcheis
His secund Chepture, thow maye see
Quhow efter the first Monarchie
Quhen Nabuchodonosor kyng
Ane Ymage sawe, in his slepyng
With austeir luke, boith heych and breid
And of fyne pure Gold, wes his heid
His breist, and armes, of syluer brycht
[Page]His wamb of Copper, hard and wycht
His loynis, and lymmis, of Irne, rycht strong
His feit of clay, Irne myxt among
Frome A montane thare come allone
But hand of man, A mekle stone
Quhilk on that Figourꝭ feit did fall
And dang all doun in poulder small.
¶Off quhose Interpretatioun
Doctouris doith mak Narratioun
The hede of gold, did signifye
First of Asserianis Monarchye
The syluer breist, thay did apply
To Persianis, quhilk rang secundly
The wambe of copper, or of brasse
Thridly to Grekis, comparit wasse
His loynis, and lymmis, of Irne, and steill
Clerkis hes thame comparit weill
To Romanis, throuch thare diligence
To haue the Feird Preemynence
Abufe all vther Natioun
Be this Interpretatioun
The myxit feit, with Irne, and clay
Did signifye this letter day
Quhen that the warld sulde be deuydit
As efterwart salbe disydit
To Christ is signifyit the stone
Quhose Monarche sall neuer be gone
For vnder his Dominioun
All Princis sall be trampit doun
[Page]Quhen that gret kyng Omnipotent
Cumis to his generall Iugement
His Monarche than salbe knawin
As efter sall be to the schawin
☞ And als the Scripture, sall the tell
Quhow in the aucht of Daniell
He saw in to his visioun
Be ane plane expositioun
Quhow that the Grekis, sulde wyrk vengeence
Vpone the Medis, and Persience
Comparand Grekis, tyll ane Gote
With ane horne, fers, furious, and hote
Quhilk slew the Ram, with hornis two
Comparit tyll Pers, and Mede, all so
And so be Daniellꝭ prophesyis
All thir gret mychtie Monarchyis
The quhilkis all vther realmes supprysit
Be the gret God, thay wer deuysit
As he of Tytus the Romane
Sonne and Air, to Vespasiane
Maid hym ane Furious Instrument
To put the Iowis, to gret torment
Quhilk I purpose or I hyne fair
Schortlie that p [...]ocesse to declair
✚FINIS.*

Of ye most miserabyl and most terrabill distructioun of Ierusalem.[Page]Cour.
 ❧ FATHER (said I) declare to me.
Induryng this ferd Monarchie
The maist Infortune that befell
Expe.
My Sonne (said he) that sall I tell
The moist and manyfest misarie
Became apon the gret Cetie
Ierusalem, quhen it wes supprest
As storyis makis manifest
Bot as the Scripture doith deuyse
Baru. vi.
Ierusalem wes distroyit twyse
First for the gret Idolatrye
Quhilk thay commyttit in Iowrye
The honour aucht to God allone
Thay gaif Figuris, of stoke and stone
Affore Christis Incarnatioun
Come this first desolatioun
Fyue hundreth ȝeris, four score and ten
In Cronicles, as thow may ken
Quhow Nabuchodonosor kyng
That famous Citie, did doun thryng
Thare Kyng, with peple mony one
Brocht thame all bound to Babilone
Quhare thay remanit Presoneris
The space of thre score and ten ȝeris
And that first desolatioun
Wes callit the Transmigratioun
Wes no man left in all thare landis
Bot Purellis lauborand with thare handis
Tyll mychtie Cyrus, king of Pers
[Page]As Daniell heth done rehers
Wes mouit be God, for tyll restore
The Iowis, quhare that thay wer afore.
¶ Geue I neglect, I wer to blame
The last Sege of Ierusalem
Quhose rewyne wes most miserabyll
And for to tell, rycht terrabyll
Wes neuer in erth, Cetie nor toun
Gatt sic extreme distructioun
The townis of Tyre, Tebes, nor Troye
Thay sufferit neuer half sic noye
The Emprioure Vespasiane
He did deuyse that Sege certane.
¶Thare wes the Prophesie compleit
Quhilk Christ spake on mont OlyueitLuc. x. xxi.
Quhen he Ierusalem beheld
The teris frome his eine disteldMath. xiii.
Seand be Diuyne prescience
The gret distructioun and vengence
Quhilk wes to cum, on that Cetie
His hart wes persit with Petie
Sayand Ierusalem, and thow knew
Thy gret rewyne, sore wald thow rew
For no thyng I can to the schaw
The veritie, thow wyll nocht knaw
Nor hes in consydderatioun
Thy holy visitatioun
Thy peple wyll no way considderMath. xxiii.
Quham gadtherit I wald haif to gidder
[Page]As errand scheip, bene with thare hirdis
Or as the Hen, gadderis hir byrdis
Vnder hir wyngis tenderlye
Quhilk thay refusit dispitfullye
Quharefor sall cum that dulefull day
That no remedy mak thow may
Thy Dungiounis sall be dung in schounder
So that the warld, sall on the wounder
Thy tempyll now most tryumphand
Sall be tred doun amang the sand
Mathew iiii.
And as he said, so it befell
As heir efter I sall the tell.
Cour.
¶Schaw me (said I) with circumstance
The speciall cause of that myschance
Expe.
(Quod he) as scripture doith conclude
For scheddyng of the saikles blude
Off Prophetis quhilkꝭ God to thame send
And als because, that thay myskend
Iesu the Sonne of God Souerane
Quhen he amang thame did remane
For all the Myraklis, that he schew
Maliciouslye thay hym mysknew
Thocht be his gret power diuyne
The walter cleir, he turnit in wyne
Ihon .ii.
And be that self power and mycht
To the blynde borne, he gaif the sycht
And gaif the crukit men thair feit
And maid the lypir haill compleit
Ihon .xi.
He halit all, and rasit the dede
[Page]Ȝit held thay hym at mortall fede
Because he schew the veritieMath.
Thay did conclude that he sulde de
☞The Byschoppis, princis of the preistis
Thay grew so boildin in thare breistisMathew xxvii.
The Scrybis, the Doctouris of the law
Off God nor man, quhilkis stude none aw
On Christ Iesu, to wyrk vengeance
Rycht so the fals Pharesiance
Ane Sect of fenȝeit Religioun
Deuysit his confusioun
And send thare seruandis at the last
And with strang cordis, thay band hym fast
Syne scurgit hym, boith bak and sydeIho. xix.
That none for blude, mycht se his hyde
Thare wes nocht left ane penny breid
Vnwoundit frome his feit tyll heid
In maner of dirisioun
Thay plett for hym, ane creuell croun
Off prunȝeand thornis scharpe and lang
Quhilk on his hewinlye heid thay thrang
Syne gart hym for, the gretter lack
Beir his awin Gallous, on his back
Tyll the vyle place of Caluare
Quhare mony ane thousand man mycht se
¶That Innocent, thay tuke perforce
And platt hym bak wart to the Croce
Throuch feit and handis, gret nalis thay thryst
Tyll blude aboundantlye out bryst
[Page]Without grunschyng, clamor or crye
That pane he sufferit patientlye
And for agmentyng of his grefis
Thay hangit hym, betuix two thefis
Quhare men mycht se the bludy strandis
Quhilkꝭ sprang furth of his feit and handis
Frome thornis thristit on his heid
Ran doun the bulryng stremis reid
In the presens of mony one man
That blude royall on roches ran
Schortly to say that heuinlye Kyng
In extreme dolour, thare did hyng
Tyll he said, Consumatum est.
With A loude crye, he gaif the gaist
Quhen he wes dede, thay tuke one dart
And peirst that Prence, outthrouch the hart
Fra quham thare ran, walter and blude
The erth than trymblit to conclude
¶Phebus did hyde his beymes brycht
That throuch the warld thare wes no lycht
The gret vaill of the tempyll raue
The dede men rais, out of thare graue
And in the Cetie did appeir
As in the Scripture thow may heir
Than Ioseph, of Abaramathie
Did bury hym, rycht honestlie
Bot ȝit he rose, full gloriouslye
Ihon, xx
On the thrid day tryumphandlye
With his Disciplis, in certane
[Page]Fourtye dayis he did remaneActis .i.
Efter that to the heuin ascendit
Thir Iowis no thyng thare lyfe amendit
Nor gaif no credens, tyll his sawis
As at more lenth, the storye schawis
Bot creuellye thay did oppres
All men that Christꝭ name did profes
And persecutit mony one
Thay presonit, boith Peter and IhoneActis .v.
And Stewin, thay stonit to the dede
Frome Iames the les, thay straik the hedeActis .v.
This wes the cause, in conclusioun
Off thare creuell confusioun
¶The prudent Iow, Iosephus sayis
That he wes present in those dayis
And in his buke, makith mentioun
Quhow efter Christis Ascentioun
The space of twa and fourty ȝeris
Began those creuell mortall weris
The secund ȝeir of Vespasiane
Quhare mony takin wer and slane
Iosephus planely doith conclude
Wes neuer sene sic one multytude
Affore that tyme, in to the toun
Quhilk come for thare confusioun
Thare gret Infortune so befell
That all the Princis of Israell
Conuenit agane the tyme of Peace
Bot tyll returne thay had no grace
[Page]The bald Romanis, with thare Chiftane
Tytus the Sonne of Vespasiane
Thare Army, ouer Iudea spred
Than all men to the Ciete fled
Beleuand thare to get releif
Bot all that turnit, to thare myscheif
¶The Romanis lappit thame about
That be no waye, thay mycht wyn out
Sax Moneth, did that Sege indure
Quhare loste wer mony one creature
Quhilkꝭ thare in misary did remane
Tyll thay wer takin all or slane
Duryng the tyme of this assailȝe
Thare meit, and drynk, and all did failȝe
For thare wes sic ane multytude
That thousandꝭ deit for falt of fude
Necessitie gart thame eit perforsse
Dog, Catt, and Rattone, Asse, and horsse
Ryche men, behuffit tyll eait thare gold
Syne deit of hunger mony fold
Sic hunger wes without remeid
The quik behufit tyll eit the deid
The fylth of Closettꝭ, mony eit
To lenth thare lyfe, thay thocht it sweit
¶The famous Ladyis of the toun
For falt of fude, thay fell in swoun
Quhen thay mycht gett none vther meit
Thay slew thare propir Bairnis to eit
Bot all for nocht dispytfullye
[Page]Thare awin sowldiouris full gredelye
Reft thame that flesche, most misarabyll
And thay with murnyng lamentabyll
For extreme hunger ȝald the spreitLuc. xxiiii.
Thare wes the Prophesie compleit
As Christ affore maid narratioun
The day of his grym Passioun
Quhen that the Ladyis for hym murnit
Full pietuouslye he to thame turnit
And said, douchterrꝭ murne nocht for me
Murne on ȝour awin posteritie
Within schort tyme sall cum the day
That men of this Ciete sall say
Quhen thay ar trappit in the snair
Blyst be the wamb, that neuer bair
The baren papis, than thay sall blys
That dulefull day, ȝe sall nocht mys
This prophesie, it come to pas
That day with mony lowde allas
Sic sorrowfull lamentatioun
Wes neuer hard in that natioun
Seand those lustye Ladyis sweit
Deand for hunger in the streit
Thare husbandis, nor thare chyldring
Mycht geue to thame na conforting
Nor ȝit releif thame of thare harmis
Bot atheris deand in vtheris armis
Efter this wofull Indigence
Amang thame rose sic Pestilence
[Page]Quhare in thare deit mony hounder
Quhilk tyll declare, it wer gret wounder
¶And for fynall conclusioun
Those weirlyke wallis, thay dang doun
Prince Tytus, with his Chewalrye
With sound of trompe, Tryumphandlye
He enterrit in that gret Ciete
Bot tyll declare I thynk piete
The panefull clamour horrabyll
Off woundit folk, most miserabyll
Thare wes nocht ellis, bot tak and slay
For thare mycht no man wyn away
The strandis of blude ran throuch the stretis
Off dede folk, trampit vnder fetis
Auld Wedowis in the preis wer smorit
Ȝoung Virginis, schamefully deflorit
The gret Tempyll of Salamone
With mony A curyous caruit stone
With perfyte pynnakles, on hycht
Quhilkꝭ wer rycht bewtyfull and wycht
Quhare in ryche Iowellꝭ, did abound
Thay ruscheit rudlye to the ground
And sett in tyll thare furious yre
Sancta, Sanctorum, in to fyre
And with extreme confusioun
All thare gret Dungionis thay dang doun
¶Thare bursin wer the boildin breistis
Off Byschoppis princis of the preistis
Thare takin wes, the gret vengeence
[Page]On fals Scrybis, and Pharisience
All thare payntit Ipocrasie
That tyme mycht mak thame no supplie
That day thay dulefullye repentit
That to the deith of Christe consentit
Thocht it wes oure Saluatioun
Itt wes to thare Dampnatioun
The vengeance of the blude saikles
Frome Abell tyll ZachariesMathew xxiii.
That day apon Ierusalem fell
Bot tiddius it wer to tell
The gret extreme confusioun
And of blude, sic effusioun
Wes neuer slane so mony ane man
At one tyme, sen the warld began
The Iowis that day gat thare desyre
Quhilk thay did aske, in to thare yre
As bene in Scripture, specifyit
The day quhen Christe wes Crucifyit
Quhen Ponce Pylat, the precedent
Said to thame, I am InnocentMath. xxvii
Off the Iust Blude, of Christ Iesus
Thay cryit, his Blude lycht vpon ws
And on our Generatioun
Thay gat thare Supplicatioun
That day, with mony cairfull cry
Thare blude wes sched aboundantly
¶ Iosephus wryttith in his buke
His Cronicle quho lyste to luke
[Page]Duryng that creuell Sege certane
Wer alewin hundreth thowsand slane
Off Presonaris weill tauld and sene
Foure score of thousandis, and sewintene
Out of the land thay did expell
All the peple of Israell
And for thare gret Ingratytude
Thay leif ȝit vnder Seruytude
Thare is no Iow, in no cuntre
Quhilk hes one fute of propertie
Nor neuer had, withouttin weir
Sen this day fyuetene hundreth ȝeir
Nor neuer sall, I to the schaw
Tyll that thay turne to Christis law
¶Sum sayis, that Iowis mony fald
Wer thretty for ane penny sald
As Iudas sauld the Kyng of Glore
For thretty pennyis, and no more
¶Efter that mony wer myscheuit
Quhen nouellꝭ past, quhow lang thay leuit
Apone thare Gold, withouttin doute
Thay slyt thare bellyis, to sers it oute
The rest in Egypt, thay did sende
Presonaris, to thare lyuis ende
Tytus tuke in his cumpanye
Gret nummer, of the most worthye
With hym to Rome, he led thame bound
Syne creuelly did thame confound
His victory for tyll decore
[Page]And for agmentyng of his glore
Gart put thame in to publict placis
Quhare all folk, mycht behald thare facis
Syne with wyld Lyonis creuellye
He gart deuore thame dulefullye,
¶This hie Tryumphand mychtie toun
At Pasche, wes put to confusioun
Because that in the tyme of Peace
Thay Crucifyit the Kyng of grace
Sum hes this mater done indyte
More Ornatly, than I can wryte
Quharefor I speik of it no more
Onely to God, be laude and glore.
FINIS.

