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<P><HI>THE</HI> FLYTING <HI>betwixt</HI> MONTGOMERY <HI>and</HI> POLVVART.</P>
<P><HI>EDINBVRGH,</HI> Printed by ANDRO HART. 1621.</P>
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<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<L>NO cankring Envy, Malice, nor De&s;pite,</L>
<L>Stirr'd vp the&s;e men &s;o eagerly to flyte,</L>
<L>But generous Emulation; &s;o in Playes</L>
<L>Be&s;t Actors flyte and raile, and thou&s;and wayes</L>
<L>Delight the itching Eare; So want<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n Curres</L>
<L>Wak'd with the gingling of a Courteours &s;purres,</L>
<L>Barke all the night, and neuer &s;eeke to bite:</L>
<L>Such bravery the&s;e Ver&s;ers mou'd to write.</L>
<L>Would all that now doe flyte would flyte like Tho&s;e,</L>
<L>And Lawes were made that none dur&s;t flyte in Pro&s;e;</L>
<L>How calme were then the World? perhaps this Law</L>
<L>Might make &s;ome madding Wiues to &s;tand in aw,</L>
<L>And not in filthy Pro&s;e out-roare their Men:</L>
<L>But read tho&s;e Roundelayes to them till then.</L>
<L>Flyting no Rea&s;on hath, and at this tyme</L>
<L>Heere it not &s;tands by Rea&s;on, but by Ryme;</L>
<L><HI>Anger</HI> t'a&s;&s;wage, make <HI>Melancholy</HI> le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>This flyting fir&s;t was wrote, now tholes the Pre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Who will not re&s;t content with this Epi&s;tle,</L>
<L>Let them &s;it downe and flyte, or &s;tand and whi&s;tle.</L>
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<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>POLVVART and MONTGOMERIES flytting.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Montgomerie <HI>to</HI> Polwart.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>_POlwart</HI> ye peip like a Mou&s;e among&s;t thornes,</L>
<L>Na cunning ye keip, <HI>Polwart</HI> ye peip:</L>
<L>Ye looke like a Sheip, and ye had twa hornes,</L>
<L><HI>Polwart</HI> ye peip like a Mou&s;e among&s;t thornes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Beware what thou &s;peiks little foule earth Tade,</L>
<L>With thy Cannigate breiks, beware what thou &s;peiks,</L>
<L>Or there &s;albe wat cheiks, for the la&s;t that thou made,</L>
<L>Beware what thou &s;peiks, little foule earth Tade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Foule mi&s;made mytting, borne in the Mer&s;e,</L>
<L>By word and by wrytting, foule mi&s;made mytting</L>
<L>Leaue off thy flytting, come ki&s;&s;e my Er&s;e,</L>
<L>Foule mi&s;made mytting, borne in the Mer&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And we mell thou &s;all yell, little cultroun Cui&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou &s;alt tell, euen thy &s;ell, and we mell thou &s;alt yell,</L>
<L>Thy &s;mell was &s;a fell, and &s;tronger than Mui&s;t,</L>
<L>And we mell, thou &s;all yell, little cultroun Cui&s;t.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Thou art doeand and dridland like ane foule bea&s;t,</L>
<L>Fykand, and fidland, thou art doeand, and dridland,</L>
<L>Strydand, and &s;tridland, like Robin red-bre&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou art doeand, and dridland, like ane foule bea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Polwarts</HI> Reply to <HI>Montgomerie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>DE&s;pitefull &s;pider, poore of &s;preit,</L>
<L>Begins with babling me to blame,</L>
<L>Gowke wyte me not to gar thee greit,</L>
<L>Thy tratling, truiker, I &s;all tame,</L>
<L>When thou beleeues, to win ane name,</L>
<L>Thou &s;all be bani&s;h'd of all beild,</L>
<L>And &s;yne receiue baith skaith and &s;hame,</L>
<L>And &s;a beforc'd to leaue the field.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy ragged roundels, raveand Royt,</L>
<L>Some &s;hort, &s;ome lang, &s;ome out of lyne,</L>
<L>With &s;cabrous colours, ful&s;ome floyt,</L>
<L>Proceidand from ane pint of wyne,</L>
<L>Quhilk halts for laike of feet like myne,</L>
<L>Yet foole thou thought na &s;hame to write them,</L>
<L>At mens command that laikes ingyne,</L>
<L>Quhilk doytted Dyvours, gart thee dyte them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But gooked goo&s;e, I am right glaide,</L>
<L>Thou art begun, in write to flyte,</L>
<L>Sen Lowne thy language I haue laid,</L>
<L>And put thee to thy pen to wryte:</L>
<L>Now dog I &s;all thee &s;a di&s;pyte,</L>
<L>With pricking put thee to &s;ik &s;peid,</L>
<L>And cau&s;e thee (Curre) that warkloome quite,</L>
<L>Syne &s;eik ane hole to hide thy heid.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Yel knaue acknawledge thy offence,</L>
<L>Or I grow crabbed, and &s;a clair thee,</L>
<L>Aske mercy, make obedience,</L>
<L>In time for feare lei&s;t I forfair thee:</L>
<L>Ill &s;preit I will na langer &s;pair thee,</L>
<L>Blaide bleck thee, to bring in a gy&s;e,</L>
<L>And to drey pennance &s;oone prepare thee,</L>
<L>Syne pa&s;&s;e forth as I &s;all devy&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t fair threed-bair, with fundred feit,</L>
<L>Recanting thy vn&s;eemely &s;awes,</L>
<L>In pilgrimage to Allarit,</L>
<L>Syne be content to quite the cau&s;e,</L>
<L>And in thy teeth bring me the Tawes,</L>
<L>With becks my bidding to abide,</L>
<L>Whether thou will let belt thy bawes,</L>
<L>Or ki&s;&s;e all cloffes that &s;tands be&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And of thir twa take thou thy cho&s;e,</L>
<L>For thy awin profite I procure thee,</L>
<L>Or with a prick into thy no&s;e,</L>
<L>To &s;tand content, I &s;all conjure thee.</L>
<L>But at this time think I forbuir thee,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I can not treat thee fairer,</L>
<L>Sit thou this charge, I will a&s;&s;ure thee,</L>
<L>The &s;econd &s;albe &s;omething &s;airer.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Montgomerie <HI>to</HI> Polwart.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>FAl&s;e feckle&s;&s;e foulmart, loe heir a defyance,</L>
