The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DREME OF SCHIR DAVID LYNDESAY. THE EPISTIL TO THE KINGIS GRACE. Rycht potent Prince, of hie Imperial blude, Unto thy Grace I traist it be weill knawin My servyce done unto your Celsitude, ' Quhilk nedis nocht at lenth for to be schawin; And thocht my youtheid now be neir ouer blawin, Excerst in servyce of thyne Excellence, Hope hes me hecht ane gudlic recompense. Quhen thow wes young, I bure thee in myne arme Full tenderlie, tyll thow begouth to gang; And in thy bed oft happit thee full warme, With lute in hand, syne, sweitlie to thee sang: Sumtyme, in dansing, feiralie I flang; And sumtyme, playand farsis on the flure; And sumtyme, on myne office takkand cure: And sumtyme, lyke ane feind, transfigurate, And sumtyme, lyke the greislie gaist ofGye; In divers formis oft tymes disfigurate, And sumtyme, dissagyist full plesandlye. So, sen thy birth, I have coutinewalye Bene occupyit, and aye to thy plesoure, And sumtyme, Seware, Coppare, and Carvoure; Thy purs maister and secreit Thesaurare, Thy Ysehare, aye sen thy natyvitie, And of thy chalmer cheiffe Cubiculare, Quhilk, to this hour, hes keipit my lawtie; Lovyng be to the blyssit Trynitie! That sic ane wracheit worme hes maid so habyll, Tyll sic ane Prince to be so greabyll. Bot now thow arte, be influence naturall, Hie of ingyne, and rycht inquisityve Of antique storeis, and deidis marciall; More plesandlie the tyme for tyll ouerdryve, I have, at length, the storeis done, descryve Of Hectour, Arthour, and gentyll Julyus, Of Alexander, and worthy Pompeyus; Of Jasone, and Medea, all at lenth, Of Hercules the actis honorabyll, And of Sampsone the supernaturall strenth, And of leill luffaris storeis amiabyll; And oft tymes have I feinye...