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ANONYMOUS (SCOTTISH)

Quhen all luvaris rejoicit benc And most desirous of their prey,

I heard a lusty luvar mene

  • I luve, but I dare nocht assay!

'Strong are the pains I daily prove,

But yet with patience I sustene, I am so fetterit with the luve

Only of my lady sheen,

Quhilk for her beauty micht be queen, Nature so craftily alway

Has done depaint that sweet serene: Quhom I luve I dare nocht assay.

'She is so bricht of hyd and hue,

I luve but her alone, I ween, Is none her luve that may eschew,

That blinkis of that dulce amene;

So comely cleir are her twa een That she mac luvaris dois affray

Than ever of Greece did fair Hclene: Quhom I luve I dare nocht assay!'

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Through gladness of this lusty May.

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