<L>Ga &s;ey thy &s;cience, doe Droigh what thou dow,</L>
<L>Trot tyke to a Tow, Mandrag but myance,</L>
<L>We will heir tydance, peil'd <HI>Polwart</HI> of thy pow,</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>Many yeald yew ha&s;t thou cald ouer a know,</L>
<L>Syne hid them in a how, &s;tarke theefe when thou &s;taw them,</L>
<L>Men&s;weiring thou &s;aw them, and made but a mow,</L>
<L>Syne fylde in the Row, when the man came that awe them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy dittay was death, thou dare not deny it,</L>
<L>Thy trumperie was tryed, thy fal&s;et they fand,</L>
<L>Burreau the band, <HI>Cor mundum</HI> thou cryed,</L>
<L>Condemn'd to be dry'd and hung vp fra hand:</L>
<L>While thou pay'd a pand, in that &s;towre thou did &s;tand,</L>
<L>With a willie wand thy skin was weill &s;courged,</L>
<L>Syne fein&yogh;edly forged, how thou left the land,</L>
<L>Now Sirs I demand, how this Pod can be purged.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet wan&s;hapen &s;hit, thou &s;hupe &s;ik a &s;un&yogh;ie,</L>
<L>As proud as ye prun&yogh;ie, your pennes &s;all be plucked,</L>
<L>Cum ki&s;&s;e where I cuckied, and change me that cun&yogh;ie,</L>
<L>Your gry&s;es grun&yogh;ie is gracele&s;&s;e and gowked,</L>
<L>Your mouth mo&s;t be mucked, while ye be in&s;tructed,</L>
<L>Foule flirdome, wanfucked, terfell of a Taide,</L>
<L>Thy meter mi&s;made, hath lou&s;ilie lucked,</L>
<L>I grant thou conducted thy termes in a &s;laide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Little angrie Attercop, and auld vn&s;ell Aipe,</L>
<L>Ye grein for to gaipe vpon the gray meir,</L>
<L>Play with thy Peir, or I'll pull thee like a Paipe,</L>
<L>Go ride in a raipe, for this noble new yeir:</L>
<L>I promi&s;e thee heir, to thy chafts ill cheir,</L>
<L>Except thou go leir, to lick at the lowder,</L>
<L>With Potingars powder, thy &s;elfe thou ouer&s;meir</L>
<L>The Ca&s;tell ye weir weill &s;eiled on your &s;houlder.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This twi&s;e &s;ealed trumper, with his tratling he trowes,</L>
<L>Making vaine vowes, to match him with me,</L>
<L>With the print of a key, weill brunt on thy browes</L>
<L>Now God &s;albe crowes, wherefra come ye</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>For all your bombill, ye'r war'd a little wee:</L>
<L>I thinke for to &s;ee you hing by the heilis.</L>
<L>For termes that thou &s;teilis of auld Poetrie,</L>
<L>Now wha &s;ould trow thee, that's pa&s;t baith the &s;eilis.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Proud poi&s;ond'd pykthanke, perver&s;e and periured,</L>
<L>I dow not indure it, to be bitten with a duik,</L>
<L>I's fell thee like a Fluik, flatlings on the flure,</L>
<L>Thy &s;crowes ob&s;cure are borrowed fra&s;ome buik,</L>
<L>Fra <HI>Lind&s;ay</HI> thou tuik, thou'rt <HI>Chaucers</HI> Cuik,</L>
<L>Ay lying like a Ruik, gif men wald not skar thee:</L>
<L>But bea&s;t I debar thee, the Kings Chimney nuik,</L>
<L>Thou flees for a looke, but I &s;hall ride nar thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fal&s;e &s;trydand &s;tickdirt, I's gar thee &s;tinke,</L>
<L>How dur&s;t thou mint, with thy Ma&s;ter to mell,</L>
<L>On &s;ik as thy &s;ell, little pratling pink</L>
<L>Could thou not wair ink, thy tratling to tell,</L>
<L>Hoy hur&s;on to hell, amang the fiends fell,</L>
<L>To drinke of that well, that poi&s;on'd thy pen,</L>
<L>Where divels in their den, dois yammer and yell,</L>
<L>Heir I thee expell from all Chri&s;tian men.</L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>Polwart <HI>to</HI> Montgomerie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>BLeird babling by&s;tour, baird obey</L>
<L>Learne sky bald knaue to knaw thy &s;ell,</L>
<L>Vile vagabond, or I invoy,</L>
<L>Cu&s;troun with cuffes thee to compell:</L>
<L>Yet, tratling truiker, truth to tell,</L>
<L>Stoup thou not at the &s;econd charge,</L>
<L>Mi&s;chieuous mi&s;hant, we &s;all mell</L>
<L>With laidly language, loud and large,</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Where Lowne as thou loues thy life,</L>
<L>I baith command, and coun&s;ell thee,</L>
<L>For to e&s;chew this &s;turt&s;ome &s;trife,</L>
<L>And with thy manlie Ma&s;ter gree,</L>
<L>To this effect, I &s;ummond thee</L>
<L>By publick Proclamation,</L>
<L>Gowke to compeir vpon thy knee,</L>
<L>And ki&s;&s;e my foull foundation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But Lord I laugh to &s;ee thee bluiter,</L>
<L>Gloir in thy ragments, ra&s;h to raill.</L>
<L>With mighty manked, magled meiter,</L>
<L>Tratland, and tumbland, top ouer taill,</L>
<L>As Carlings compts their farts doyl'd &s;naill,</L>
<L>Thy rou&s;tie ratrymes, made but mater.</L>
<L>I could weill follow, wald I &s;eaill,</L>
<L>Or prea&s;&s;e to fi&s;h within thy water.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Onely becau&s;e Owle thou dois v&s;e it,</L>
<L>I will write ver&s;e of common kind,</L>
<L>And Swingeour for thy &s;ake, refu&s;e it,</L>
<L>To crabe thee bumbler, by thy mind,</L>
<L>Pedler, I pitty thee &s;a pin'd,</L>
<L>To buckell him thar beares the bell,</L>
<L>Iack&s;tro be better, anes ingyn'd,</L>
<L>Or I &s;all flyte again&s;t my &s;ell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But breiflie, bei&s;t, to an&s;were thee,</L>
<L>In &s;ermon &s;hort, I am content,</L>
<L>And &s;ayes thy &s;imilitudes, vn&s;lie,</L>
<L>Are nawayes, very pertinent,</L>
<L>Thy tyr'd compari&s;ons a sklent,</L>
<L>Are mon&s;trous, like the Mule that made them,</L>
<L>Thy borrowed barkings violent,</L>
<L>Yet were they wor&s;e, let men out war them,</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Al&s;o I may be <HI>Chaucers</HI> man,</L>
<L>And yet thy Ma&s;ter, not the le&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>But wolfe that wa&s;tes on Cup and Kan,</L>
<L>In Gluttony, thy grace I gue&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Ga drunken Dyvour, thee addre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And borrow thee, am ba&s;&s;ed breiks,</L>