Off ye miserabyllend Off Certane tyrane Princis. And speciallye, the Be­gynnaris, of the Four Monarcheis.NOVV haue I done declare at thy desyris
As thow demandit in to termys schort
And quhow began, the principall impyris
As Cronicle and Scripture dois report
Quhairfor my Sone I hartly ye exhort
Perfytlie prent in yi remēbrance
Off this Inconstante warld the variāc [...]
[Page]Quharefor my Sonne, I mak it to the kend
This warld I wait, is drawand to ane end
¶Tokynnis of darth, hunger, and pestilence
With creuell weris, boith be sey and land
Realme aganis realme, with mortall violence
Quhilk signifyis, the last day ewin at hand
Quharefor my Sonne be in thy faith constand
Rasyng thy hart to God, and cry for grace
And mend thy lyfe, quhil thow hes tyme & space.
FINIS.

Heir followis the fyft Spirituall, And Papall Monarchie.Cour.
 ❧ FATHER Is thare no Prince ringand
Quhilk hes the warld now at cōmand
As had the Kyngis of Asserianis
The Persis, Grekis, or the Romanis
Quho hes now most Dominioun
Off euerilk land and Regioun
Expe.
¶Thare is no Prince, my Sonne (said he)
That hes the principall Monarche
Abufe the warld vniuersall
With hole power Imperiall
As Alexander, or Darius,
Or as had Cesar Iulyus
For Orient, and Occident
To thame wer all obedient
[Page]Nochtwithstandyng, I fynd one kyng
Quhilk in tyll Europe doith ryng
That is the potent Pope of Rome
Impyrand ouir all Christindome
To quhome no Prince, may be compare
As Canon lawis, can declare
All Princis of the Occident
Ar tyll his grace obedient
For he hes hole power compleit
Boith of the body and the spreit
Quhilk neuer had no prince affore
Except the mychtie kyng of glore
To Christe he is gret Lewtennand
In holy Peteris Saitt syttand
So he is of all kyngis Kyng
Quhilkꝭ in to Europe now doith Kyng.
¶And as the Romane Empriouris
Hauyng the warld vnder thare curis
Had Princis, Knychtis, and Campionis
Rewlaris in tyll all Regionis
Vphaldyng thare Aucthoritie
Vsyng Iustice and polisie
¶Rycht so this potent pope of Rome
The Souerane kyng of Christindome
He hes in tyll ilk countre
His Princis of gret grauytie
In sum countreis, his Cardinallis
In thare moste precious apparallis
Archibyschoppis Byschoppis thow may se
[Page]Defendyng his auctoritie
With vther potent Patriarkis
Collegis full of cunnyng Clerkis
Abbottis, and Priourꝭ, as ȝe ken
Misrewlaris of relegious men
Officiallis, with thare Procuratouris
Quhose langsum law, spolȝeis the puris
Archidenis, and Denis, of dignitie
Gret Doctouris of Diuynitie
Thare Chantouris, and thare Sacristanis
Thare Tresoureris, and thare subdenis
Legionis of preistis Seculeris
Personis, Vicaris, Monkis, and Freris
Off diuers Ordouris mony one
Quhilk langsum wer, for tyll expone
In syndrie habitꝭ as ȝe ken
Diffrent frome vther Christin men
Fair Ladyis of Relegioun
Proffessit in euery Regioun
Fals Heremitis, fassonit lyke the freris
Proude parische clerkis, and pardoneris
Thare Gryntaris, and thare Chamberlanis
With thare temporall Courtissianis
Thus all the warld be land and sey
His Sanctitude, thay do obey
Nocht onely his spirituall kyngdome
Bot the gret Empriour of Rome
And Kyngis of euerilk regioun
That day quhen thay resaue thare crown
[Page]Thay mak aith, of fidelytie
Tyll defende his auctorytie
Moreouir, with humyll reuerence
Thay mak tyll hym obedience
Be thare selfis, or Ambassaldouris
Or vtheris ornate Oratouris
Quho doith ganestand his Maiestie
His lawis or his Lybertie
Or haldis ony opinioun
Contrar his gret Dominioun
Outher be way of deid or wourdis
Ar put to deith, be fyre or swourdis
Sanct Peter stylit wes, Sanctus,
Bot he is callit, Sanctissimus,
His style at lenth, gyf thow wald knaw
Thow moste go luke the Canon law
Boith in the Sext and Clementene
His staitly style, thare may be sene
Thare sall thow fynd, reid gyf thow can
Quhow he is nother God norman,
☞ Quhat is he than, be ȝour IugementCour.
Quod I, me thynk hym different
Far frome our Souerane Lord Iesus
And tyll his kynd contrarious
For Christ wes God, and naturall manIhon.  [...].
Gyf he be nother, quhat is he than.
¶The Canon law my Sonne (said he)
That questioun wyll declare to theExpe.
It doith transcend my rude Ingyne
[Page]His Sanctitude for tyll defyne
Or to schaw the aucthoritie
Pertenyng to his Maiestie
So gret one Prince, quhare sall thow fynd
That Spiritually may louse and bynd
Nor be quhame synnis ar forgyffin
Be thay with his Disciplis schrewin
Quhame euer he byndis, by his mycht
Thay boundin ar, in Goddis sycht
Quhame euer he lowsis in erth heir doun
Ar lousit be God in his Regioun
Als he is Prince of Purgatorie
Delyuering Saulis, frome paine to glorie
Off that dirke Dungeoun but doute
Quham euir he plesis, he takis thame oute
Oure secreit synnis euery ȝeir
We mon schaw to sum preist or freir
And tak thare absolutioun
Or ellis we gett no remyssioun
So be this way, thay cleirly ken
The secretꝭ of all seculare men
Thare secretꝭ we knaw nocht at all
Thus ar we to thame bound and thrall
Quhat euir thare Ministeris commandis
Most be obeyit without demandis
Quharefor my Sonne, I say to the
This is ane maruellous Monarche
Quhilk hes power Imperiall
Boith of the body and the Saull
[Page]¶Father (quod I) declare to meCour.
Quhow did begyn this Monarche
(Quod he) Christ Iesus God and ManExpe.
That Impyre gratiouslye began
Nocht be the fyre, nor be the swourdeEphi. i.
Bot be the vertew of his wourde
And left in tyll his Testament
Mony ane deuote documentLuc. ix.
With his Successouris to be vsit
Thocht mony of thame be now abusit
For Peter and Paull, with all the rest
Off thare Brethrin maid manifest
The law of God, with trew intent
Precheing the Auld and New Testament
Thay led thare lyfe in pouertie
Deuot, oun and Humilytie
As did thare Maister Christ Iesus
And war nocht half so glorious
As thare Successourꝭ now in Rome
Impyrand ouer all Christindome.
¶Efter the deth of Peter and Paull
And Christis trew Disciplis all
Thare Successouris within few ȝeris
As at more lenth thare storye beris
Full craftelye clam to the heycht
Frome Spirituall lyfe, to temporall mycht.
¶Father or we passe forther more
Quhen did begyn thare temporall gloreCour.
Sonne (said he) thow sall vnderstandExpe.
[Page]Or euer ane Pape gat ony land
Two and thretty gude papis in Rome
Ressauit the crown of Martyrdome
Bot nocht the Thrinfald Diadame
To weir thre crownis, thay thocht gret schame
Tyll Syluester the Confessoure
Frome Constantene, the Emprioure
Ressauit the Realme of Italie
Rychtso of Rome, the gret Cetie
That wes the rute of thare ryches
Than sprang the well of welthynes
Quhen that the Pape wes maid ane kyng
All Princis bowit at his biddyng
This Act wes done withouttin weir
Frome Christis deith, thre hundreh ȝeir
¶Than Lady Sensualitie
Tuke Lugeing in that gret Cetie
Quhare scho sensyne, hes done remane
As thare awin lady Souerane
Than Kyngis in tyll all Nationis
Maid Preistis gret fundationis
Thay thocht gret mereit and honour
To contrafait the Empriour
As did Dauid of Scotland kyng
The quhilk did founde, duryng his ryng
Fyftene Abbayis, with temporall landis
Withouttin teindis and offerandis
Be quhose holy simplicite
He left the Crown in pouerte
[Page]Now haif I schawin the as I can
Quhow thare temporall Impyre began
Ascendyng vp aye gre by gre
Abufe the Empriourꝭ Maieste
So quhen thay gat amang thare handis
Off Italie, all the Empriours landis
Efter that, in ilke cuntrie
Sprang vp thare temporalite
With so gret ryches, and sic rent
That thay gan to be negligent
In makyng Ministratioun
To Christis trew Congregatioun
And tuke no more paine, in thare precheing
And far les trauell, in thare recheing
Changeing, thare Spiritualitie
In temporall Sensualitie
¶Father thynk ȝe that thay ar sureCour.
That thare Impyre sall lang indure
Apperandlye, it may be kende
Quod he, thare glore sall haue ane endeExp [...].
I mene thare temporall Monarchie
Sall turne in tyll humylitie
Throuch Goddis wourde, without debait
Thay sall turne, to thare first estait
As Daniellis Prophesie apperis
Thareto sall nocht be mony ȝeris
Quhowbeit Christis faith, sall neuer faill
Bot more and more, it sall preuaill
Thocht Christis, trew congregatioun
[Page]Suffer gret trybulatioun
 [...]our.
¶Father (said I) be quhat reassoun
Thynk ȝe thare Impyre may cum doun
Consydderyng thare preheminence
 [...]xpe.
Quod he, for Inobedience
Math. xxviii.
Abusyng the commandiment
Quhilk Christ left in his Testament
Ihon .xv
Vsyng thare awin traditioun
 [...]ti, i.
More than his Institutioun
¶For Christ in his last conuentioun
The day of his Ascentioun
Tyll his Disciplis gaif command
That thay suld passe, in euery land
To teche and preche, with trew intent
His law, and his commandiment
None vther office, he to thame gaif
He did nocht bid thame seik nor craif
Cors presentꝭ, nor offerandis
Nor gett Lordschipis of temporall landis
¶Bot now it may be hard and sene
Baith with thyne eiris, and thyne eine
Quhow Prelatis now in euery land
Takis lytill cure of Christꝭ command
Nother in to thare deidis nor sawis
Neglectyng thare awin Canon lawis
Vsyng thame selfis contrarious
For the most part to Christ Iesus
Mat. iiii.
Christ thocht no schame to be ane Precheour
And tyll all peple, of trewth ane techeour
[Page]Ane pope, byschope, nor Cardinall
To teche nor preche, wyll nocht be thrall
Thay send furth Freris for to preche for thame
Quhilk garris the peple now abhor thame
¶Christ wald nocht be ane temporall kyngIhon .vi.
Rychely in to no realme to ryng
Bot fled temporall auctorite
As in the Scripture thow may se
All men may knaw quhow popis ryngis
In Dignitie abufe all kyngis
Als weill in temporalitie
As in to Spiritualitie
Thow may se be experience
The popis Princely preheminence
In Cronicles geue thow lyst to luke
Quhow Carion wryttis in his buke
Ane Notabyll Narratioun
The ȝeir of oure Saluatioun
Alewin hundreth, and sax and fyftie
Pope Alexander presumptuouslie
Quhilk wes the thrid pope of that name
To Fedrike Empriour did diffame
In Veneis, that tryumphand town
That nobyll Empriour gartly down
Apone his wambe, with schame and lake
Syne tred his feit apone his bake
In toknyng of obedience
Thare he schew his preheminence
[Page]And causit his Clergy, for to syng
Thir wourdis efter following.
¶ SVPER Aspidem & basiliscum ambulabis:
Et conculcabis leonem & draconem.
¶Than said this humyll Empriour
I do to Peter, this honour
The Pope answerit, with wordis wroith
Thow sall me honour, and Peter boith
☞Christ for to schaw his humyll spreit
Did wasche his pure Disciplis feit
The Popis holynes I wys
Wyll suffer Kyngis, his feit to kys
Birdis had thare nestis, and toddis, thare den
Luc. ix.
Bot Christ Iesus, Saiffer of men
In erth, had nocht ane penny breid
Quhare on he mycht, repose his heid
¶Qhowbeit the Popis excellence
Hes Castellis of Magnifycence
Abbottis, Byschoppis, and Cardinallis
Hes plesand palyces royallis
Lyke Paradyse, ar those prelattis places
Wantyng no plesoure, of fair faces
Ihone, Androw Iames, Peter, nor Paull
Actis .iiii
Had few housis, amang thame all
Frome tyme thay knew the veritie
Thay did contempne, all propertie
And wer rycht hartfully content
[Page]Off meit, drynk, and Abilȝement
¶To saif Mankynde that wes forlorne
Christ bure ane creuell crown of thorneIho [...] ▪ i [...]
The Pope thre crownis for the nonis
Off gold, poulderit with pretious stonis
Off gold, and syluer, I am sure
Christ Iesus tuke bot lytill cure
And left nocht quhen he ȝald the spreit
To by hym self, ane wynding scheit.
¶Bot his Successoure gude Pope Iohne.
Quhen he deceisit in Auinione
He left behynd hym one treassoure
Off gold and syluer by mesoure
Be one Iuste computatioun
Weill fyue and twentye myllioun
As dois Indyte Palmerius
Reid hym, and thow sall fynd it thus,
¶Christis Disciplis wer weill knawin
Throuch vertew, quhilk wes be thame schawin
In speciall feruent charitie
Gret pacience, and humylite
The popis floke, in all regionis
Ar knawin best, be thare clyppit crounis
Christ he did honour MatromonyIhon .ii.
In to the Cane of Galaly
Quhare he be his power Diuyne
Did turne the walter in to Wyne
And als chesit sum Maryit men
To be his seruandis as ȝe ken
[Page]And Peter duryng all his lyfe
He thocht no Syn, to haif ane wyfe
Ȝe sall nocht fynd in no passage
Quhare Christ forbiddith mariage
Bot leifsum tyll ilk man to marye
Quhilk wantis the gyft of Chaistitye
¶The Pope hes maid the contrar lawis
In his kyngdome as all men knawis
None of his preistis dar marye wyfis
Vnder no les paine nor thare lyfis
Thocht thay haif Concubynis fyftene
In to that cace, thay ar ouersene
Quhat chaistytie, thay keip in Rome
Is weill kend ouer all christindome
Mat, xvii
¶Christ did schaw his obedience
Onto the Empriouris excellence
And causit Peter for to pay
Trybute to Cesar, for thame tway
Paull biddis ws be obedient
To Kyngis as the most excellent
¶The contrar did Pope Celistene
Quhen that his Sanctytude serene
Did crown Henry the Empriour
I thynk he did hym small honour
For with his feit he did hym crown
Syne with his fute, the crown dang doun
Sayand I haif Auctoritie
Men tyll exalt to dignitie
And to mak Empriouris and kyngis
[Page]And Syne depryue thame of thare Ryngis
Peter be my Opinioun
Did neuer vse sic Dominioun
Apperandlye be my Iugement
That Pope red neuer the new Testament
Gyf he had lernit at that lore
He had refusit sic vaine glore
As Barnabas Peter and Paull
And rycht so Christis Disciplis all
¶The Capitane CorneliusActis
Quhen Sanct Peter come tyll his hous
Tyll worschyp hym fell at his feit
Bot Sanct Peter, with humyll spreit
Did rais hym vpe with diligence
And did refuse sic Reuerence
¶Rychtso Sanct Iohne the Euangelist
The Angellis feit he wald haif kistApoca. xix. & x
Bot he refusit sic honoure
Sayand I am bot Seruitoure
Rychtso thy fallow and thy brother
Gyff glore to God, and to none vther
¶Alykewyis Barnabas and PaullAct. xiiii.
Sic honour did refuse at all
In Listra, quhare thay wroucht gret werkis
The preist of Iupiter, with his clerkis
And all the peple with thare auyse
Wald haif maid to thame Sacrifyse
Off quhilk thay wer so discontent
That thay thare clothyng raif and rent
[Page]And Paull amang thame rudely ran
Sayand I am ane mortall man
Gyf glore to God, of kyngis kyng
That maid heuin, erth, and euery thyng
Sen Peter and Paull, vaine glore refusit
With Popis quhy sulde sic glore be vsit
Peter, Andro, Iohne, Iames, and Paull
And Christis trew Disciplis all
Be Goddis worde, thare faith defendit
To byrne, and skald, thay neuer pretendit
The pope defendis his traditioun
Be flammand fyre without remissioun
Quhowbeit men breik the law Diuyne
Thay ar nocht put to so gret pyne
For huredome, nor Ydolatrye
For Incest nor Adultrye
Or quhen ȝoung Virginnis ar deflorit
For sic thyng, men ar nocht abhorit
Bot quho that eitis flesche in to lene
Ar terriblye put to torment
And gyf ane preist happinnis to marye
Thay do hym baneis, cursse, and warye
Thocht it be nocht aganis the law
Off God, as men may cleirlie knaw
Betuix thir two, quhat difference bene
Be faithfull folke, it may be sene
Sic Antithesis mony mo
I mycht declare quhilkꝭ I lat go
And may nocht tary to compyle
[Page]Off ilk ordour, the staitlye style
The seilye Nun, wyll tkynk gret schame
Without scho callit be Madame
The pure Preist, thynkꝭ he gettꝭ no rycht
Be he nocht stylit lyke ane Knycht
And callit schir, affore his name
As schir Thomas, and schir Wilȝame
All Monkrye, ȝe may heir and se
Ar callit Denis, for dignite
Quhowbeit his mother mylk the kow
He man be callit Dene Androw
Dene Peter, dene Paull, and dene Robart
With Christ thay tak ane painfull part
With dowbyll clethyng frome the cald
Eitand and drynkand, quhen thay wald
With curious Countryng in the queir
God wait gyf thay by heuin full deir
My lorde Abbot, rycht venerabyll
Ay marschellit vpmoste at the tabyll
My lord Byschope, moste reuerent
Sett abufe Erlis in Parliament
And Cardinalis, duryng thare ryngis
Fallowis to Princis, and to Kyngis
The Pope exaltit in honour
Abufe the potent Empriour
The proude Persone I thynk trewlye
He leidis his lyfe rycht lustelye
For quhy, he hes none vther pyne
Bot tak his teind and spend it syne
[Page]Bot he is oblyste be resoun
To preche on tyll perrochioun
Thoucht thay want precheing sewintene ȝeir
He wyll nocht want ane boll of beir
Sum Personis hes at thare command
The wantoun Wencheis of the land
Als thay haue gret prerogatyffis
That may depart ay with thare wyffis
Without Diuors, or summondyng
Syne tak ane vther but woddyng
Sum man wald thynk ane lustye lyfe
Ay quhen he lyst to chenge his wyfe
And tak ane vther of more bewte
Bot Secularis wantꝭ that lyberte
The quhilk ar bound in mariage
Bot thay lyke Rammis in to thair rage
Vnpissillit rynnis amang the ȝowis
So lang as Nature in thame growis
¶And als the Vicar, as I trow
He wyll nocht faill to tak ane kow
And vmaist claith (thoucht babꝭ thame ban)
Frome ane pure selye housband man
Quhen that he lyis for tyll de
Haiffeing small bairnis two or thre
And hes thre ky withouttin mo
The Vicare moist haue one of tho
With the gray cloke, that happis the bed
Howbeit that he be purelye cled
And gyf the wyfe de on the morne
[Page]Thocht all the babis suld be forlorne
The vther kow he cleikꝭ awaye
With hir pure coit of roploch graye
And gyf within tway dayis or thre
The eldest chyild hapnis to de
Off the thrid kow, he wylbe sure
Quhen he hes all than vnder his cure
And Father and Mother boith ar dede
Beg mon the babis without remede
Thay hauld the Corps at the kirk style
And thare it moste remane ane quhyle
Tyll thay gett sufficient souerte
For thare kirk rycht, and dewite
Than cumis the Landis Lord perfors
And cleiks tyll hym ane herield hors
Pure laubourars, wald that law wer doun
Quhilk neuer was fundit be resoun
I hard thame say onder confessioun
That law is brother tyll Oppressioun
¶ My Sonne I haue schawin as I can
Quhow this fyft Monarchie began
Quhose gret Impyre for to report
At lenth the tyme bene all to schort.
FINIS

