As beefe, meale, butter, and cheese, Be Thomas your bruther at command, THE SOLSEQUIUM; OR, THE LOVER COMPAIRING HIMSELF TO A SUN-FLOWER. Lyk as the dum Solsequium with cair owrecum Dois sorrow, quhen the sun gois out of sight, Hings doun his heid, and droupis as deid, and will not spreid, But lukis his levis throw langour all the nicht, Til fulisch Phæton aryse with quhip in hand To purge the christal skyis, and licht the land. Birds in thair bower wait on that hour, And to thair King ane glade gude-morrow gives, But laughs on Phebus lowsing on his levis. Swa stands with me, except I be quhair I may se Frae scho depairts, a thousand dairts in sindrie airts My countenance declairs my inward grief, And houp almaist dispairs to find relief. I die, I dwyne, play dois me pyne, I loth on every thing I luke, allace! Till Titan myne upon me schyne, That I revive thruch favour of hir face. Frae scho appeir into hir sphere, begins to cleir The dawing of my lang desyrit day. Then courage cryis on houp to ryse quhen he espyis The noysum nicht of absens went away; No noyis, frae I awalke, can me impesche, Na mair I lout, but stand up stout, O happy day, go not away, Apollo stay Sen primum mobile says me always nay, Alex. Montgomerie. THE SEGE OF THE CASTEL OF EDINBURGH. Buschment of Beruik, mak zow for the gait, Zour camp conuoyit but cumer throw the land, The walis wes heich, we culd not weil pursew thame; The castel segit, and all beset about Thay riggan stanes come tumland ouir the trinschis. The vehement schot zeid in at either syde, By threttie cannonis plasit at partis seuin; Quhill thay thair in mycht not thair heidis hyde, * Lord Sempill. THE PACK-MAN'S PATER-NOSTER. Pack-man. But good Sir John, where learn'd our Lady her For in her days were neither mass nor matins, Priest. Pack-man, if thou believe the Legendary, The mass is elder far than Christ or Mary: For all the Patriarchs, both more and less, And great Melchisedeck himself said mass. Pack-man. But, good Sir John, spake all these fathers Latin? And said they mass in surplices and satin? Could they speak Latin, long ere Latin grew ? And without Latin no mass can be true. And as for heretics that now translate it, False miscreants, they shame the mass, and slight it. I'd rather teach a whole convent of monks, Than such a Pack-man with his Puritan spunks. Sir James Sempill. EPITAPH ON HABBIE SIMPSON. Kilbarchan now may say alace! Bot quhat remeid! For na man can supply his place; Hab Simpson's deid. Now quha shall play, The day it dawis, On bag-pypis now na body blawis, Sen Habbie's deid. Or, quha will caus our scheirers scheir? In time of need? Hab Simpson cou'd. Quhat neid ye speir? But now he's deid. Sae kyndly to his nichbouris neist, But now we neid na him arreist, For Habbie's deid. At fairis he playit befoir the speir-men, Now quha shall play befoir sic weir-men At Clark-playis, quhen he wont to cum, An tuneit his reid; Bot now our pypes may a' sing dum, Sen Habbie's deid. And at hors racis mony a day, Befoir the blak, the brown, and gray; He gart his pypis quhan he did play, Bayth skirl and screid; Now al sic pastymis quyte away, Sen Habbie's deid. He countit was ane weild wicht man, And ferslie at fute-ball he ran: At everie game the gre he wan For pith and speid; The lyke of Habbie was na then; But now he's deid. And then besyde his valyiant actis, And schuke his heid; Now we want mony merrie crackis Sen Habbie's deid. |