<L>To heare me now, thy prai&s;e expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Knaue gif thou can, without wat cheiks.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t of thy ju&s;t Genealogie,</L>
<L>Tyke I &s;all tell, the trueth I trow,</L>
<L>Thou was begotten, &s;ome &s;ayes me,</L>
<L>Betwixt the Diuell and a dun Kow,</L>
<L>Ane night when that the fiend was fow,</L>
<L>At banket birland at the beir,</L>
<L>Thou &s;owked &s;yne, ane &s;weit brod &s;ow&punc;</L>
<L>Amang the middings, many a yeir.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>On ruites and runches, in the field,</L>
<L>With nolt, thou nouri&s;h'd was a yeir,</L>
<L>Whill that thou pa&s;t baith poore and peild,</L>
<L>Into Argyle, &s;ome lair to leir,</L>
<L>As the la&s;t night, did weill appeir,</L>
<L>When thou &s;tood fidgeing at the fyre,</L>
<L>Fa&s;t fykand, with thy Heiland cheir,</L>
<L>My flyting forc'd thee &s;a to flyre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into the Land, where thou was borne,</L>
<L>I read of noght but it was skant,</L>
<L>Of Cattell, Cleithing, and of Corne,</L>
<L>Where wealth, and weilfair baith doth want,</L>
<L>Now Tade-face, take this for na tant,</L>
<L>I heare your hou&s;ing is right fair,</L>
<L>Where howlring howlets, ay doth hant,</L>
<L>With Robin red-bre&s;t, but repair.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lords and Lairds within that Land,</L>
<L>I knaw are men of meikill rent,</L>
<PB REF="11">
<L>And liuing as I vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L>Quhilk in ane Innes, we be content</L>
<L>To leiue and let their hou&s;e in Lent:</L>
<L>In Lentron month, and the lang Sommer,</L>
<L>Where twelue Knights kitchins hath a vent</L>
<L>Quhilk for to furni&s;h dois them cumber.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For &s;tore of Lambs, and lang-tail'd wedders</L>
<L>Thou knawes where many couples gaes</L>
<L>For &s;tealing tyed fa&s;t in tedders,</L>
<L>In fellon flockes of anes and twaes,</L>
<L>Abroad athort your bankes and braes,</L>
<L>Ye do abound in Coale and Calke,</L>
<L>And thinkes like fooles to fley all faes,</L>
<L>With Targets, tul&yogh;ies and toome talke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alace poore hood-pikes, hunger-bitten</L>
<L>Accu&s;tom'd with &s;currilitie:</L>
<L>Rydand like boy&s;tures, all be&s;hitten</L>
<L>In fields, without fertilitie:</L>
<L>Bare, barren, with &s;terilitie,</L>
<L>For fault of cattell, corne and ger&s;e,</L>
<L>Your banquets of mo&s;t nobilitie,</L>
<L>Deare of the Dog brawne in the Mer&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Witle&s;&s;e vanter, were thou wife,</L>
<L>Cu&s;troun thou wald, <HI>Cor mundum</HI> cry,</L>
<L>Ou'r-laiden lowne, with lang-tail'd lyce,</L>
<L>Thy doytit dytings &s;oone deny,</L>
<L>Trouker, or I thy trumperie try</L>
<L>And make a legend of thy life:</L>
<L>For flyte I anes, folke will cry fy,</L>
<L>Then thou'll be war'd with euery wife.</L>
</LG>
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<PB REF="11">
<HEAD><HI>Polwarts</HI> Medicine to <HI>Mont|gomerie</HI> being &s;icke.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SIr Swingeour &s;eeing I want wares,</L>
<L>And &s;alues to &s;lake thee of thy &s;aires,</L>
<L>This pre&s;ent from the Pothecares,</L>
<L>Me think meet to amend thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t for thy feuer feid on foly,</L>
<L>With fa&s;ting &s;tomack take oyld-oly,</L>
<L>Mixt with a mouthfull of Melancholy,</L>
<L>From fleame for to defend thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Syne pa&s;&s;e ane &s;pace, and &s;mell a flowre,</L>
<L>Thy inward parts to purge and &s;cowre,</L>
<L>Tak thee three bites of an black howre,</L>
<L>And Ruebarb, bache and bitter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This duely done but any din,</L>
<L>Sup &s;yne &s;ex &s;ops, but &s;omething thin,</L>
<L>Of the Diuell &s;cald thy guts within,</L>
<L>To heale thee of thy skitter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vnto thy bed, &s;yne make thee bown,</L>
<L>Take ane &s;weit Syrop worth a Crowne,</L>
<L>And drink it with the Diuell gadowne</L>
<L>To recreat thy &s;preit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And la&s;t of all, craig in a Cord,</L>
<L>Send for a powder and pay for'd,</L>
<L>Call'd the vengeance of the Lord,</L>
<L>For thy mug mouth mo&s;t meit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gif this pre&s;erue thee not fra paine,</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;e to the Pothingars againe,</L>
<L>Some recipies does yet remaine,</L>
<L>To heale bruik, byle, or bli&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="12">
<LG>
<L>As <HI>diadragma</HI> when ye dine,</L>
<L>Or <HI>diabolicon</HI> wat in wine,</L>
<L>With powder, I drait fellon fine,</L>
<L>And mair yet when ye mi&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Montgomeries</HI> an&s;wer to <HI>Polwart.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VYle venemous viper, wanthriftie&s;t of things,</L>
<L>Half an Elf, half an Aip, of Nature deny it,</L>
<L>Thou flait with a countrey, the quhilk was the Kings,</L>
<L>But that bargan vnbea&s;t, deare &s;all thou buy it,</L>
<L>The cuff is weill waired, that twa hame brings,</L>
<L>This Proverb foull Pelt, to thee is apply it,</L>
<L>Fir&s;t Spider of &s;pyte, thou &s;pewes out &s;prings,</L>
<L>Yet wan&s;hapen woubet, of the weirds invy it,</L>
<L>I can tell thee, how, when, where, and quha gat thee.</L>
<L>The quhilk was neither man nor wife,</L>
<L>Nor humane creature on life,</L>
<L>Thou &s;tink and &s;teirar vp of &s;trife,</L>
<L>Fal&s;e howlat haue at thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In the hinder end of harue&s;t, on Alhallow euen,</L>
<L>When our good nighbours dois ryde, gif I read right,</L>
<L>Some buckled on a bunewand, and &s;ome on a been,</L>