❧ Heir followis ane Discriptioun of the court of Rome.

[Page]
Cour.
FATHER (said I) quhat rewll keip thay ī rome
Quhilk hes the Spirituall Dominatioun
And Monarchie, abufe all Christindome
Schaw me I mak ȝow supplicatioun
Expe.
My Sonne, wald I mak trew narratioun
(Said he) to Peter, & Paul, thocht thay succeid
I thynk thay preue nocht that in to thare deid.

For Peter Androw & Iohne war fyschearꝭ fyne
Off men and wemen to the christin faith
Bot thay haif spred thare Net with huik and lyne
On rentis ryche, on gold, and vther graith
Sic fyscheing to neglect thay wylbe laith
For quhy, yai haif fyscheit in ouerthort ye strandis
Ane gret part trewlye of all temporall landis

¶With that the tent part of all gude mouebyll
For the vphaldyng of thare digniteis
So bene thare fyscheing, wounder profitabyll
On the dry land als weill as on the seis
Thare herywalter, thay spred in all countreis
And with thare hois nett, daylie drawis to Rome
The most fyne gold, that is in Christindome

¶I dar weill say, within this fyftie ȝeir
Rome hes ressett furth of this Regioun
For Bullis & Benefyce (quhilk thay by full deir)
Quhilk mycht ful weil haif payit a kingꝭ ransōn
Bot war I worthye for to weir ane crown
Preistis suld no more, our substance so consume
[Page]Sendyng ȝeirlye so gret ryches to Rome

In to thare Tramalt nett, thay fangit ane fysche
More nor ane quhaill worthye of memorye
Of quhome thay haue had mony dayntay dysche
Be quhome thay ar exaltit to gret glorye
That maruelous monstour, callit Purgatorye
Howbeit tyll ws, it is nocht amyable
It hes to thame bene veray profytable.

Latt thay that fructfull fysche eschaip thare nett.
Be quhome thay haif so gret commoditeis
Ane more fatt fysche, I traist thay sall nocht gett
Thocht thay wald sers, ouerthort the occiane seis
Adew the daylie dolorous Derigeis
Selye pure preistis may syng wt hart full sorye
Want thay that painefull palyce Purgatorye.

Fairweill Monkrye, wt Chanoun Nun, & Freir
Allace thay wylbe lychtleit in all landis
Cowlis wyll no more be kend in kirk nor queir
Lat thay ye fructfull fysche, eschaip thare handis
I counsall thame to bynd hym fast in bandis
For Peter, Androw, nor Iohne culde neuer gett
So profytable ane Fysche in to thare nett.

¶Thare Merchandyce, in tyll all Nationis.
As prentit lede, thare walx, and perchement
Thare pardonis and thare Dispensationis
Thay do exceid sum temporall princis rent
In sic trafyke, thay ar nocht neglygent
[Page]Off benefyce thay mak gude marchandyce
Throuch Symonye quhilk thay hald lytill vyce

Ioh. xxi.
Christ did command Peter to feid his scheip
And so he did feid thame full tenderlye
Off that command thay take bot lytill keip
Bot Christis scheip, thay spolȝe petuouslye
And with the woll thay cleith thame curiouslye
Lyk gormād wolfis, thay tak of thame thare fude
Thai eit yair flesche, & drynkꝭ boith mylk & blude

¶For that office thay serue bot lytill hyir.
I thynk sic Pastourꝭ, ar nocht for to pryse
Quhilk can nocht gyde yare scheip about ye myir
Thay ar so besye in thare merchandyse
Mat. xvi.
Thocht Peter wes porter of Paradyse
That plesand passage craftelye thay close
Throuch thame rycht few gettꝭ entres I suppose

Mathow .xxiii.
¶Christ Iesus said (as Mathew did report
Wo be to Scribes, and to Pharisience
The quhilkis did close, of Paradyse the port
Off thame we haif the sam experience
To enter thare; thay mak small deligence
Thay tak sic cure in temporall besynes
Rychtso frome ws thay stop the plane entres.

Those spiritual keis quhilkꝭ Christ to Peter gaif
Thare colour cleir wt reik, and rowst ar fadit
[Page]Vnoccupyit thay hald thame in thare neif
Off that office thay serue to be degradit
With Goddis worde without that thay remeid it
Oppinyng ye port quhilk lāg tyme hes bene closit
That we may enter with thame and be reiosit.

¶Contrar tyll Christis Instytutioun
To thame that deis, in habit of ane FreirIohn .x.
Rome hes thame grantit full remissioun
To passe tyll heuin, straucht way withoutin weir
Quhilk bene in Scotland vsit mony ane ȝeir
Be thare sic vertew in ane Freris hude.
I thynk in vane, Christ Iesu sched his blude.

Wald God the Pope quhilk hes preheminence
With aduyse of his counsall generall
That thay wald do thare detfull deligence
That Christis law mycht keipit be ouir all
And trewlye precheit baith to gret and small
And geue to thame Spirituall Auctorite
Quhilk culde perfytlie schaw the Verite.

Quho can not preche a preist sulde not be namit
As may be preuit be the law Diuyne
And be the Canon law, thay ar defamit
That takis Preistheid, bot onely to that fyne
Tyll all vertew thare hartis thay suld inclyne
In speciall to preche with trew intentis
And minister the neidfull Sacramentis.

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As for thare Monkis thair chanounis and thare Freris
And lustye Ladyis of Religioun
I knaw nocht quhat to thare office efferis
Bot men may se thare gret abusioun
Thay ar nocht lyke, in to conclusioun
Nother in to thare wourdis nor thare warkis
To the Apostolis, Prophetꝭ, nor Patriarkis.

