A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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And opent itj and tban scho fand richt thoii?
All that the freyr had spokin of Ifefoir.
Scho stert abak, as scho war in efFray
And saynt hir ; * and smyland cuth scho say:
*' Haly benedicite ! Quhat may this mene I
Qui: a evir afoir hes sic ane fairlie sene?
Sa grit a merviil as now hes happint here !
Quhat sail I say ? He is ane haly freyr
He said full suth of all that he did say."
Scho brocht all furth, and on the burde cowd lay^
Bayth meitj and breid, and Avyne^ withoiittin mdir;
The capounsj cunnyngs, as ye have hard before,
Petrikis and pluvaris befoir thame has scho brocht.
The fieyr knew^, and saw thair waiitit nocht
Bot all was furth brocht, evin at his devyiss.
Fra Syn«)n saw it oppinnit on this wyiss.
He had greit wovmder ; and sueiris by the mone^
*' Freyr Robert has richt weil his devoir done.
He may be caEit ane man of greit science.
So suddanlie that all this purviance
Hes brocht us heir, all throw his subtilte.
And throw his arte, and his philosophic.
It was in richt gude tyme that he came hidden
Now fill the cop that w^e may drink togidder ;
And mak vis cheir after this langsum day
For 1 have ridding a wounder wilsum way.—.
Now God be lovit, heir is sufficiance
Ontill us all, thro' his wyse governance \"
And with that wourde thay drank all round about
Of the gude wyn ;
and ay tliay pkyit cop out.
Thay eit, and drank ; and maid richt mirrie cheir
With sangis loud, bayth Symon and the freyr ;
And on this wyse the lang nicht thay our draif ;
Thay wantit nothing that thay desyre to craif.
Than Symone said to the gudwyf in hy,
^^ Cum heir, fair dame, and sett yow down me by;
* * Slsssecl or crossed herself.
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