<L>Ay trottand in troupes, from the twylight,</L>
<L>Some &s;a leand a &s;hoe Aipe, all graithed into green,</L>
<L>Some hobland on ane hemp&s;talk, hove and to the hight,</L>
<L>The King of Pharie, and his court, with the Elfe Queene,</L>
<L>With many Elrich Incubus, was rydand that night,</L>
<L>There an Elf on ane Aipe, ane vn&s;ell begat,</L>
<L>Into ane pot, by Pomathorne,</L>
<L>That bratchart, in ane bu&s;&s;e was borne,</L>
<L>The fand ane mon&s;ter on the morne,</L>
<L>War fac'd nor a Cat.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="12">
<LG>
<L>The weird &s;i&s;ters wandring, as they were wont then,</L>
<L>Saw Reavens rugand, at that ratton, be a Ron ruit,</L>
<L>They mu&s;ed at the Mandrake, vnmade like a man,</L>
<L>A Bea&s;t bund with a bonevand, in an old buit,</L>
<L>How that gai&s;t had bein gotten, to ge&s;&s;e they began,</L>
<L>Weill &s;wyl'd in a Swynes skin, and &s;meirit ouer with &s;uit,</L>
<L>The belly that it fir&s;t bair, full bitterly they ban,</L>
<L>Of this mi&s;made Mowdewart, mi&s;chief they muit,</L>
<L>That cruiked, cam&s;choche, croyll, vncri&s;tned they cur&s;e.</L>
<L>They bade that baiche &s;ould not be but</L>
<L>The glengoir, gravell, and the gut,</L>
<L>And all the plagues that fir&s;t were put</L>
<L>Into <HI>Pandoraes</HI> pur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The cogh, and the connogh, the collick, and the cald,</L>
<L>The cords, and the cout-euill, the cla&s;ps and the cleiks,</L>
<L>The hunger, the hart-ill, and the hoi&s;t &s;til thee hald,</L>
<L>The botch, and the barbles, with the Cannigate breiks,</L>
<L>With bockblood, and bean&s;haw, &s;peven &s;prung in the &s;pald,</L>
<L>The fer&s;ie, the falling-euill, that fells many freiks,</L>
<L>Ouergane all with Angleberries as thou growes ald,</L>
<L>The kinkho&s;t, the Charbuckle, and wormes in the cheiks,</L>
<L>The &s;nuff and the &s;noir the chaud peece, and the chanker.</L>
<L>With the blaids and the belly thraw,</L>
<L>The bleiring bats, and the bean&s;chaw,</L>
<L>With the mi&s;chief of the melt and maw,</L>
<L>The clape and the canker.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The frencie, the fluxes, the fyk, and the felt,</L>
<L>The feavers, the fearcie, with the &s;pein&yogh;ie flees,</L>
<L>The doyt, and the di&s;mall, indifferently delt,</L>
<L>The powlings, the pal&s;ay, with pocks like pees,</L>
<L>The &s;werf, and the &s;weiting, with &s;ounding to &s;welt,</L>
<L>The weame-ill, the wild-fire, the vomit, and the vees,</L>
<PB REF="13">
<L>The mair, and the migrame, with meathes in the melt,</L>
<L>The warbles, and the wood-worme, whereof dogs dies,</L>
<L>The tea&s;ick, the tooth-aik, the tirtes and the tirles.</L>
<L>The painfull pople&s;&s;e and pe&s;t,</L>
<L>The rot, the roup, and the auld re&s;t,</L>
<L>With parles and pluri&s;ies oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>And nip'd with the nirles.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Woe worth (quoth the weirds) the wights that thee wroght</L>
<L>Threed-bare be their thrift, as thou art wanthreivin,</L>
<L>Als hard be their hand&s;ell, that helps thee to ought,</L>
<L>The rotten rim of thy womb with Rookes &s;albe reivin,</L>
<L>All bounds where thou bides, to baill &s;albe brought,</L>
<L>Thy Gall, and thy Gui&s;&s;erne, to Glaids &s;all be giuen,</L>
<L>Ay &s;hort be thy &s;olace, with &s;hame be thou &s;ought,</L>
<L>In hell mot thou haunt thee, and hide thee fra Heavin,</L>
<L>And ay as thou auld growes, &s;wa eikand be thy anger.</L>
<L>To liue with limmers, and out lawes,</L>
<L>With hurcheons, eatand hips and hawes,</L>
<L>But when thou comes, where the Cock crawes,</L>
<L>Tary there na langer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Shame and &s;orrow on her &s;nout, that &s;uffers thee to &s;owke,</L>
<L>Or &s;hoe that cares for thy cradill cauld be her ca&s;t,</L>
<L>Or brings any bedding, for thy blae bowke,</L>
<L>Or lou&s;es off thy lingals, &s;a lang as they may la&s;t,</L>
<L>Or offers thee any thing, all the lang owke,</L>
<L>Or fir&s;t refre&s;heth thee with food, how beit thou &s;ould fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Or when thy duddes are bedirten, that giues them ane dowk,</L>
<L>All groomes when thou greits, at thy ganting be aga&s;t,</L>
<L>Als froward be thy fortune, as foule is thy forme.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t &s;even yeirs, be thou dumb, and deiff,</L>
<L>And after that a common theiff,</L>
<L>Thus art thou marked for mi&s;cheiff,</L>
<L>Foule vnworthy worme.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="13">
<LG>
<L>Outrow'd be thy tongue, yet tratling all times,</L>
<L>Ay the langer that thou liues, thy lucke be the le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>All countries where thou comes, accu&s;e thee of crimes,</L>
<L>And fal&s;e be thy fingers, but leath to confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Ay raving, and rageing, in rude rat rymes,</L>
<L>All ill be thou v&s;eand, and ay in exce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Ilk Moone be thou mad, fra pa&s;t be the primes,</L>
<L>Still plagu'd with povertie, thy pryde to oppre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>With warwolfes, and wild Cats, thy weird be to wander,</L>
<L>Draglit throw dirtie dubs and dykes,</L>
<L>Tou&s;led and tuggled, with town Tykes,</L>
<L>Say lou&s;ie lyar what thou lykes,</L>
<L>Thy tongue is na &s;clander.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fra the &s;i&s;ters had feene, the &s;hape of that &s;hit</L>
<L>Little luck be thy lot, there where thou lyes,</L>
<L>Thy fowmard face, quoth the fir&s;t, to flyt &s;albe fit,</L>
<L><HI>Nicneuen</HI> quoth the next, &s;all nouri&s;h thee twy&s;e,</L>
<L>To ryd Po&s;t to Elphin, naneabler nor it,</L>
<L>To driue dogs but to dryt, the third can devy&s;e,</L>
<L>All thy dayes &s;all thou be, of ane body but a bit,</L>
<L>Als &s;uch is this &s;entence, as &s;harp is thy &s;y&s;e,</L>