Geue presentlye thare Prelatꝭ can nocht preche
Than latt ilke Byschope haif ane Suffragane
Or successour, quhilk can the peple teche
On thare expensis ȝeirlye to remane
To cause the peple frome thare vyce refrane
And quhen ane prelate, hapnith to deceace
Than put ane perfyte precheour in his pleace

Do thay nocht so, on thame sall ly the charge
Geueand vnhable men auctorite
As quho wald mak ane steirman tyll ane barge
Off ane blynd borne, quhilk can no dainger so
Geue that schyp drown, forsuth I say for me
Quho gaif that steirman sic commissioun
Suld of the schip, mak restitutioun

☞The humane Lawis, that ar contrarius.
And nocht conformyng to the Law diuyne
Thay suld expell and hald thame odius
Quhen thay persaue, thame cum to no gude syne
Inuentit bot be sensuall mennis Ingyne
[Page]As that law quhilk forbiddis mariage
Causyng ȝoung Clerkis byrne in lustis rage

¶Difficill is Chaistite tyll obserue.Rom. vi [...].
But speciall grace, lauboure, and abstinence
In tyll our flesche, aye ryngith tyll we sterue
That first Originall syn, Concupiscence
Quhilk we throuch Adamis Inobedience
Hes done Incur, and sall indure for euer
Quhill that our saull and body deith disseuer

Tharefor God maid of Mariage the band
In Paradyse (as Scripture doith recorde)Gene. ii.
In Galelie rycht so I vnderstand
Wes mariage honourit be Christ our LordeIhon .ii.
Auld Law, and New, thare to thay do concorde
I thynk for me, better that thay had sleipit
Nor tyll haue maid ane law, and neuer keipit

¶ Tuke nocht Christ Iesu his Humanitie,Math, i.
Off ane Virgene, in mariage contractit
And of hir flesche, cled his DiuynitieLuc. i
Quhy haif thay done that blysfull band deiectit
In thare Kyngdome, wald God it wer correctit
That ȝoung prelattis, mycht mary lustye wyffis
And nocht in sensuall luste, to leid thare lyffis.

Did nocht Christ cheis, of honest maryit men.
Als weill as thay that kepit Chaistitie
For to be his Disciplis as ȝe ken
As in the Scripture cleirlye thay may se
[Page]Thay keipit styll thare wyffis with honeste
As Peter, and his spousit Bretherin all
Obseruit Chaistitie Matrymoniall.

i Tim. iiii
Bot now apperis the prophesie of Paull
Quhow sum suld ryis, in to the latter aige
That frome the trew faith sulde depart and fall
And suld forbid, the band of Mariaige
Als thow sall fynd, in to that sam passaige
Thay sulde cōmand frome meitis tyll abstene
Quhilk God creat his pepyll to sustene

Bot sen the Pope, our Spirituall prince & kyng
He dois ouerse sic vyces manifest
And in his kyngdome sufferith for to ryng
The men be quhome the veritie bene supprest
I excuse nocht hym self more than the rest
Allace how suld we membris be weill vsit
Quhen so our spirituall heidis bene abusit

¶The famous ancient Doctor Auiceane.
Sayis quhen euyl rewme descendis frome ye heid
In to the membris, generith mekle peane
Without thare be maid haistalye remeid
Quhen that cald humour dounwart dois proceid
In Senownis, it causis Arthetica
Rychtso in to the handis crampe Chiragra.

¶Off Malideis it generis mony mo.
Bot gyf men gett sum Souerane preserue
[Page]As in the theis Siatica Passio
And in the breist, sumtyme the strang Caterue
Quhilk causis men rycht haistellye to sterue
And podagra, difficill for to cure
In mennis feit, quhilk lang tyme dois indure

So to this moste tryumphant court of Rome
This simylitude full weill I may compare
Quhilk hes bene heirschyp of all Christindome
And to the warld ane euyll examplare
That vmquhyle was Lod sterre, & Lumynare
And the moste sapient Sors of sanctytude
Bot now allace vair of Beatytude.

Thare Kyngdome may be callit Babilone
Quhilk vmquhyle was ane brycht HierusalemApo. xviii
As planelye menis the Apostill Iohne
Thare moste famous Citie hes tynt the fame
Inhabitarꝭ thareof, thare nobyll name
For quhy, thay haif of Sanctis Habitacle
To Symon Magus maid ane Tabernacle

And horribyll vaill of euerilk kynd of vyce
Ane laithlye Loch of stynkand Lychorye
Ane curssit Coue corrupt with Couatyce
Bordourit aboute with pryde and Symonye
Sum sayis ane systerne full of Sodomye
Quhose vyce in speciall gyf I wald declair
It wer aneuch, for tyll perturbe the air.

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¶Off treuth the hoill Christin Religioun.
Throuch thame ar scandalizat and offendit
It can nocht faill bot thare abusioun
Affore the Throne of God it is ascendit
 [...]uc. xiii.
I dreid but doute, without that thay amend it
 [...]po. xviii
The plaiges of Iohnis Reuelatioun
Sall fall vpone thare Generatioun.

☞O Lord quhilk hes the hartis of euerilk kyng
In to thy hand, I mak the Supplicatioun
Conuert that Court, that of thair grace benyng
Thay wald mak generall reformatioun
Amang thame selfis, in euerilk Natioun
That thay may be ane holy exemplair
Tyll ws thy pure lawid commoun populair

¶Hungrit allace, for falt of Spirituall fude.
Because frome ws bene hyd the veritie
O Prince quhilk sched for vs thy precious blude
Kendle in ws the fyre of Charitie
And saif ws frome Eterne Misaritie
Now lauboryng in to thy Kirk Militant
That we may all cum to thy kirk Tryumphant.

AMEN.

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Heir endis the thride Part.

And Begynnis the Fourt, Makand Mentioun of the Deith. And of the Antichrist. And Generall Iugemēt. And of Certane Plesouris of Glorifier Bodyis. And quhow euery Creature desyris to se the last Day. With ane Exhortatioun be Experience to the Courtiour. &c.☞(✚)☞
PRVDENT Father ExperienceCour.
Sen ȝe of ȝour beneuolence
Hes causit me for to consydder
Quhow warldlye Pompe, and glore bene slydder
By diuers Storyis, Miserabyll
Quhilkꝭ to reheirs, bene Lamentaby [...]l
Ȝitt or we passe, furth of this vaill
I pray ȝow geue me ȝour counsaill
Quhat I sall do in tyme cumyng
To wyn the glore, Euirlestyng
¶My Sonne (said he) sett thy intent
To keip the Lordis CommandimentExpe.
And preis the nocht to clym ouer hie
To no warldly Auctoritie
Quho in the warld doith moste reiose
Ar farrest aye frome thare purpose
Wald thow leue warldlye vaniteis
And thynk on foure extremeteis
[Page]Quhilkꝭ ar to cum, and that schortlye
Thow wald neuer syn wylfullye
Prent thir four in thy memorye
The Deith, the Hell, and heuinnis glorye
And extreme Iugement Generall
Quhare thow man rander compt of all
Thow sall nocht fail, to be content
Off quyet lyfe, and sobir rent
Considdryng no man can be sure
In erth one hour, for tyll indure
So all warldly prosperitie
Is myxit with gret miseritie
¶ Wer thow Empriour of Asia
Kyng of Europe, and Affrica
Gret Dominator of the sey
And thocht the Heuinnis did the obey
All Fyschis, sowmyng in the strand
All Beist, and Fowle, at thy command
Concludyng thow wer kyng of all
Vnder the heuin Imperiall
In that moste heych auctoritie
Thow suld fynd leist tranquilitie
ii. Par. ix
Exempyll of kyng Salamone
More prosperous lyfe, had neuir none
Eccle. ii.
Sic ryches, with so gret plesoure
Had neuer kyng nor Emprioure
With moste profunde Intelligence
And superexcelland Sapience
His plesand Habitationis
[Page]Precellit all vtheris Nationis
Gardyngis, and Parkis, for Hartis and Hynd [...].
Stankis with fysche of diuers kyndis
Moste profunde Maisterꝭ of Musike
That in the warld, wes none thame like
Sic treasour of Gold, and pretious stonis
In erth, had neuir no kyng att onis
He had sewin hundreth lustye Quenisiii. Re▪ xi
And thre hundreth fair Concubenis
In erth, thare wes no thyng plesand
Contrarious tyll his command
Ȝitt all this gret prosperitie
He thoucht it vaine, and vanitie
And mycht neuir fynd repose compleit
Without afflixioun of the spreit
¶Father (quod I) it maruellis meCour.
He haueand sic prosperite
With so gret ryches by mesoure
Nor he had infynite plesoure
¶My Sonne the suth gyf thow wald knawExpe,
The veritie I sall the schaw
Thare is no warldly thyng at all
May satyfie ane mannis Saull
For it is so Insaciabyll
That Heuin, and Erth, may nocht be abyll
One Saull allone to mak content
Tyll it se God Omnipotent
[Page]Wes neuer none, nor neuer salbe
Saciate that sycht, tyll that he se
Quharefor my Sonne sett nocht thy cure
Math. vi
In erth, quhare no thyng may be sure
Luc. xii.
Except the deith, allanerlye
Quhilk followis man continuallye
Tharefor my Sonne, remember the
Within schorte tyme, that thow mon de
Nocht knawing quhen, quhow, in quhat place
Bot as plesit the Kyng of Grace.
FINIS.

❧ Off the Deith.OF Misarie moste Miserable
Is Deith, and most abhominable
That dreidfurl Dragone with his dartis
Aye reddy for to peirs the hartis
Off euerilk Creature on lyue
Contrar quhose strenth may no man stryue
¶Off dolent Deith, this sore sentence
Wes gyffin throw Inobedience
Off our Parentis, allace tharefore
As I haue done declare affore
Quhow thay, and thare Posteritie
Wer all condampnit for to dee
Quhowbeit the flesche to deith be thrall
God hes the Saull maid Immortall
[Page]And so of his benignytie
Hes myxit his Iustice, with mercie
Tharefor call to remenbrance
Off this fals warld, the variance
Quhow we lyke Pylgramꝭ ewin and morrow
Ay trauellyng throw this vaill of sorrow
Sum tyme in vaine prosperitie
Sum tyme in gret Misaritie
Sum tyme in blys, sum tyme in baill
Sum tyme rycht seik, and sum tyme haill
Sum tyme full ryche, and sum tyme pure
Quharefor my Sonne, tak lytill cure
Nother of gret prosperitie
Nor ȝitt of gret misaritie
Bot plesand lyfe, and hard myschance
Ponder thame boith in one ballance
Considdryng none auctoritie
Ryches, wysedome, nor dignitie
Empyre of Realmes, bewtie, nor strenth
May nocht one day our lyuis lenth
Sen we ar sure, that we moste de
Fairweill all vaine felyscitie.
¶Gretlye it doith perturbe my mynde
Off dolent Deith, the diuers kynd
Thoucht Deith tyll euery man resortis
Ȝitt strykith he in syndrie sortis
Sum be hait Feuerꝭ violence
Sum be contagious Pestilence
[Page]Sum be Iustice executioun
Bene put to deith without Remissioun
Sum hangit, sum doith lose thare heidis
Sum brynt, sum soddin in to leiddis
And sum for thare vnleifsum actis
Ar rent and rewin apone the ractis
Sum ar dissoluit by poysoun
Sum on the nycht ar murdreist doun
Sum fallis in to frynasie
Sum deis in Idropesie
And vtheris strange Infirmeteis
Quharein mony ane thousand deis
Quhilk humane Nature dois abhor
As in the Gutt, grauell and gor
Sum in the flux, and feuir quartane
Bot ay the houre of deith vncertane
Sum ar dissoluit suddantlye
Be Cattarue or be Poplesye
Sum doith distroy thame self also
As Hanniball, and wyse Cato
Be thounder, deith sum doith consume
As he did the thrid kyng of Rome
Callit Tullius Hostulius
As wryttis gret Valerius
For he and his houshald attonis
Wer brynt be thounder, flesche and bonis
Sum deith be extreme excesse
Off Ioy, as Valeri doith expresse
Sum be extreme Malancolye
[Page]Wyll de but vther Maladye
In Cronicles thow may weill ken
Quhow mony hundreth thousand men
Ar slane sen first the warld began
In battell, and quhow mony one man
Apone the see, doith lose thare lyuis
Quhen schyppis apone roches ryuis
Thocht sum de Naturally throuch aige
Fer mo deis raiffand in one raige
Happy is he, the quhilk hes space
Att his last hour, to cry for grace
Quhowbeit deith be abhominabyll
I thynk it suld be confortabyll
Tyll all thame of the faithfull nummer
For thay depart frome cair and cummer
Frome trubyll trauell, sturt, and stryfe
Tyll Ioy and euirlestand lyfe
¶Polidorus Virgilius
To that effect, he wryttis thus
In Trace, quhen ony chylde be borne
Thare kyn, and freindis, cumis thame beforne
With dolent Lamentatioun
For the gret trybulatioun
Calamitye cummer and cure
That thay in erth, ar to indure
Bot at thare deith and burying
Thay mak gret Ioy and Bankettyng
That thay haue past frome misarie
To rest and grett felycitie.
¶Sen deith bene fynall conclusioun
[Page]Quhat valis warldly prouisioun
Quham wysedome may nocht contramand
Nor strenth that stoure may nocht ganestand
Ten thousand Mylȝeone of treasoure
May nocht prolong thy lyfe one houre
Efter quhose dolent departyng
Thy spreit sall passe but tarying
Straucht way tyll Ioye Inestimabyll
Or to strang pane Intollerabyll
Thy vyle corruptit carioun
Sall turne in Putrefactioun
And so remane in pulder small
On to the Iugement Generall.
FINIS

