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 ANONYMOUS (SCOTTISH)

The thing that may her please my body sail fulfil ;

Quhatever her disease, it does my body ill.

My bird, my bonny ane, my tender babe vcnust,

My luve, my life alane, my liking and my lust!

We interchange our hairtis in others armis soft,

Spritelcss we twa depaiitis, usand our luvis oft.

We mourn when licht day dawis, we plain the nicht is short,

We curse the cock that crawis, that hmderis our disport.

I glowffin up aghast, quhen I her miss on nicht,

And in my oxter fast I find the bowster richt,

Then languor on me lies like Morpheus the mair,

Quhilk causes me uprise and to my sweet repair.

And then is all the sorrow forth of remembrance

That ever I had a-forrow in luvis observance.

Thus never I do rest, so lusty a life I lead,

Quhen that I list to test the well of womanheid.

Luvarib in pain, I pray God send you sic remeid

As I have nicht and day, you to defend from deid'

Therefore be ever true unto your ladies free,

And they will on you rue as mine has done on me.

\enust] delightful. glowffin] blink on awaking. oxter] armpit. a-forrow] aforetime.

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