<L>Syne duely they deem'd, what death it &s;ould die:</L>
<L>The fir&s;t &s;aid, &s;urely of a &s;hot,</L>
<L>Thee &s;econd of a running knot,</L>
<L>The third be thro wing of the throt,</L>
<L>Like a tyke ouer ane tree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the weird &s;i&s;ters, had thus voted all in ane voyce,</L>
<L>The deid of the dablet, and &s;yn they withdrew,</L>
<L>To let it ly all allaine, they thoght it littill lo&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>In a den be a dyke, or the day dew:</L>
<L>Than a cleir company, came &s;oone after clo&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Nicneuen</HI> with her nymphes, in number anew,</L>
<L>With charmes from Caitnes, and Chanrie of Ro&s;&s;e,</L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>Who&s;e cunning con&s;i&s;ts in ca&s;ting of a Clew,</L>
<L>They &s;eeing this &s;airie thing, &s;aid to them &s;elf,</L>
<L>This thriftles thing is meit for vs,</L>
<L>And for our craft commodious,</L>
<L>Ane vglie Ape, and Incubus,</L>
<L>Gotten with an Elf.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thir venerable Virgins, whom the warld call witches,</L>
<L>In the time of their triumph, tirr'd me the Taide,</L>
<L>Some backward raid on brod&s;owes, &amp; &s;ome on black bitches,</L>
<L>Some in &s;teid of a &s;taig, ouer a &s;tark Monk &s;traid,</L>
<L>Fra the how to the hight, &s;ome hobles, &s;ome hatches,</L>
<L>With their mouthes to the Moone, murgeons they maid,</L>
<L>Some be force in effect, the foure windes fetches,</L>
<L>And nyne times wither&s;hins, about the thorne raid,</L>
<L>Some glowring to the ground, &s;ome grievou&s;ly gaipes.</L>
<L>Be craft conjureand fiends perforce</L>
<L>Furth of a Cairne, be&s;ide a croce,</L>
<L>Thir Ladies lighted fra their hor&s;e,</L>
<L>And band them with raipes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Syne bare-foot, and bare-leg'd to baptize that bairne,</L>
<L>Till a water they went, be a wood &s;ide,</L>
<L>They &s;and the &s;hit, all be&s;hitten in the awin &s;hearne,</L>
<L>On three headed <HI>Hecatus,</HI> to heir them they cryde,</L>
<L>As we haue found in the field, this findling forfairne,</L>
<L>Fir&s;t his faith he for&s;akes in thee to confyde,</L>
<L>Be vertue of thir words, and this raw yearne,</L>
<L>And whill this thri&s;e thretty knots, on this blew threed byd,</L>
<L>And of thir mens members, weill &s;ow'd to a &s;hoe,</L>
<L>Whilk's we haue tane, fra top to rae,</L>
<L>Euen of ane hundreth men and mae,</L>
<L>Now grant vs godde&s;&s;e or we gae,</L>
<L>Our dueties to doe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be the hight of the hevins, and be the howne&s;&s;e of hell,</L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>Be the windes and the weirds, and the Charlewaine,</L>
<L>Be the hornes, the hand&s;taff and the kings ell,</L>
<L>Be thunder, be fyreflaughts, be drouth and be raine,</L>
<L>Be the Poles and the Planets, and the Signes all twell,</L>
<L>Be the mirknes of the Moone, let mirknes remaine,</L>
<L>Be the Elements all, that our crafts can compell,</L>
<L>Be the fiends infernall, and the furies in paine,</L>
<L>Gar all the Gai&s;ts of the deid, that dwels there downe,</L>
<L>In <HI>Lethe</HI> and <HI>Styx</HI> thae &s;tinkand &s;trands,</L>
<L>And <HI>Pluto</HI> that your Court commands,</L>
<L>Receiue this howlat aff our hands,</L>
<L>In name of <HI>Mahowne.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That this worme in our worke, &s;ome wonders may wirk,</L>
<L>And through the poy&s;on of this Pod, our pratiques prevaill,</L>
<L>To cut aff our cumber, fra comming to the Kirk,</L>
<L>For the half of our help, and hes it heir haill,</L>
<L>Let neuer this vndoght, of ill doing irk,</L>
<L>But ay blyth to begin, all barret and baill,</L>
<L>Of all blis let it be, als bair as the birk,</L>
<L>That titte&s;t the taidrell may tell ane ill taill,</L>
<L>Let no vice in this warld, in this wanthrift be wanted.</L>
<L>Be they had &s;aid, the fireflaughts flew,</L>
<L>Baith thunder, raine, and winds blew,</L>
<L>Wherebe their comming, commers knew</L>
<L>Their asking was granted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When thae Dames devotely had done their devore,</L>
<L>In heauing this hurcheon, they ha&s;ted them hame,</L>
<L>Of that matter to make, remained no more,</L>
<L>Sauing nixt how thae Nunnes, that working &s;ould name,</L>
<L>They kow'd all the kytrall, the face of it before,</L>
<L>And nipp'd it &s;a doones neir to &s;ee it was &s;hame,</L>
<L>They call'd it peil'd <HI>Polwart,</HI> they pull'd it &s;o &s;ore,</L>
<L>Where we clip, quoth the commers, there needs na kame,</L>
<L>For we haue heght to <HI>Mahoun</HI> for hand&s;ell this hair,</L>
<L>They made it like ane &s;craped &s;wyne,</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>And as they Cow'd, they made it whryne,</L>
<L>It &s;hav'd the &s;elf, ay on &s;en&s;yne</L>
<L>The beard of it &s;a bair.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fra the Kummers that Crab, had with <HI>Pluto</HI> contracted,</L>
<L>They promei&s;t as parents, &s;yne for their own part,</L>
<L>A mover of mi&s;chief, and they might for to make it,</L>
<L>As ane Imp of all ill, mai&s;t apt for their Art,</L>
<L><HI>Nicneuen</HI> as nuri&s;h, to teach it, gart take it,</L>
<L>To &s;aill &s;ure in a &s;eiff, but compa&s;&s;e or Cairt,</L>
<L>And milk of ane haird tedder, thoght wiues &s;ould be wrackit,</L>
<L>And the Kow gif a chopin, was wont to giue a quart,</L>
<L>Many babes, and bairnes, &s;all bli&s;&s;e thy bair banes,</L>
<L>When they haue neither milk nor meill,</L>
<L>Compell'd for hunger for to &s;teill,</L>
<L>Than &s;all they giue thee to the Deill,</L>
<L>Able ofter nor anes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be ane after midnight, their office was ended,</L>
<L>At that tyd, was na tyme, for troumpers to tary,</L>
<L>Syne backward on hor&s;eback, brauely they bended,</L>