Ane schort discriptiōn Of the Antechriste.Cour.
QVOD I) Father I heir men say.
That thare sall ryse affore ye day
Quhilk ȝe call generall Iugemēt
One wyckit mā from sathan sent
And contrar to the law of Christ
Callit the creuell Antechrist
And sum sayis that myscheuous man
Discende sall of the Trybe of Dan
And suld be borne in Babilone
The quhilk dissaue sall mony one
[Page]Infydelis sall of euery art
With that fals Propheit tak one part
And quhow that Enoch, and Elias
Sall preche contrar that fals Messias
Bot fynally his fals Doctryne
And he sall be put to rewyne
Bot nother be the fyre nor swourd
Bot be the vertew of Christis wourd
And gyf this be of veryte
The suith I pray ȝow schaw to me
¶ My Sonne (said he) as wryttis IohneExpe.
Thare sall nocht be one man allone
Hauyng that name in speciall
Bot Antechristis in generall
Hes bene, and now ar mony one
And rycht so in the tyme of Iohnei. Iohn .ii
Wer Antechristis as hym self sayis
And presentlye now in thir dayis
Ar rycht mony withouttin dout
Wer thare fals lawis weill souchtout.
¶ Quha wes one greter Antechrist
And more contraryous to Christ
Nor the fals Propheit Machomeit
Quhilk his curste Lawis, maid so sweit
In Turkye, ȝit thay ar obseruit
Quhare throuch the hell, he hes deseruit
All Turkis, Sarazenis, and Iowis
That in the Sonne of God nocht trowis
Ar Antechristis, I the declareii. Iohn .i
Because to Christ thay ar contrare.
[Page]Dan. viii
☞Daniell sayis in his propheseis
That efter the gret Monarcheis
Sall ryse ane maruellous potent Kyng
Quhilk with ane schameles face sall ryng
Mychtie and wyse in dirk speikyngis
And prospir in all plesand thyngis
Throuch his falsheid and craftynes
He sall flow in to welthynes
The Godlye pepyll he sall noye
By creuell deith, and thame distroye
The kyng of Kyngis, he sall ganestand
Syne be distroyit withouttin hand.
Tessa. ii
¶Paull sayis affore the Lordis cumyng
That thare salbe one departyng
And that man of Iniquitye
Tyll all men he sall opened be
Quhilk sall sitt in the holy sait
Contrary God, to mak debait
Bot that Sonne of Perditioun
Salbe put to confusioun
Be power of the haly Spreit
Quhen he his tyme hes done compleit
☞Beleue nocht that in tyme cumyng
One gretar Antechriste to ryng
Nor thare hes bene, and presentlye
Ar now, as Clerkis can espye
Tharefor my wyll is that thow knaw
Quhat euer thay be, that makis one law
Thocht thay be callit Christin men
By naturall reassoun thow may ken
[Page]Be thay neuer of so gret valour
Pape, Cardinall, Kyng, or Empriour
Extolland thare Traditionis
Abufe Christis Institutionis
Makand Lawis contrar to Christe
He is ane verray Antechriste
And quho doith fortifye or defend
Sic Law, I mak it to the kend
Be it Pape, Empriour, Kyng or Quene
Gret sorrow, sall be on thame Sene
Att Christis extreme Iugement
Without that thay in tyme repent
FINIS.

