Clergyman's

Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune,
And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune.
- Gavin Douglas

Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune,
And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune.
- Gavin Douglas

Fyrst I protest, beaw schirris, by зour leif
Beis weill avisit my wark or зhe reprief;
Consider it warly, reid oftar than anys,
Weill at a blenk sle poetry nocht tayn is.
- Gavin Douglas

Bot a sentens to follow may suffice me:
Sum tyme I follow the text als neir I may,
Sum tyme I am constrenyt ane other way.
- Gavin Douglas

And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray:
Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day.
- Gavin Douglas

As to the text accordyng never a deill,
Mair than langis to the cart the fift quheill.
- Gavin Douglas

The battellis and the man I will discriue,
Fra Troyis boundis first that fugitiue
By fate to Italie come and coist lauyne,
Ouer land and se cachit with meikill pyne
By force of goddis aboue fra euery stede
Of cruel luno throw auld remembrit feid:
Grete payne in batelles sufferit he also,
Or he his goddis brocht in Latio
And belt the ciete, fra quham of nobil fame
The latyne peopill taken has thare name,
And eke the faderis, princis of Alba,
Come, and the walleris of grete Rome alsua.
- Gavin Douglas