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ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE

The freikis[1] on feildis
That wight wapins[2] weildis
With shyning bright shieldis
At Titan[3] in trone;
Stiff speiris in reistis
Ouer corseris crestis
Are broke on their breistis:
The nicht is neir gone.

So hard are their hittis,
Some sweyis, some sittis,
And some perforce flittis[4]
On ground quhile they grone.
Syne groomis that gay is
On blonkis[5] that brayis
With swordis assayis:—
The nicht is neir gone.

WILLIAM STEVENSON

1530?–1575

49.
Jolly Good Ale and Old
I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.
Though I go bare, take ye no care,
I nothing am a-cold;
I stuff my skin so full within
Of jolly good ale and old.
Back and side go bare, go bare;
Both foot and hand go cold;

  1. ↑ 48. freikis] men, warriors.
  2. ↑ wight wapins] stout weapons.
  3. ↑ at Titan] over against Titan (the sun), or read 'as.'
  4. ↑ flittis] are cast.
  5. ↑ blonkis] white palfreys.
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