Heir follouis a schort Remenbrance of the moste Terrabyll Day of the extreme Iugement.❧ FATHER said I) with ȝour Lycence
Sen ȝe haith sic ExperienceCour.
Ȝitt one thyng at ȝow wald I speir
Quhen sall that dreidfull day appeir
Quhilk ȝe call Iugement Generall
Quhat thyngis affore that day sall fall
Quhare sall appeir that Dreidfull Iuge?
Or quhow may Faltourꝭ gett refuge
(Quod he) as to thy first questioun
I can mak no solutiounExpe.
Quharefor perturbe nocht thyne intent
[Page]To knaw day, hour, nor moment
To God allone, the day bene knawin
Quhilk neuer was to none Angell schawin
Howbeit be diuers coniectourꝭ
And principall Expositourꝭ
Off Daniell, and his Prophicie
And be the sentence of Elie
Quhilkꝭ hes declarit as thay can
How lang it is sen the warld began
And for to schaw, hes done thare cure
How lang thay traist it sall indure
And als how mony ages bene
As in thare warkis may be sene
¶Bot tyll declare thir questionis
Thare bene diuers opinionis
Sum wryttarꝭ hes the warld deuidit
In sex ageis, (as bene desidit
Into Fasciculus Temporum
And Cronica Cronicarum)
Bot be the sentence of Elie
The warld deuydit is in thre
As cunnyng Maister Carioun
Hes maid plane expositioun
How Elie sayis withouttin weir
The warld sall stand sax thousand ȝeir
Off quhome I follow the sentence
And lattis the vther Bukꝭ go hence
Frome the Creatioun of Adam
Two thousand ȝeir tyll Abraham
[Page]Frome Abraham, be this narratioun
To Christis Incarnatioun
Rychtso hes bene two thousand ȝeris
And be thir Prophiceis apperis
Frome Christ, as thay mak tyll ws kend
Two thousand tyll the warldlis end
Off quhilkꝭ ar by gone sickirlye
Fyue thousand, fyue hundreth, thre & fyftye
And so remanis to cum but weir
Four hundreth, with sewin and fourtye ȝeir
And than the Lorde Omnipotent
Suld cum tyll his gret Iugement
Christ sayis the tyme salbe maid schortMathow .xxiiii.
As Mathew planelye doith report
That for the warldlis Iniquite
The letter tyme, sall schortnit be
For plesour of the chosin nummer
That thay may passe, frome care and cummer
So be this compt it may be kend
The warld is drawand neir ane end
For legionis ar cum but doute
Off Antechristꝭ, wer thay soucht out
And mony toknis dois appeir
As efter schortlye thow sall heir
Quhow that Sanct Iherome doith indyte
That he hes red, in Hebrew wryte
Off fyftene signis in speciall
Affore that Iugement Generall
Off sum of thame, I tak no cure
[Page]Quhilk I fynd nocht in the scripture
One part of thame thocht I declare
First wyll I to the Scripture fare
Mar. xiii
¶Christe sayis, affore that day be done
Mathew .xiiii.
Thare salbe signis, in Sonne and Mone
The Sonne sall hyde his beymes brycht
So that the Mone, sall gyf no lycht
Sterris be mennis Iugement
Sall fall furth of the Firmament
¶Off this signis, or we forther gone
Sum morall sence, we wyll expone
As cunnyng Clerkis hes declarit
And hes the Sonne, and Mone comparit
The Sonne to the stait spirituall
The Mone, to Princis temporall
Rychtso the sterris, thay do compare
To the lawd common populare
The Mone and sterris hes no lycht
Bot the reflex of Phebus brycht
So quhen the Sonne of lycht is dyrk
The Mone and sterris, man be myrk
Rychtso quhen Pastouris spirituallis
Popis, Byschopis, and Cardinallis
In thare beginnyng schew gret lycht
The Temporall stait, wes rewlit rycht
¶Bot now allace, it is nocht so
Those schynand Lampis bene ago
Thare Radious beymes, ar turnit in reik
For now in erth, no thyng thay seik
[Page]Except ryches, and Dignitie
Followyng thare sensualitie
Mony prelatis, ar now ryngand
The quhilkꝭ no more dois vnderstand
Quhat doith pertene to thare offyce
Nor thow can kendyll fyre with yce
Wo to Papis, I say for me
Quhilk sufferis sic Enormite
That Ignorant warldly creaturis
Suld in the kirk, haif ony curis
No maruell thocht the peple slyde
Quhen thay haue blynd men to thare gyde
For ane Prelat, that can nocht preche
Nor Goddis law, to the peple teche
Esaye, comparith hym in his warkEsay .lvi.
Tyll ane dum Dog, that can nocht bark
And Christ hym callis in his greif
Moste lyke ane murdrer, or ane theifIohn .x.
The cunnyng Doctour Augustyne
Wolfis and Deuyllis, doith thame defyne
The Canon Law, doith hym defame
That of ane Prelat beris the name
And wyll nocht preche the Diuyne Lawis
As the Decreis planelye schawis
Bot those that hes Auctorite
To prouyde spirituall Dignyte
Mycht geue thay plesit to tak pane
Gar thame lycht all thare Lampis agane
Bot euer allace, that is nocht done
[Page]So dirknit bene boith Sonne and Mone
☞War Kyngis lyuis weill declarit
The quhilkꝭ ar to the Mone comparit
Men mycht consydder thare estate
Frome Charitie degenerate
I thynk, thay sulde thynk mekle schame
Off Christ for to tak thare Surname
Syne leif nocht lyke to Christianis
Bot more lyke Turkis, and to Paganis
Turke contrar Turke, makis lytill weir
Bot Christiane Princis, takis no feir
Quhilkꝭ suld aggre as brother to brother
Bot now ilk ane dyngis doun ane vther
I knaw no ressonabyll cause quharefore
Except Pryde, Couatyce, and vaine glore
The Empriour mouis his Ordinance
Contrar the potent Kyng of France
And France rychtso, with gret regour
Contrar his freinde the Empriour
And rycht swa France agane Ingland
Ingland alsso aganis Scotland
And als the Scottꝭ, with all thare mycht
Doith feycht for tyll defend thare rycht
Betuix thir Realmes of Albione
Quhare Battellis hes bene mony one
Can be maid none Affinitie
Nor ȝit no Consanguinitie
Nor be no waye, thay can consydder
That thay may haue lang Peace to gydder
[Page]I dreid that weir makꝭ none endyng
Tyll thay be boith onder ane kyng
Thocht Christ, the Souerane kyng of grace
Left in his Testment lufe and peace
Our Kyngꝭ frome weir wyll nocht refrane
Tyll thare be mony ane thousand slane
Gret heirschipis maid be see and land
As all the warld may vnderstand
¶Father I thynk that temporall kyngis
May fecht for tyll defend thare ryngis [...]
For I haif sene the spirituall stait
Mak weir thare rychtis tyll debait
I saw Pape Iulius manfullye
Passe to the feild tryumphantlye
With ane rycht aufull ordinance
Contrar Lues, the kyng of France
And for to do hym more dispyte
He did his Regioun interdyte
¶My Sonne (said he) as I supposeExpe.
That langith weill tyll our purpose
How Soune and Mone, ar boith denude
Off lycht, as Clerkis dois conclude
Comparyng thame, as ȝe hard tell
To Spirituall stait, and Temporell
And commoun peple half disparit
Quhilk to the sterris, bene comparit
Lawd peple followis ay thare heidis
And speciallye in to thare deidis
The moste part of Religioun
[Page]Bene  [...]
Quhat d [...]is auaill religious wedis
Quhen thay ar[?] contrar in thare dedis
Quhat holynes is thare within
Ane wolf, cled in ane Wodderꝭ skin
So be thir to [...]nis dois appeir
The day of Iugement drawis neir
Now latt ws leif this morall sens
Proceidyng tyll our purpose hens
And of this mater speik no more
Begynning quhare we left affore
Mathew xxiiii.
☞The Scripture sayis, efter thir signis
Salbe sene mony maruellous thyngis
Mar. xiii
Than sall ryse trybulationis
Luc xxi.
In erth, and gret mutationis
Als weill heir vnder as aboue
Quhen vertewis of the heuin sall moue
Sir creuell weir salbe or than
Wes neuer sene sen the warld began
The quhilk sall cause gret Indigence
As darth, hunger, and pestilence
The horribyll soundis of the sey
The peple sall perturbe and fley
Ierome sayis, it sall ryse on heycht
Aboue montanis to mennis sycht
Bot it sall nocht spred ouir the land
Bot lyke ane wall ewin straycht vpstand
Syne sattell doun agane so law
That no man sall the walter knaw
[Page]Gret Quhalis sall  [...]umi [...]is  [...] and rair
Quhose sound redound, sall in the air
All fysche and Monstouris  [...]
Sall cry with soundis odious
That men sall wydder on the erd
And wepyng wary sall thare weird
With lowde allace, and weiaway
That euer thay baid to se that day
And speciallye those that dwelland be
Apone the costis of the see
Rycht so as Sanct Ierome concludis
Sall be sene ferleis in the fludis
The sey with mouyng maruellous
Sall byrn with flammis furious
Rychtso sall byrn fontane and flude
All herb and tre, sall sweit lyk blude
Fowlis sall fall furth of the air
Wylde beistis to the plane repair
And in thare maner mak gret mone
Gowland with mony gryslye grone
The bodeis of dede creaturis [...]zechiel xx.vii.
Appeir sall on thare Sepulturis
Than sall boith men, wemen and bairnis
Cum crepand furth, of howe Cauernis
Quhare thay for dreid, wer hyd affore
With seych and sob, and hartis sore
Wandryng about, as thay war wode
Affamysit, for falt of fude
Non may mak vtheris confortyng
[Page]Bot dule for dule, and Lamentyng
Quhat may thay do, bot weip and wounder
Quhen thay se roches schaik in schounder
Throw trimlyng of the erth and quakyng
Off sorrow than salbe no slakyng
Quho that bene leuand in those dayis
May tell of terrabyll affrayis
Thare ryches, rentis, nor tressour
That tyme sall do thame small plesour
Bot quhen sic wonderis dois appeir
Men may be sure, the day drawis neir
Dan. xiii
That Iuste men pas sall to the glore
Iniuste to pane for euer more.
Cour.
¶Father (said I) we daylie reid
One Artekle in to our creid
Sayand that Christe Omnipotent
In to that generall Iugement
Sall Iuge boith dede and quik also
Quharefore declare me or ȝe go
Geue thare sall ony man or wyue
That day be funding vpon lyue.
Expe.
(Quod he) as to that questione
I sall mak sone solutione
Mat xxiiii
The Scripture planelye doith expone
Quhen all tokynnis, bene cum and gone
Ȝitt mony one hundreth thousand
That samyn day, salbe leuand
Quhowbeit thare sall no Creature
Nother of day, nor hour be sure
[Page]For Christ sall cum so suddantlye
That no man sall the tyme espye
As it wes in the tyme of Noye
Quhen God did all the warld distroye
Sum on the feild salbe lauborand
Sum in the templis Mariand
Sum afore Iugis makand pley
And sum men saland on the sey
Those that bene on the feild going
Sall nocht returne, to thare luging
Quho bene apone his hous aboue
Sall haif no laser to remoue
Two salbe in the Myll grindyng
Quhilkꝭ salbe taking but warnyng
The one tyll euerlestyng glore
The vther loste for euer more
Two salbe lying in one bed
The one to plesour salbe led
The vther salbe left allone
Gretand with mony gryslie grone
And so my Sonne, thow may weill trow
The warld salbe as it is now
The peple vsyng thare besynes
As holy Scripture doith expres
Sen no man knawis the hour nor day
The Scripture biddis ws walk and pray
And for our Syn be penitent
As Christ wald cum Incontinent.
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❧the maner quhow Christ sall cum to his Iugement.Expe.
QVHEN al takīnnis bene brocht till end
Thā sal ye sone of god discēd
Hebre. xii
As fyreflaucht haistely glansyng
Discend sall ye most heuinly kyng
As Phebus in the Orient
Lychtnis in haist the Occident
So plesandlye, he sall appeir
Luc. xxi.
Amang the heuinlye cluddis cleir
With gret power, and Maiestie
Aboue the cuntrie of Iudee
As Clerkis doith concludyng haill
Direct aboue the lustye vaill
Actis .i.
Off Iosaphat, and Mont Olyueit
All Prophesie, thare salbe compleit
Mat. xxv
The Angellꝭ of the Ordoris Nyne
Inueron sall, that throne Diuyne
With heuinlye consolatioun
Makand hym Ministratioun
In his presens, thare salbe borne
The signis of Cros, and Croun of thorne
Pillar, Nalis, Scurgis, and Speir
With euerilk thyng that did hym deir
The tyme of his grym Passioun
And for our consolatioun
Appeir sall in his handis and feit
[Page]And in his syde, the prent compleit
Off his fyue Woundis Precious
Schynand lyke Rubeis Radious
Tyll Reprobatt confusioun
And for fynall conclusioun
He Sittand in his Trybunall
With gret power Imperiall
Thare sall ane Angell blawe a blast [...]xiiii.
Quhilk sall mak all the warld agast
With hydous voce, and vehement
Ryse dede folk, cum to Iugement
With that, all Reasonabyll Creature
That euer wes formit be Nature
Sall suddantlye start vp attonis
Coniunit with Saull, Flesche, Blude, & Bonis
That terribyll Trumpat, I heir tell
Beis hard in Heuin, in erth, and hell
Those that wer drownit in the sey [...]
That boustious blast thay sall obey
Quhare euer the body buryet wase
All salbe fundyng in that plase
Angellis sall passe, in the four airtis
Off erth, and bryng thame frome all partisMar. xiii
And with one instant diligence
Present thame to his excellence
☞Sanct Ierome, thoucht continuallye
On this Iugement so ardentlye
He said, quhidder I eit or drynk
Or walk, or sleip, forsuth me thynk
[Page]That terrabyll Trumpat lyke ane bell
So quiklye in my eir doith knell
As Instantlye it wer present
Ryse dede folk, cum to Iugement
Geue Sanct Ierome tuke sic ane fray
Allace quhat sall we Synnarꝭ say
¶All those, quhilk funding bene on lyue
Salbe Immortall maid belyue
i Pe. iiii.
And in the twynkling of one Ee
Cori. xv.
With fyre thay sall translatit be
And neuer for to dee agane
As Diuine scripture schawis plane
Als reddy boith for pane and glore
As thay, quhilk deit lang tyme affore
¶The scripture sayis, thay sall appeir
In aige of thre and thretty ȝeir
Quhidder thay deit ȝoung or auld
Quhose gret mummer may nocht be tauld
That day sall nocht be myst one man
Quhilk borne wes, sen the warld began
Mathew xxvi.
The Angellis sall thame separate
As Hird the Scheip doith frome the Gate
And those quhilk bene of Baliallis band
Trymling apone the erth sall stand
On the left hand, of that gret Iuge
But espirance to gett refuge.
i Tess. iiii.
¶Bot those quhilk bene Predestinate
Sall frome the erth be Eleuate
And that moste happy cumpanye
[Page]Sall ordourit be tryumphantlye
Att the rycht hand of Christe our kyng
Heych in the air, with loude louyng
¶Full Gloriouslye, thare sall compeir
More brycht than Phebus in his speir
The Virgene Marie, Quene of Quenis
With mony ane thousand brycht Virgenis
The Fatheris of the auld Testament
Quhilk wer to God obedient
Father Adam, sall thame conuoye
With Abell, Seith, Enoch, and Noye
Abraham with his faithfull warkis
With all the prudent Patriarkis
Iohne the Baptiste, thare sall compeir
The Principall, and last Messyngeir
Quhilk come bot half ane ȝeir affore
The cumyng of that kyng of glore
Moyses, Esayas, honorabyll
With all trew Prophetis Venerabyll
Dauid, with all the faithfull kyngis
Quhilk verteouslye did rewle thare ryngis
The nobyll Cheiftane Iosue
With gentyll Iudas Machabe
With mony one nobyll Campioun
Quhilk in thare tyme with gret renoun
Manfullye tyll thare lyuis ende
The Law of God, thay did defende
☞With Eue, that day salbe present
The Ladyis of the Auld Testament.
[Page]Delbora, Adamis Douchter deir
With the four lusty Ladyis cleir
Quhilk kepit wer, in the Ark with Noye
Sara, and Cithara with Ioye
The quhilkꝭ to Abraham wyffis bene
With gude Rebecka, thare salbe sene
The prudent Wyffis of Israell
Gude Lya, and the fair Rachell
With Iudeth, Hestar, and Susanna
And the rycht sapient Quene Saba
¶Thare sall compeir, Peter and Paull
With Christis trew Disciplis all
Lawrence and Stewin, with thare blyst band
Off Martyris mo, than ten thousand
Gregor, Ambrose, and Augustyne
With Confessoris, ane tryumphand tryne
With sanct Francois, and Dominic
Sanct Bernard, and sanct Benedic
With small nummer, of Monkis and Freris
Off Carmeletis, and Cordeleris
That for the lufe of Christ onlye
Renuncit the warld vnfenatlye.
¶With Elezabeth and Anna
All gude wyffis sall compeir that da
The blyst and holy Magdelane
That day affore hir Souerane
Rycht plesandlye sche sall present
All Synnaris, that wer penitent
[Page]Quhilk of thare gylt, heir askit grace
In Heuin with hir, sall haue ane place
¶Bot wo beis to that bailfull band
Quhilk sall stand Lawe, at his left hand
Woo than to Kyngis, and Empriouris
Quhilkis wer vnrychteus Conquerouris
For thare glore, and perticular gude
Gart sched so mekle saikles blude
But Ceptour, Crown, and Robe Royall
That day thay sall mak compt of all
And for thare creuell tyrrannye
Sall punyste be, perpetuallye
¶Ȝe Lordis, and Barronis, more and les
That ȝour pure Tennantis dois oppres
Be gret Gyrsome, and dowbyll maill
More than ȝour landis bene auaill
With sore exhorbitant cariage
With merchetis of thare mariage
Tormentit boith in peace and weir
With birdyngis more than thay may beir
Be thay haif payit to ȝow thare maill
And to the Preist, thare teindis haill
And quhen the land agane is sawin
Quhat restis behynd, I wald wee knawin
I traist thay, and thare pure houshauld
May tell of hunger, and of cauld
Without ȝe haif of thame piete
I dreid ȝe sall gett no Mercie
That day, quhen Christ Omnipotent
[Page]Cumis tyll his generall Iugement.
¶ Wo beis to publict Oppressouris
To tyrrannis, and to transgressouris
To Murdararꝭ, and commoun theifis
Quhilk neuer did mend, thare gret mischeifis
Fornicatoris, and Ockararis
Commoun publict Adulteraris
All pertinat wylfull Arratykis
All fals dissaitfull Sysmatykis
All salbe present in that place
With mony Lamentabyll allace
¶The cursit Cayn, that neuer wes gude
With all scheddaris of saikles blude
Nemrod, fundar of Babilone
With fals Ydolatris mony one
Nynus, the kyng of Asseriay
With gret dule sall compeir that day
Quhilk first Inuentit Ymagery
Quharethrouch come gret Ydolatry
For makyng of the Image Bell
That day his hyir salbe in hell
¶The gret Oppressour, kyng Pharo
The tyrrane Empriour Nero
Sall with thame cursit kyng Herode bryng
With mony vther cairfull Kyng
The creuell kyng Antiochus
With the moste furious Olofernus
Gret Oppressouris, of Israell
That day, thare hyre salbe in hell
[Page]¶ With Iudas sall compeir one clan
Off fals Tratouris, to God and man
Thare sall compeir of euerilk land
With Ponce Pylat, one bailfull band
Off temporall and of spirituall statis
Fals Iugis, with thare Aduocatis
Thare sall our Senȝeouris of the cessioun
Off all thare faltis, mak cleir confessioun
Thare salbe sene, the fraudfull failȝeis
Off Schireffis, Prouestis, and of Bailȝeis
Officiallis, with thare Constry Clerkis
Sall mak compt, of thare wrangus werkis
Thay and thare peruerst Procuratouris
Oppressouris boith of ryche and puris
Throw Delaturis, full of dissait
Quhilk mony one gart beg thare mait
Gret dule that day to Iugis bene
That cumis nocht, with thare conscience clene
That day sall pas be Peremptoris
Without cawteill or Dilatoris
No Duplycandum, nor Tryplicandum
Bot schortlye pas to Sentenciandum
Without Contineuationis
Or ony Appellationis
That sentence, sall nocht be retratit
Nor with no man of Law debatit
¶Ȝe Lauboraris, be sey and landis
Perfyte Craftismen, and ryche Merchandis
Leif ȝour dissait, and crafty wylis
[Page]Quhilk syllie simpyll folk begylis
Mak recompence heir, as ȝe may
Remembryng on this dreidfull day
¶With Machomeit, sall compeir but doute
Off Antechristis one hydduous route
Byschope Annas, and Cayphas
With hym in cumpany sall pas
With Scrybis, and fals Pharisianis
Quhilk wrocht on Christ gret violensis
With mony one Turk, and Sariscene
With gret sorrow thare salbe sene
Papis for thare traditionis
Contrar Christis Institutionis
With mony one cowle, and clyppit crown
Quhilk Christis Lawis strampit down
And wald nocht suffer for to preche
The veritie, nor the peple teche
Bot Lawitmen, pat to gret torment
Quhilk vsit Christis Testament
All Kyngis and Quenis, thare salbe kend
The quhilk sic Lawis did defend
In that court sall cum mony one
Off the blak byik of Babilone
The Innocent blude that day sall crye
One loude vengeance, full petuouslye
On those creuell bludy bowchouris
Martyrerꝭ of Prophetis and Prechouris
Sum with the fyre, sum with the sworde
Quhilk planely precheit Goddis worde
[Page]That day thay sall rewardit be
Conforme to thare Iniquitie
¶The Sodometis, and Gomoriance
On quhome God wrocht so gret vengeance
With Choro, Dathan, and Abyrone
With thare assistance mony one
The holy Scripture, wyll the tell
Quhow thay sank all doun to the hell
With Symon Magus, sall resort
Off proude Preistis, ane schamefull sort
¶That samyn day, thare salbe sene
Mony one creuell cairfull Quene
Quene Semeram, kyng Nynus wyfe
Ane Tygir full of sturt and stryfe
To gydder with Quene Iezabell
Quhilk wes boith couetous and creuell
The fals desaitfull Dalyda
The creuell Quene Clitamistra
The quhilk did murdres on the nyche
Agamenon, boith wyse and wycht
The quhilk wes hir awin souerane Lorde
As Grekis storyis dois recorde
With creuell Quenis, mony one
Quhilk langsum wer, for tyll expone.
¶Ȝe wantoun Ladyis, and burgis wyuis
That now for sydest talis stryuis
Flappand the fylth, amang ȝour feit
Rasyng the duste, in to the streit
That day for all ȝour pomp and pryde
[Page]Ȝour talis sall nocht ȝour hyppis hyde
Thir vaniteis, ȝe sall repent
Without that ȝe be penitent
¶With Phitonissa, I heir tell
Quhilk rasit the Spreit of Samuell
That day with hir thare sall resorte
Off rank Wycheis, one sorrowfull sorte
Brocht frome all partis mony one myle
Frome Sauoy, Athell, and Argyle
And frome the ryndes of Galloway
With mony wofull Wallaway.
¶Ȝe Brether of Religioun
In tyme leif ȝour abusioun
With quhilk ȝe haif the warld abusit
Or ȝe that day salbe refusit
I speik to ȝow all generallye
Nocht tyll one Ordoure speciallye
That day all Creature sall ken
Geue ȝe war Sanctis or warldly men
Or gyf ȝe tuk the Skapellarye
That ȝe mycht leif more plesandlye
And gett ane gude grosse Portioun
Or for Godlye Deuotioun
That day ȝour f [...]ynit Sanctytudis
Sall nocht be knawin be ȝour Hudis
Ȝour Superstitious Ceremoneis
Participand tyll Ydolatreis
Corde, cuttit schone, nor clippit hede
That daye, sall stande ȝow in no stede
[Page]For cowlis blak, gray, nor begaird
Ȝe sall that day get no rewaird
Ȝour polit payntit flatterye
Ȝour dissimulat Ypocrasye
That day, thay sall be cleirlye knawin
Quhen ȝe sall scheir, as ȝe haue sawin
Tharefore in tyme, be penitent
Or ellis that day, ȝe wylbe schent
¶I pray ȝow hartlie as I may
Remember on that dreidfull day
Ȝe Abbot, Pryor, and Pryores
Consydder quhat ȝe did profes
And quhow that ȝour promotioun
Wes no thyng for deuotioun
Bot tyll obtene the Abbasye
Ȝe maid ȝour wow of Chaistitye
Off powertie, and obedience
Tharefor remord ȝour conscience
Quhow thir thre wowis bene obseruit
And quhat rewarde, ȝe haue deseruit
Quharefore repent, quhill ȝe haue space
Sen God is lyberall of his grace,
¶Father (quod I) declare to meCour.
Quhare sall our Prelatis ordorit be
Quhilk now bene in the warld leuand
With quhome sall cum that Spirituall band?
(Quod he) as sanct Barnard discryuis
Expe.
Without that thay amend thare lyuis
And leif thare wantoun vitious warkis
[Page]Nocht with Prophetis nor Patriarkis
Nocht with Martyris, nor Confessouris
The quhilkꝭ to Christ, wer trew prechouris
Thare Predecessouris, Peter, and Paull
That day wyll thame mysken at all
So sall thay nocht, I say for me
With the Apostlis, ordourit be
I traist thay sall dwell on the bordour
Off Hell, quhare thare salbe non ordour
Endlang the Flude of Flagitone
Or on the brais of Acherone
Cryand on Caron, I conclude
To ferre thame ouer, that furious flude
Tyll eternall confusioun
Without thay leif thare abusioun
I traist those Prelatꝭ, more and les
Sall mak cleir compt of thare ryches
That dreidfull day, with hartis sore
And quhat seruice, thay did tharefore
The Princely pomp, nor apparell
Off Pope, Byschope, nor Cardinall
Thare Royall Rentis, nor Dignite
That day sall nocht regardit be
Thare sall no talis, as I heir say
Off Byschoppis, be borne vp that day
Cum thay nocht with thare conscience clene
On thame gret sorrow salbe sene
Without that thay thare lyfe amend
In tyme, and so I mak ane end.
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❧ Heir followis the Maner quhov Christ sall geue his Sentence.QVHEN all thir Congregationis.Expe.
Beis brocht furth frōe al natiōis
Quhilk wilbe wtout lang proces
Thocht I haif maid sum lang de­gres
For ī ye twinkling of one E
All mankynd, sall presentit be
Affore that Kyngis Excellence
Than schortlye sall he geue sentenceMat. xxv
First sayand to that blysfull band
Quhilk beis ordourit, at his rycht hand
Cum with my Fatheris Bennysoun
And ressaue ȝour possessioun
Quhilk bene for ȝow preordinat
Affore the warld wes first creat
Quhen I wes hungry, ȝe me fed
Quhen I wes naikit, ȝe me cled
Oftymes ȝe gaue me Herberye
And gaif me drynk quhen I wes Drye
And vesyit me, with myndis meik
Quhen I wes presonar and seik
In all sic trybulatioun
Ȝe gaif me consolatioun
¶Than sall thay say, O Potent Kyng
Quhen saw we the, desyre sic thyng
[Page]We neuer saw thyne excellence
Subdewit to sic Indigence
Ȝis (sall he say) I ȝow assure
Quhen euer ȝe did ressaue the pure
And for my saik, maid thame supple
That gyft but doute, ȝe gaif to me
Tharefor sall now begyn ȝour glore
Quhilk sall indure for euer more
¶Than sall he luke on his left hand
And say onto that bailfull band
Pas with my Maledictioun
Tyll Eternall Afflixtioun
In cumpany with feindis fell
In euerlestyng fyre of Hell
Quhen I stude naikit att ȝour ȝett
Houngry, thristy, cauld, and wett
Rycht febyll, seik, and lyke to de
I neuer gat of ȝow supple
And quhen I lay in presoun strang
For ȝow, I mycht haif lying full lang
Without ȝour cosolatioun
Or ony supportatioun.
¶Trymling for dreid, than sall thay say
With mony hydous harmesay
Allace gude Lorde, quhen saw we the
Subiect to sic necessitie
Quhen saw we the, cum to our dure
Houngry, thristy, naikit, pure
Quhen saw we the in presoun ly
[Page]Or the refusit herbery.
¶Than sall that most precelland Kyng
Tyll those wrachis mak answeryng
That tyme, quhen ȝe refusit the puris
Quhilkis neidfull cryit at ȝour duris
And of ȝour superfluitie
For my saik maid thame no supplie
Refusand thame, ȝe me refusit
With wrecheitnes, so ȝe wer abusit
Tharefor ȝe sall haue to ȝour hyre
The euerlestyng byrning fyre
But grace, but peace, or confortyng
Than sall thay cry, full sore weipyng
That we wer maid, allace gude Lorde
Allace, is thare non Misericorde
But thus withouttin hope of grace
Tyne presens of thy plesand face
Allace for ws, it had bene gude
We had bene smorit in our cude.
¶ Than with one rair, the erth, sall ryue
And swolly thame boith man and wyue
Than sall those Creaturis forlorne
Warie the hour, that thay wer borne
With mony ȝamer, ȝewt and ȝell
Frome tyme thay feill, the flammis fell
Apone thare tender bodeis byte
Quhose torment salbe Infinyte
The erth sall close, and frome thare sycht
Sall taking be, all kynde of lycht
[Page]Thare salbe gowlyng, and gretyng
But hope of ony confortyng
In that Inestimabyll pane
Eternallye thay sall remane
Byrnand in furious flammys rede
Euer deand, bot neuir be dede
That the small Minuth of one hour
To thame salbe so gret dolour
Thay sall thynk thay haif done remane
Ane thousand ȝeir, in to that pane
Allace I trimyll tyll heir tell
The terribyll Turmentyng of hell
That panefull pytt, quho can deplore
Quhilk mon indure, for euer more
¶Than sall those glorifyit Creaturis
With myrth and infinyte plesouris
Conuoyit with Ioy Angelicall
Passe to the Heuin Imperiall
With Christ Iesu, our Souerane Kyng
In glore, Eternallye to ryng
Off man, quhilk passis the Ingyne
The thousand part, for tyll defyne
Allanerlie of the leist plesoure
Preordinat for one Creature.
ii Pet. iii.
¶Than sall one Fyre, as Clerkis sane
Mak all the hyllis and valais plane
Frome erth, vp to the Heuin Impyre
All beis renewit, by that fyre
Purgeyng all thyng materiall
[Page]Vnder the heuin Imperiall
Boith erth, and walter, fyre, and air,
Salbe more perfyte maid and fair
The quhilkꝭ affore had myxit bene
Sall than be purifyit and maid clene
The erth lyke Christall salbe cleir
And euerilk Planeit, in his speir
Sall rest withouttin more moueyng
Boith sterny heuin, and Christellyng
The first and hiest heuin monabyll
Sall stand but turnyng firme and stabyll
The Sonne in to the Orient
Sall stand, and in the Occident
Rest sall the Mone, and be more cleir
Nor now bene Phebus, in his speir
And als that Lantern, of the Heuin
Sall gyf more lycht, be greis sewin
Nor it gaue sen the warld began
The Heuin renewit salbe than
Rychtso the erth, with sic deuyse
Compair tyll heuinlye Paradyse,
☞So heuin and erth salbe alloneApo. xxi.
As menith the Apostill Iohne
The gret sey sall no more appeir
Bot lyke the Christall pure and cleir
Passyng Imaginatiouni. Cor. ii
Off Man, to mak narratioun
Off glore, quhilk God, haith done prepair
Tyll euery one that cumis thare
[Page]The quhilk with eris, nor with eine
Off man may nocht be hard nor sene
With hart it is vnthynkabyll
And with toungis Inpronunciabyll
Quhose plesouris, salbe so perfyte
Haueyng in God, so gret delyte
ii Pet. iii.
The space now of one thousand ȝeir
That tyme sall nocht, one hour appeir
Quhilk can nocht comprehendit be
Tyll we that plesand sycht sall se.
ii. Cor. xii
¶Quhen Paull wes reuyst in the spreit
Tyll the thrid Heuin, of glore repleit
He sayith, the Secretis quhilk he saw
Thay wer nocht leifsum for to schaw
To no man on the erth leueand
Quharefor preis nocht tyll vnderstand
Quhowbeit thare to thow haif desyre
The Secretis of the heuin Impyre
The more men lukis on Phebus brycht
The more febyll, salbe thare sycht
Rychtso latt no man sett thare cure
To Sers, the heych Diuyne Nature
The more men studye, I suppose
Salbe the more frome thare purpose
To knaw, quhareto sulde men Intend
Quhilk Angellis can nocht comprehend
Bot efter this gret Iugement
All thyng tyll ws salbe patent
Latt ws with Paull, our mynde addres
[Page]He beand full of Heuinlynes
Full humilye, he techeit ws
Nocht for to be to curious
Quhowbeit men be of gret Ingyne
To seik the heych Secretis Diuyne
Quhose Iugementꝭ ar vncersiabyllRom. xi.
And strange wayis Inuestigabyll
(That is to say) past out fynding
Off quhome no man may fynd endyng
It sufficith ws for tyll Implore
Gret God, to bryng ws to that glore.
FINIS.