<L>That cammo&s;ed Cocatrice, they quite with them cary,</L>
<L>To <HI>Kait</HI> of <HI>Creif</HI> in ane creill &s;oone they gar'd &s;end it,</L>
<L>Where &s;euin yeir it &s;at, baith &s;inged and &s;arie,</L>
<L>The kin of it be the cry, incontinent kend it,</L>
<L>Syne fetch't food for to feid it, furth fra the Pharie,</L>
<L>Ilk Elf of them all brought an almous hou&s;e O&s;ter.</L>
<L>Indeid it was a dainty di&s;h,</L>
<L>A foull flegmatick foul&s;ome fi&s;h,</L>
<L>In &s;teid of &s;auce, on it they pi&s;h,</L>
<L>Sik food, feed &s;ik a fo&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Syne fra the fathers &s;ide, finely had fed it,</L>
<L>Many monkes and marma&s;its, came with the mother,</L>
<L>Black botch fall the brei&s;t, and the bellie that bred it.</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>Ay offered they that vndoght, fra ane to another,</L>
<L>Where that &s;matched had &s;owked, &s;a &s;air it was to &s;hed it,</L>
<L>But belyue it beganne, to buckie the brother,</L>
<L>In the barke of ane bourtree, whylome they bed it.</L>
<L>All talking with their tongues, the ane to the other,</L>
<L>With flirting, and flyring, their Phy&s;nome they flype.</L>
<L>Some luikand lyce, in the crowne of it keeks,</L>
<L>Some choppes the kiddes into heir cheeks,</L>
<L>Some in their ox&s;ter hard it cleeks,</L>
<L>Like an auld bag-pipe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With mudyones, and murgeons, and mouing the braine,</L>
<L>They lay it, they lift it, they lou&s;e it, they lace it,</L>
<L>They graip it, they grip it It greets and they grane,</L>
<L>They bed it, they baw it, they bind it, they brace it,</L>
<L>It skittered, and skar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, they skirl'd ilk ane,</L>
<L>All the Ky in the countrey they skarred, and chaced,</L>
<L>That roaring, they wood-ran, and routed in a reane,</L>
<L>The wild deere fra their den, their din hes di&s;placed,</L>
<L>The cry was &s;a ouglie, of Elfes Aipes and Owles,</L>
<L>That gei&s;e and gai&s;ling, cryes and craikes,</L>
<L>In dubs douks down, Duikes and draikes,</L>
<L>All bea&s;ts for feir, the fields for&s;akes,</L>
<L>And the towne Tykes yowles.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sik a mirthle&s;&s;e Mu&s;ick thir men&s;tralls did make,</L>
<L>Whill Ky ke&s;t caprels, behind with their heeles,</L>
<L>Littill tent to their time, the Toone leit them take,</L>
<L>But ay rammei&s;t red wood, and ravel'd in their reeles,</L>
<L>Then the cummers that ye ken came all with a clak.</L>
<L>To conjure that coidyoch, with clewes in their creeles,</L>
<L>Whill all the bounds them about, grew blaikned and black,</L>
<L>For the din of thir daiblets, rai&s;'d all the deils,</L>
<L>To concurre in the cau&s;e they were come &s;a far,</L>
<L>For they their god-bairne gifts wald giue,</L>
<L>To teach the child, to &s;teale and reiue.</L>
<PB REF="16">
<L>And ay the langer that it liue,</L>
<L>The warld &s;ould be the war.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Polwarts</HI> third flytting again&s;t <HI>Montgomerie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>INfernall frawart, feaming furies fell,</L>
<L>Cur&s;t, canker'd, crabed <HI>(Clotho)</HI> help to quell,</L>
<L>Yon <HI>Caribald,</HI> yone catiue execrabill,</L>
<L>Provyde my pen profoundly to di&s;tell,</L>
<L>Some dure de&s;pite to daunt yon deuill of hell,</L>
<L>And dryve with doole, to death dete&s;tabill,</L>
<L>This mad malitious mon&s;ter mi&s;erabill,</L>
<L>Ane tyke tormented, trotting out of toone,</L>
<L>That rymes red wood at ilk middes of the Moone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Renew your roaring rage, and eager Ire,</L>
<L>Inflam'd with fearefull thundring, thuddes of fyre,</L>
<L>To plague this poy&s;on'd pykthank, pe&s;tilent,</L>
<L>With flying fyre flaughts, burning bright and &s;hyre,</L>
<L>Devoir yon de vili&s;h dragon, I de&s;ire,</L>
<L>And wa&s;te his wearied venome violent,</L>
<L>Conjure this bea&s;tly begger impotent,</L>
<L>Suppre&s;&s;e all power of this euill &s;pirit,</L>
<L>That bydes and barkes in him als black as Ieit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But reekie Rookes and Ravens or yee ryue him,</L>
<L>De&s;i&s;t, delay his death, whill I de&s;criue him,</L>
<L>Syne rypely to his rauing rude reply,</L>
<L>To dreadfull dolour, dearfly or ye dryve him,</L>
<L>Throw <HI>Plutoes</HI> power, plea&s;ure to depryue him,</L>
<L>The Lown may lick his vomit, and deny</L>
<L>His &s;hameles &s;awes, like Sathans &s;lavi&s;h &s;my.</L>
<L>Who&s;e maners, with his mi&s;made members heir,</L>
<L>Doe corre&s;pond, as plainly doth appeir.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="16">
<LG>
<L>His peilled pallat, and vnplea&s;ant pow,</L>
<L>The ful&s;ome flocks of flies dois ouerflow,</L>
<L>With wames and wounds all blaikned full of blaines,</L>
<L>Out ouer the neck, athort his nitty now,</L>
<L>Ilke lou&s;e lyes linkand, lyke a large lint bow,</L>
<L>That hurts his harnes, and pear&s;e them to his paines.</L>
<L>Whill wit and vertue vani&s;h'd fra the vaines,</L>
<L>With &s;carts and &s;cores, athort his frozen front,</L>
<L>In rankels run within the &s;tewes all brunt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His lugs baith lang and leane, wha can but lacke,</L>
<L>That to the Tron hes tane &s;o many a tacke,</L>
<L>With bla&s;ted bowels, bowdon with brui&s;ed blude,</L>
<L>And hapning haires, blawin widther&s;uns aback,</L>
<L>Foot foundred bea&s;ts, for fault of food, full weake,</L>
<L>Hes not their hair &s;a &s;nod as other good,</L>
<L>The bleared Bucke and boy&s;trous to conclude,</L>
<L>Hes right trim teeth &s;ome what &s;et in a thraw,</L>
<L>Ane topped turde, right teughly for to taw.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With laidly lips, and lyning &s;ide turn'd out,</L>
<L>His no&s;e weill lit in <HI>Bacchus</HI> blood about,</L>
<L>His &s;tinking end, corrupted as men knawes,</L>
<L>Contagious cankers, carues his &s;nafling &s;nout,</L>
