Weill Quotes
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Fyrst I protest, beaw schirris, by ?our leif Beis weill avisit my wark or ?he reprief; Consider it warly, reid oftar than anys, Weill at a blenk sle poetry nocht tayn is.
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First I protest, beau schiris, by your leif Beis weill adivisit my werk or ye reprief; Consider it warely, read ofter than anis, weill, at ane blenk, slee poetry nocht ta'en is.
Gavin Douglas— c.1513 Eneados, bk.1, prologue.
Fyrst I protest, beaw schirris, by ?our leifBeis weill avisit my wark or ?he reprief;Consider it warly, reid oftar than anys,weill at a blenk sle poetry nocht tayn is.
Gavin Douglas— Bk. 1, prologue, line 105.
Na he that ay has levyt fre May nocht knaw weill the propyrte The angyr na the wrechyt dome That is couplyt to foule thyrldome, Bot gyff he had assayit it. Than all perquer he suld it wyt, And suld think fredome mar to prys Than all the gold in warld that is.
john barbour— But he that has been always free
Can ne'er know the reality,
The anguish and the wretched fate
That is a part of thraldom's state.
A thing, when we experience it,
Makes evident its opposite.
If bondage he has ever known,
Then freedom's blessings he will own,
And reckon freedom worth in gold
More than the world will ever hold!Bk. 1, line 233; p. 53.