Off certane plesouris of the glorifeit bodeis.

SEn thare is non in erth, may comprehend
The Heuinlye glore, & plesouris Infinyte
Quhairfor my Sone, I pray yt not pretendExpe.
Ouer far to seik, that maner of delyte
Quhilk passit Naturall reasoun to Indyte
That God affore that he the warld creatt
Preparit to thame, quhilk ar predestinat.

All Mortall men, salbe maid Immortall
(That is to say) neuer to de agane
Impassabyll, and so Celestiall
That fyre, nor swerd, may do to thame no pane
[Page]Nor hete, nor cald, nor frost, nor wynd, nor rane
Thocht sic thyng wer, may do to thame no deir
Those Creaturis, rycht so salbe als cleir

As flammand Phebus in his Mantioun
Considder than, gyf thare salbe gret lycht
Quhen euery one, in to that Regioun
Sall schyne lyke to the Sonne, and be als brycht
Lat ws with Paull, desyre to se that sycht
To be dissoluit, Paull had A gret desyre
With Christ, to be in tyll the heuin Impyre.

And more attour, as Clerkis can discryue.
Thare maruellous myrthis, beis incomparabyll
Amang the rest, in all thare wyttis fyue
Thay sall haue sensuall plesouris delectabyll
The heuinlye sound, quhilk salbe Innarrabyll
In thare eris, continuallye sall ryng
And als the sycht of Christ Iesus our Kyng.

In his tryumphant throne Imperiall
With his Mother, ye Virgene Quene of quenis
Thare salbe sene, the Court Celestiall
Apostolis, Martyris, Confessoris, and Virgenis
Brychtar than Phebus, in his speir that, schynis
The Patriarkis, and Prophetis, Venerabyll
Thare salbe sene, with glore Inestimabyll.

¶And with thare Spirituall Eis salbe sene.
That sycht, quhilk bene most Superexcelland
[Page]God as he is, and euermore hes bene
Continuallye, that sycht contempland
Augustyne sayis, he had leuer tak on hand
To be in Hell, he seyng the assence
Off God, nor be in Heuin, but his presence.

¶Quho seis God, in his Diuynitie.
He seis in hym, all vther plesand thyngis
The quhilk with toung, can nocht pronuncit be
Quhat plesour bene, to se that kyng of Kyngis,
The gretest pane, yt dampnit folk dounthryngis
And to the Deuyllis, the most punytioun
It is of god, to want fruitioun.

And mairattour, thay sall feill sic ane smell.
Surmountyng far, the fleure of erthly flowris
And in thare mouth, ane taist as I heir tell
Off sweit, and Supernaturall Sapowris
As thay sall se the heuinlye brycht colowris
Schenyng amang those Creaturis Diuyne
Quhilk tyll discryue, trāscendith mānis Ingyne

¶And als thay sall haif sic agilitie.
In one Instant to passe for thare plesour
Ten thousand mylis in twynkling of one E
So thare Ioyis salbe without missour
Thay sall Reioyis, to se the gret dolour
Off dampnit folk in hell, and thare torment
Because of God it is the Iuste Iugement.

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Subtellyte thay sall haue maruellouslye
Subponyng that thare wer ane wall of bras
One glorifeit body, may rycht haistellye
Out throw that wall, without Impediment pas
Siclyke as doith the Sone baime throw ye glas
As Christ tyll his Disciplis did appeir
All entres clos, and non of thame did steir.

i. Cor. xv
¶Quhowbeit in heuin, thocht euerilk Creature
Haue nocht alyke filicitie nor glore
Ȝitt euerilk one sall haif so gret plesure
And so content, thay sall desyre no more
To haue more Ioye, thay sall no way Implore
Bot thay salbe all satyfeit and content
Lyke to this rude exempyll subsequent,

Tak ane crowat, one pynte stope, and one quart
One galloun pitschair, one puntioun & one twn
Of wyne, or balme, gyf euerilk one thare part
And fyll thame full, tyll that thay be ouir rwn
The lytill crouat, in comparisoun
Salbe so full, that it may hald no more
Off sic missouris, thocht thare be twenty score.

¶In to the Twn, or in the Pontioun,
So all those vesschellis, in one qualitie
May hald no more, without thay be ouir rwn
Ȝitt haif thay nocht, alyke in quantitie
[Page]So be this rude exempyll thow may se
Thocht euerilk one, be nocht alyke in glore
Ar satyfeit, so that thay desyre no more

Thocht presentlye be Goddis prouiance.
Beistis fowlis, and fyschis, in the seis
Ar necessar now, for mannis sustenance
With cornis, herbis, flowris, and fructfull treis
Than sall thare be non sic commoditeis
The erth sall beir no plant, nor beist brutall
Bot as the Heuinnis brycht lyke buriall

Suppone sum be on erth, walkand heir doun,
Or heycht abone, quhare euer thay pleis to go
Off God, thay haue ay cleir fruitioun
Boith est, or west, vp doun, or to, or fro
Clerkis declaris plesouris mony mo
Quhilk dois transcend al mortal mānis Ingyne
The thousand part, of those plesouris deffyne.