<L>His &s;haven &s;houlders, &s;hawes the markes no dout,</L>
<L>Of teugh tarledders, tyres and other tawes,</L>
<L>And girds of Galeyes growand now in gawes,</L>
<L>Swa all his fou&s;ome forme thereto effeirs,</L>
<L>The quhilk for filth, I will not fyle your eirs.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part of <HI>Polwarts</HI> third flytting.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>BVt of his conditions to carp for a whyle,</L>
<L>And compt you his qualities, compa&s;t with cair,</L>
<PB REF="17">
<L>Appardon me Poets, to alter my &s;tyle,</L>
<L>And wi&s;&s;le my ver&s;e, for fyling the air,</L>
<L>Returning directly again to <HI>Argyle,</HI></L>
<L>Where la&s;t that I left him, baith barefoot and bair,</L>
<L>Where rightly I reckoned, his race very vyle,</L>
<L>Di&s;cending of Deuils, as I did declair,</L>
<L>But quhilk of the Gods, will guide me aright:</L>
<L>Abhorring, &s;o abhominable,</L>
<L>Sa doolefull, and dete&s;table,</L>
<L>Sa knaui&s;h canker'd, execrable,</L>
<L>And waried a wight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In <HI>Argyle</HI> amang Gaits, he gead within glennes,</L>
<L>Ay there v&s;ing offices, of a bruit bea&s;t,</L>
<L>Whill bli&s;le&s;&s;e was bani&s;h'd, for handling of hennes,</L>
<L>Syne forward to <HI>Flanders,</HI> fa&s;t fled or he cea&s;t,</L>
<L>From poore anes the pultrie, he plucked be the pennes,</L>
<L>Delighting in theft, the heart of his bre&s;t,</L>
<L>And courage inclin'd, to knauerie men kennes,</L>
<L>To pe&s;tilent purpo&s;es plainly he prea&s;t,</L>
<L>But truely to tell all the trueth vnto you.</L>
<L>In nowayes was he wy&s;e,</L>
<L>He v&s;ed both Cairts and Dyce,</L>
<L>And fled no kind of vyce,</L>
<L>Or few as I trow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He was ane fal&s;e Schi&s;matick, notoriou&s;lie named,</L>
<L>Both whoredome, and homicide, vn&s;ell he v&s;ed,</L>
<L>With all the &s;euen &s;innes, the &s;matched was &s;hamed,</L>
<L>Pride, Ire, and envy, this vndoght abu&s;ed,</L>
<L>For greedy covetou&s;nes, bitterly blamed</L>
<L>For bawdrie, and bordelling, luckle&s;&s;e he loued,</L>
<L>Thri&s;t, drynes, and drunkennes, the dyvour defamed,</L>
<L>Fal&s;e, fen&yogh;eit, with flyting, and flattery infu&s;ed,</L>
<L>Mai&s;t &s;infull, and &s;en&s;uall, &s;hame to reher&s;e,</L>
<L>Who&s;e feckles fooli&s;hnes,</L>
<PB REF="17">
<L>And bea&s;tly bruklenes,</L>
<L>Can no man as I ge&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Weill put into ver&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ane warloch, ane warwolfe, ane woubet but hair,</L>
<L>Ane deill, and a Dragon, ane deid Dromadarie,</L>
<L>Ane counterfoot cu&s;troun, that clarks dois not cair</L>
<L>Ane clavering cohooby, that cracks of the Pharie,</L>
<L>Who&s;e favourles Phi&s;nome, doth dewly declair,</L>
<L>His vices, and viciou&s;nes, althogh I wald varie,</L>
<L><HI>Arcandam's</HI> A&s;trology, ane lanterne of lair,</L>
<L>Affirmes his bleardnes, to wi&s;dome contrary,</L>
<L>Betaikning, baith babling and beldnes of age,</L>
<L>Great fraud, and foull deceit,</L>
<L>Cappit, with quyet conceit,</L>
<L>Witnes &s;ome ver&s;e he wreit,</L>
<L>Half daft in a rage.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Anagrame al&s;o, concerning that cace,</L>
<L>Sayes &s;urely, it's a &s;igne of a lecherous Lowne,</L>
<L>His palenes next partly, with brown in the face,</L>
<L><HI>Arcandam</HI> a&s;criues, to babling ay bowne,</L>
<L>And tratling intemperat, tymeles, but place,</L>
<L>A cowart yet cholerick, and drunke in ilk town,</L>
<L>And als his a&s;&s;e eares, they &s;igne in &s;hort &s;pace,</L>
<L>The frantick foole &s;all grow mad like <HI>Mahowne,</HI></L>
<L>But yet &s;all he liue long, whilk alas were a lo&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>For &s;ik a tryed traitour,</L>
<L>And babling bla&s;phematour,</L>
<L>Was neuer form'd of Nature,</L>
<L>Sa gooked a Goo&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who&s;e origine noble the note of his name</L>
<L>Cal'd Etimologie, beirs rightly record,</L>
<L>His &s;urname doth flow, fra twa termes of diffame,</L>
<L>From <HI>Mont</HI> and <HI>Gomora,</HI> where divels be the Lord,</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>His kin&s;men was cleinly ca&s;t out to his &s;hame,</L>
<L>That is of their clan, whom Chri&s;t hath abhor'd,</L>
<L>And beiris of the birth place, their horrible name,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Sodomite</HI> &s;inners, with &s;tinking were &s;mor'd.</L>
<L>Now &s;en all is &s;uith that's &s;aid of this &s;my,</L>
<L>Vnto that capped Clark,</L>
<L>And pretty piece of wark,</L>
<L>That bitterly doth bark,</L>
<L>I may this reply.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Polwarts</HI> la&s;t flytting again&s;t <HI>Montgomerie.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VYle villaine vaine, and war nor I haue tauld thee.</L>
<L>Thy withered wame, is damnified and cry'd,</L>
<L>Be&s;hitten boy&s;tour, baldly I forbad thee,</L>
<L>To mell with me, or els thou &s;ould deare buy it,</L>
<L>Thy &s;peach but purpo&s;e, &s;porter is e&s;pyed,</L>
<L>That wrytes of witches, warlocks, wraiths, and wratches,</L>
<L>But Invectiues again&s;t him well defyed,</L>
<L><HI>Rob Stevin</HI> thou raues, forgetting whom thou matches,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Leaue boggles, brownies, Gyre-carlings, and Gai&s;ts,</L>
<L>Da&s;tard thou daffes, that with &s;uch devilrie mels,</L>
<L>Thy peil'd preambles ouer prolixly la&s;ts,</L>
<L>Thy rea&s;ons &s;avors of reek and nothing els,</L>
<L>Thy &s;entences, of &s;uit &s;a &s;weitly &s;mels,</L>
<L>Thou &s;at &s;a neir the chimney nuik that made them,</L>
<L>Fa&s;t be the Ingle, amang the Oy&s;ter &s;hels,</L>
<L>Dreidand my danger, dur&s;t not weill debate them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy tratling, Truiker, wald gar Taides &s;pew,</L>
<L>And Carle Cats, weep vinegar with their eine,</L>
