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 WILLIAM DUNBAR

He is exampler, loodoster, and guye; Principal! patrone and rose orygynalle,

Above all Ma ires as maister most worthy: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.

��23 On the Nativity of Christ

J^O RATE coeh desufer* For now is risen the bricht day-stcr, Fro the rose Mary, flour of flourU. The cleir Sonc, quhom no cloud devouris, Surmounting Phebus in the Est, Is cumin of his hevinly touris: Et nobis Puer natus e*t.

Archangellis, angellis, and dompnationis,

Tronis, potestatis, and marteiris seir, And all ye hevinly operationis,

Ster, planeit, firmament, and spheir,

Fire, erd, air, and water clcir, To Him gife loving, most and lest,

That come in to so meik maneir; Et nobis Puer natus est.

Synnaris be glad, and penance do, And thank your Maker hairtfully;

For he that ye micht nocht come to To you is cumin full humbly

22 guye] g-uide. 25 schouris] showers. cumin]

come, entered. seir] various. erd] earth. lest] least, synnaris] sinners.

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