Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

:;;:;;Il6 XI. WILLIAM DUNBAR.[(B)How Dunhar was desyred to he ane/reir.~\1 This [hindir] ^ mxht, befoir the dawmg cleir,Me thocht Sanct Francis did to me appeir.With ane religiouse abbeit in his hand,And said, ' In this go cleith the, my servand,Refuiss the warld, for thov/ mon be a freir.' 52 With him and with his abbeit bayth I skarrit,Lyk#to ane man that with a gaist wes marritMe thocht on bed he layid it me aboneBut on the flure, delyverly and sone,I lap thair-fra, and nevir wald cum nar it. 103 Quoth he, quhy * skarris thow with this holy weid ?Cleith the thairin, for weir it thow most neid.Thow, that hes long done Venus lawis teiche,Sail now be freir,and in this abbeit preicheDelay it nocht, it mon be done, but dreid.' 154 Quoth I, Sanct ' Francis, loving be the till,And thankit mot thow be of thy gude willTo me, that of thy claithis are so kyndBot thame to weir it nevir come in my myndSweit confessour, thow tak it nocht in ill. 205 In haly legendis half I hard allevinMa Sanctis of bischoppis nor freiris,Off fullbe sic sevinfew freiris that hes bene Sanctis I reid.Quhairfoir ga bring to me ane bischoppis weid,Gife evir thow wald my saule yeid unto hevin/ 25* Omitted in the Bannatyne MS. ; see note.