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 | | O Sop of sorrow, sonkin into cair: | sunken
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| | | O Catiue Cresseid, for now and euer mair, | wretched | | | Gane is thy Ioy and all thy mirth in Eird, | on earth | | 410 | Of all blyithnes now art thow blaiknit bair. | happiness; deprived completely | | | Thair is na Salue may saif the of thy sair, | no cure/medicine; suffering | | | Fell is thy fortoun, wickit is thy weird: | Cruel; wiched; fate | | | Thy blys is baneist, and thy baill on breird, | joy is banished; woe growing | | | Vnder the Eirth, God gif i grauin wer: | if I buried were | | 415 | Quhair nane of Grece nor zit of Troy micht heird | hear/learn of it |
S 60
| | Quhair is thy Chalmer wantounlie besene? | chamber luxuriously furnished;
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| | | With burely bed and bankouris browderit bene, | broad; embroidered seat covers | | | Spycis and Wyne to thy Collatioun, | light meal | | | The Cowpis all of gold and siluer schene: | cups/goblets; shining | | 420 | The sweit Meitis, seruit in plaittis clene, | sweet meats | | | With Saipheron sals of ane gude sessoun: | saffron sauce | | | Thy gay garmentis with mony gudely Goun, | lovely/handsome | | | Thy plesand Lawn pinnit with goldin prene: | lovely linens; pinned; broaches | | | All is areir, thy greit Royall Renoun. | lost; fame/renown |
S 61
| 425 | Quhair is thy garding with thir greissis gay? | garden; plants | | | And fresche flowris, quhilk the Quene floray: |
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| | | Had paintit plesandly in euerie pane, | part (of the garden)/flower bed | | | Quhair thou was wont full merilye in May, | | | | To walk and tak the dew be it was day | when/as soon as
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| | 430 | And heir the Merle and Mawis mony ane, | hear; blackbird; thrush | | | With Ladyis fair in Carrolling to gane. | go | | | And se the Royall Rinkis in thair array: | court | | | In garmentis gay garnischit on euerie grane | decorated; in every particular; |
S 62
| | Thy greit triumphand fame and hie honour | | | 435 | Quhair thou was callit of Eirdlye wichtis flour. | earthly creatures | | | All is decayit, thy weird is welterit so. | decayed; fate; skewed | | | Thy hie estait is turnit in darknes dour. |
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| | | This Lipper Lludge tak for thy burelie Bour. | leper lodge; boudoir | | | And for thy Bed tak now ane bunche of stro, | bundle of straw | | 440 | For waillit Wyne, and Meitis thou had tho, | choice; then | | | Tak mowlit Breid,Peirrie and Ceder sour: | moldy; perry; cider;
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| | | Bot Cop and Clapper, now is all ago. | Except for; gone |
S 63
| | My cleir voice, and courtlie carrolling, | | | | Quhair I was wont with Ladyis for to sing. | | | 445 | Is rawk as Ruik, full hiddeous hoir and hace, | raw as a rook's; rough and hoarse | | | My plesand port all vtheris precelling: | bearing; surpassing; | | | Of lustines I was hald maist conding. | loveliness; worthy | | | Now is deformit the figour of my face, | appearance | | | To luik on it, na Leid now lyking hes: | nobody | | 450 | Sowpit in syte, I say with sair siching, | Immersed in; sorrow | | | Ludgeit amang the Lipper Leid allace. | lodged; leper people |
S 64
| | O Ladyis fair of Troy and Grece attend, | | | | My miserie, quhilk nane may comprehend. | | | | My friuoll Fortoun, my Infelicitie: | fickle fortune; unhappiness | | 455 | My greit mischeif quhilk na man can amend | sin/misfortune | | | Be war in tyme approchis neir the end, | | | | And in zour mynd ane mirrour mak of me: | memory | | | As I am now, peraduenture that ze | | | | For all zour micht may cum to that same end, | | | 460 | Or ellis war, gif ony war may be. | worse |
S 65
| | Nocht is zour fairnes bot ane faiding flour, | | | | Nocht is zour famous laud and hie honour. | praise | | | Bot wind Inflat in vther mennis eiris. | ears | | | Zour roising reid to rotting sall retour: | rosy red complexion; return | | 465 | Exempill mak of me in zour Memour, | memory | | | Quhilk of sic thingis wofull witnes beiris, | offers lamentable proof | | | All Welth in Eird, away as Wind it weiris | passes/fades | | | Be war thairfor, approchis neir the hour: | | | | Fortoun is fikkill, quhen scho beginnis & steiris | stirs; |
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