¶In to the Heuin, thay sall perfytlie knaw.
Thare tender freindis, yare father & yare mother
Thare Predecessouris, quhilkꝭ thay neuer saw
Thair spousis, bairnis, syster, & thare brother
And euerilk one, sall haue sic lufe tyll vther
Off vtheris glore, and Ioy, thay sall reioyse
As of thare awin, as Clerkis doith suppose

¶Than salbe sene, that brycht Ierusalem.Apoc. xxi
Quhilk Ihone saw, in his Reuelatione
[Page]Esa. lxvi
We mortall men, allace ar far to blame
That wyll nocht haif consideratione
And one continuall contemplatione
With hote desyre, to cum on to that glore
Quhilk plesour sall indure for euer more.

Ro. viii.
O Lorde our God, and Kyng Omnipotent.
Quhilk knew, or thow the heuin, and erth, creati
Quho wald to the, be inobedient
And so disarue, for to be Reprobatt
Thow knew the nomer, of predestinat
Quhome thow did call, and hes thame Iustifeis
And sall in Heuin with the be Glorifeit.

Grant ws to be Lorde, of that chosin sort
Quhame of thy mercy superexcellent
Did puriffy, as scripture doith report
With the blude of that holy Innocent
Iesu, quhilk maid hym self Obedient
On to the deth, and steruit on the Rude
Lat ws O Lorde, be purgit with that blude.

 [...] viii.
¶All Creature, that euer God Creat
As wryttis Paull, thay wys to se that day
Quhen the Childryng of God predestinat
Sall do appeir, in thare new fresche array
i. Cor. xv
Quhen Corruptioun, beis clengit clene away
And cheangit beis, thare Mortall Qualitie
In the gret glore, of Immortalitie.

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¶And moreattour all dede thyngis corporall.
Onder the Concaue, of the Heuin Impyre
That now to laubour subiect ar and thrall
Sone, Mone, & Sterris, Erth, walter, air, & Fyre
In one maneir, thay haue ane hote desyre
Wissing that day, that thay may be at rest
As Erasmus, Exponith Manifest.

¶We se the gret Gloube, of the Firmament
Continuallie, in moueyng maruellous
The Sewin Planetis, contrary thare intent
Ar reft about, with coursse contrarious
The wynd, and See, with stormys furious
The trublit Air, with Frostis, Snaw and Rane,
On to that day, thay trauell euer in pane.

☞And all the Angellis, of the Ordouris Nyne.
Haueand compatioun of our Misareis
Thay wys efter that day, and to that Fyne
To se ws fred, frome our Infirmiteis
And clengit frome thir gret Calamiteis
And trublus lyfe, quhilk neuer sall haue end
On to that day I mak it to the kend.

FINIS

❧ Ane Exhortatioun Gyffin be Father Experience▪ vnto his Sone The Curteour.

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Expe.
MY Sone now mark weil ī thy memory
Of yis fals warld, ye trublus trāsitory
Quhose dreidfull dayis drawis neir a
Tharfor cal god to be yi adiutory (end
And euery day my Sonne, Memento Mori
And watt not quhen, nor quhare yt thow sal wend
Heir to remane, I pray the nocht pretend
And sen thow knawis the tyme is verray schort
In Christis Blude, sett all thy hole confort.

Math. vi
Be nocht to myche solyst in temporall thyngis.
Sen yow persauis, Pape, Empriour nor Kyngis
In to the erth, haith no place parmanent
Thow seis ye deith, yame dulefully doun thringis
And rauis yame frome yare rent, ryches & ringis
Tharefor, on Christ confirme thyne hole intent
And of thy callyng, be rycht weill content
Than God that fedis the fowlis of the air
All neidfull thyng for the he sall prepair,

Iob. xiiii
Consydder in thy contemplatioun
Ay sen the warldlis, first Creatioun
Mankynd hes tholit this misary mortall
Ay tormentit with trybulatioun
With dolour, dreid, and desolatioun
Gentiles, and Chosin peple of Israell
To this vnhap, all subiect ar and thrall
Quhilk Misary but doute sall euer indure
Tyll the last day, my Sonne thareof be sure.

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That day, as I haue maid narratioun
Salbe the day of consolatioun
Tyll all the Childryng, of the chosin noumer
Thare endit beis, thare desolatioun
And als I mak the supplycatioun
In erthlye materis, tak the no more cummer
Dreid nocht to dee, for deith is bot ane slūmer
Leue ane Iuste lyfe, & wt wane Ioyus hart
And of thy guddis, tak plesandlye thy part.

Off our talkeing, now latt ws mak ane end.
Behald quhow Phebus, dounwart dois discend
Towart his palyce, in the Occident
Dame Synthea I se, scho dois pretend
In tyll hir wattry Regioun tyll ascend
With vissage paill, vp frome the Orient
The dew now dounkis, the rossis redolent
The Mareguldis that all day wer reiosit
Off Phebus heit, now cratftelly ar closit

The blysfull byrdis, bownis to the treis
And ceissis of thare heuinlye armoneis
The Cornecraik in the croft, I heir hir cry
The bak, the Howlat, febyll of thare eis
For thare pastyme, now in the ewinnyng fleis
The Nychtyngaill, with myrthfull melody
Hir naturall notis, persith throw the sky
Tyll Synthea, makand hir obseruance
Quhilk on the nycht, dois tak hir dalyance.

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I se Polartike, in the North appeir
And Venus ryssing with hir bemes cleir
Quharefor my Sonne, I hald it tyme to go
Wald God (said I) ȝe did remane all ȝeir
That I mycht of ȝour heuinlye Lessonis leir
Off ȝour departyng, I am wounder wo
Tak pacience (said he) it mone be so
Perchance I sall returne, with deligence
Thus I departit, frome Experience.

And sped me home, with hert sychyng full sore
And enterit in my quyet Oritore
I tuke paper, and thare began to wryt
This Miserie, as ȝe haue hard afore
All gentyll Redaris, hertlye I Implore
For tyll excuse, my rurall rude Indyte
Thoucht Phareseis, wyll haue at me dispyte
Quhilkis wald not yat, thare craftynes wer kend
Latt God be Iuge, and so I mak ane end.

*FINIS.✚

Quod Lyndesay, .1552.

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Ane dialog betuix Experience and ane courteour off the miserabyll estait of the warld. Compylit be Schir Dauid Lyndesay of ye Mont Knycht alias, Lyone Kyng of Armes. And is deuidit in foure partis. As efter followis. .&c.

Author: Lindsay, David, Sir, fl. 1490-1555.1554

THE EPISTIL.

❧THE PROLOGE.

❧ THE FIRST BVKE.

Ane exclamatioun to The Redar, Twycheyng the wryttyng of Vulgare, and Maternall Language.

❧ Heir followis the Creatioun of Adam, and Eue.

❧ Of the Miserabyll Transgressioun of Adam.

Heir followis quhov God Distroyit all Leueand Creature in erth, for Syn, And Drownit thame be ane Terribyll Flude, in the tyme of Noye.

In the First the Beildyng of Babilone be Nemrod. And quhow kyng Nynus began ye first Monarche. And of thare Ydolatrye. And Quhow Semeramis, Gouernit the Impyre, Efter hir Husbande Kyng Nynus. As Followis.

Quhov god maid the Dyuersitie of Languagis. And maid Impediment to the Beildaris of Babilone

Of the first inuentiōn of Ydolatrie. Quhow Nembroth, compeld the Peple tyll adore the Fyre in Caldia.

Of ye gret misere and skaythis that cumis of Weris. And quhow king Nynꝰ began the first weris, and straik the first Battell.

❧ Heir followith ane Schorte Discriptioun of the Four Monarchis. ☞ And quhow Kyng Nynus, began the First Monarchie.

Quhov king Nynꝰ, Inuentit the First Ydolatrie of Ymagis.

¶ Off Imageis vsit amang cristin men.

❧ Heir followis [...] Exclamatioun aganis Idolatrie,

Heir follouis quhov Kyng Nynus Beildit the gret Citie of Nyniue, And quhow he Vincuste ȝoroastes, the Kyng off Bactria.

Heir followis sum of the vvounderfull dedis of the lustie quene Semeramis

❧Off kyng Nynus Sepulture.

❧Quhov the Quene [Page] Semeramis, with one gret Armie, Past to Yade, And Faucht with the Kyng Stawrobates, And of hir Miserrabyll end.

Quhov king Sardanapalus, for his vitious life maid ane mise [...]abili end.

Epitaphium Sardanapali

¶And Begynnis the Thrid Part.

Ane Schort Discriptioun of the secund. thrid. and ferd Monarche.

Of ye most miserabyl and most terrabill distructioun of Ierusalem.

Off ye miserabyllend Off Certane tyrane Princis. And speciallye, the Begynnaris, of the Four Monarcheis.

Heir followis the fyft Spirituall, And Papall Monarchie.

❧ Heir followis ane Discriptioun of the court of Rome.

And Begynnis the Fourt, Makand Mentioun of the Deith. And of the Antichrist. And Generall Iugemēt. And of Certane Plesouris of Glorifier Bodyis. And quhow euery Creature desyris to se the last Day. With ane Exhortatioun be Experience to the Courtiour. &c.

❧ Off the Deith.

Ane schort discriptiōn Of the Antechriste.

Heir follouis a schort Remenbrance of the moste Terrabyll Day of the extreme Iugement.

❧the maner quhow Christ sall cum to his Iugement.

❧ Heir followis the Maner quhov Christ sall geue his Sentence.

Off certane plesouris of the glorifeit bodeis.

❧ Ane Exhortatioun Gyffin be Father Experience▪ vnto his Sone The Curteour.

Ane dialog betuix Experience and ane courteour off the miserabyll estait of the warld. Compylit be Schir Dauid Lyndesay of ye Mont Knycht alias, Lyone Kyng of Armes. And is deuidit in foure partis. As efter followis. .&c.

Author: Lindsay, David, Sir, fl. 1490-1555.1554

Ane exclamatioun to The Redar, Twycheyng the wryttyng of Vulgare, and Maternall Language.

❧ Heir followis the Creatioun of Adam, and Eue.

❧ Of the Miserabyll Transgressioun of Adam.

Heir followis quhov God Distroyit all Leueand Creature in erth, for Syn, And Drownit thame be ane Terribyll Flude, in the tyme of Noye.

In the First the Beildyng of Babilone be Nemrod. And quhow kyng Nynus began ye first Monarche. And of thare Ydolatrye. And Quhow Semeramis, Gouernit the Im­pyre, Efter hir Husbande Kyng Nynus. As Followis.

Quhov god maid the Dyuersitie of Languagis. And maid Impediment to the Beildaris of Babilone

Of the first inuentiōn of Ydolatrie. Quhow Nembroth, compeld the Peple tyll adore the Fyre in Caldia.

Of ye gret misere and skaythis that cumis of Weris. And quhow king Nynꝰ began the first weris, and straik the first Battell.

❧ Heir followith ane Schorte Discriptioun of the Four Monarchis. ☞ And quhow Kyng Nynus, began the First Monarchie.

Quhov king Nynꝰ, Inuentit the First Ydolatrie of Ymagis.

¶ Off Imageis vsit amang cristin men.

❧ Heir followis [...] Exclamatioun aganis Idolatrie,

Heir follouis quhov Kyng Nynus Beildit the gret Citie of Nyniue, And quhow he Vincuste ȝoroastes, the Kyng off Bactria.

Heir followis sum of the vvounderfull dedis of the lustie quene Semeramis

❧Off kyng Nynus Sepulture.

❧Quhov the Quene [Page] Semeramis, with one gret Armie, Past to Yade, And Faucht with the Kyng Stawrobates, And of hir Miserrabyll end.

Quhov king Sardanapalus, for his vitious life maid ane mise [...]abili end.

Epitaphium Sardanapali

Ane Schort Discrip­tioun of the secund. thrid. and ferd Monarche.

Of ye most miserabyl and most terrabill distructioun of Ierusalem.

Off ye miserabyllend Off Certane tyrane Princis. And speciallye, the Be­gynnaris, of the Four Monarcheis.

Heir followis the fyft Spirituall, And Papall Monarchie.

❧ Heir followis ane Discriptioun of the court of Rome.

And Begynnis the Fourt, Makand Mentioun of the Deith. And of the Antichrist. And Generall Iugemēt. And of Certane Plesouris of Glorifier Bodyis. And quhow euery Creature desyris to se the last Day. With ane Exhortatioun be Experience to the Courtiour. &c.

❧ Off the Deith.

Ane schort discriptiōn Of the Antechriste.

Heir follouis a schort Remenbrance of the moste Terrabyll Day of the extreme Iugement.

❧the maner quhow Christ sall cum to his Iugement.

❧ Heir followis the Maner quhov Christ sall geue his Sentence.

Off certane plesouris of the glorifeit bodeis.

❧ Ane Exhortatioun Gyffin be Father Experience▪ vnto his Sone The Curteour.

In the First the Beildyng of Babilone be Nemrod. And quhow kyng Nynus began ye first Monarche. And of thare Ydolatrye. And Quhow Semeramis, Gouernit the Impyre, Efter hir Husbande Kyng Nynus. As Followis.

Ane Schort Discriptioun of the secund. thrid. and ferd Monarche.

Off ye miserabyllend Off Certane tyrane Princis. And speciallye, the Begynnaris, of the Four Monarcheis.