<L>Thou &s;aid I borrowed, blad's that is noght trew,</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>The contrary fals &s;matched &s;albe &s;eene,</L>
<L>I neuer had of that making ye meine</L>
<L>A ver&s;e in write, in print, or yet perqueir,</L>
<L>Quhilk I can proue, and clean&s;e me wonder cleine,</L>
<L>Thogh &s;ingle words no writer can forbeir,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To proue my &s;peeches probable, and plaine,</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, thou v&s;ed my invention,</L>
<L>I reckoned fir&s;t thy race, &s;yne thou againe,</L>
<L>In that &s;ame &s;ort, made of thy Mai&s;ter mention,</L>
<L>Thy wit is weake, with me to haue di&s;&s;ention,</L>
<L>For to my &s;peech thou never made reply,</L>
<L>At liberty to lie is thy intention,</L>
<L>I an&s;wer ay, quhilk thou can not deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy friends are fiends, of Apes thou fen&yogh;ies mine;</L>
<L>With my a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;aying all thou can,</L>
<L>I count &s;ik kinred, better yet nor thine,</L>
<L>Chiefly of bea&s;ts, that mo&s;t re&s;emble man,</L>
<L>Grant gif that my invention wars thine then,</L>
<L>Without the whilk, thou might haue barked wai&s;t</L>
<L>I laid the ground, whereon thou be&s;t began,</L>
<L>To big the brig, whereof thou brags mai&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy lack of Iudgment, may be als perceaued,</L>
<L>Thirtwa chief points of rea&s;on wants in thee,</L>
<L>Thou attributes to Aipes, where thou hes reaved,</L>
<L>The ills of hor&s;e, ane mon&s;trous &s;ight to &s;ee.</L>
<L>Na marvell thogh ill won, ill waired be,</L>
<L>For all the&s;e ills, thou &s;taw I am right certain,</L>
<L>From <HI>Semples</HI> dytements, of ane hor&s;e did die,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Porterfields,</HI> that dwelt into <HI>Dumbartan.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Amang the ills of Aipes, that thou hes tauld,</L>
<L>Thogh to ane hor&s;e, perteining properly,</L>
<L>Thou puts the &s;paven, in the forder &s;pauld,</L>
<L>That v&s;es in the hinder hogh to be,</L>
<PB REF="19">
<L>Fra hor&s;men anes thy cunning heare and &s;ee,</L>
<L>I feare auld <HI>Allane</HI> get na mair adoe,</L>
<L>A llace poore man he may lye down and die,</L>
<L>Syne thou's &s;ucceed to weare the &s;ilver &s;hoe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Farder thou flies with other fowles wings,</L>
<L>Ouer-cled with cleiter collours than thy awin,</L>
<L>But &s;pecially with &s;ome of <HI>Semples</HI> things,</L>
<L>Or for an plucked goo&s;e, thou had been knawin,</L>
<L>Or like ane Cran, in mounting &s;oon o'rethrowen,</L>
<L>That mu&s;t take ay, nyn &s;teps before &s;hoe flye,</L>
<L>So in the gout, thou might haue &s;tand &amp; blowen,</L>
<L>As long as thou lay gravelled, like to die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;peake not of thy vitious divi&s;ions,</L>
<L>Where thou pronounces, &amp; yet propones but part</L>
<L>Incumbred with &s;a many tryed confu&s;ions</L>
<L>Quhilk &s;hawes thy rime but rhetorick or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">rt,</L>
<L>Thy memory is &s;hort, be &s;hrew thy hart,</L>
<L>Telling ane thing ouer twy&s;e or thry&s;e at anes,</L>
<L>And can not from ane proper place depart,</L>
<L>Except I were to frig thee with whin &s;tanes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The things I &s;aid gif that thou wald deny,</L>
<L>Meaning to wry the verity with wyles,</L>
<L>Lick where I laid, and pickle of that pye,</L>
<L>Thy knavery, credence fra thee quite exyles,</L>
<L>Thy feckles folly, all the air defyles,</L>
<L>I find &s;a many faults, ilk ane ouer vther,</L>
<L>Fir&s;t I mu&s;t tell thee all thy &s;tately &s;tyles,</L>
<L>And &s;yne bequeath thee to thy birken brother.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fond flytter, &s;hit &s;hyter, bacon bytter, all defyl'd,</L>
<L>Blunt bleit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ar, paddock pricker puddin eiter, perver&s;e,</L>
<L>Hen plucker, clo&s;et mucker, hou&s;e cucker, very vyld,</L>
<L>Tauny cheeks, I think thou &s;peiks, with thy breeks, foul er&s;e,</L>
<PB REF="19">
<L>Woodtyk, hoodpyk, ay like, to liue in lacke,</L>
<L>Flowre the pin, &s;cabbed skin, eat it in, that thou &s;pake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gume gade, bald skade, foull fa'd, why flait thou foole,</L>
<L>Steill Yow, fill tow, thou dow, not defend thee,</L>
<L>Quha kend, thy end, fal&s;e fiend, phanta&s;tick mule,</L>
<L>Thief &s;my, they wald cry, fy fy, to gar end thee,</L>
<L>Sweir &s;ow, doyl'd kow, ay fow, foull fall thy banes,</L>
<L>Very wyld, defyl'd, ay wood wyld, ilk moneth anes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tary tade, thou's defate; now debate, if thou dow,</L>
<L>Hu&s;h padle, lick ladle, &s;hyte &s;adle, do thy be&s;t,</L>
<L>Crei&s;hie &s;outter, &s;hoe cloutter, minch moutter, dar thou mow,</L>
<L>Ragged railer, &s;heep &s;tealer, double dealer, thou's be dre&s;t.</L>
<L>Fals preif, leane theif, mi&s;cheif, fall thy lippes,</L>
<L>Blaird beard, thy reward, is prepar'd, for thy hippes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Er&s;e &s;laiker, gle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> glaiker, roome raiker, for releif,</L>
<L>Lunatick, frenatick, &s;chi&s;matick, Swingeour &s;ob,</L>
<L>Turd fac'd, ay cha&s;'d, almai&s;t, fyld for a theif,</L>
<L>Mi&s;ly kyt, and thou flyt, Ile dryt in thy gob,</L>
<L>Tait mow, wilde &s;ow, &s;oone bow, or I wand thee,</L>
<L>Hell ruik, with thy buik, leaue the nuik, I command thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Land lowper, light skowper, ragged rowper, like a Raven,</L>
<L>Halland &s;haker, draught raiker, bannock-baiker, all be&s;hitten</L>
<L>Craig in perill, toom the barrel, quyt the quarrel, or be &s;haven</L>
<L>Rude ratler, common tratler, poore pratler, out flitten,</L>
<L>Hell &s;park, &s;cabbed Clark, and thou bark, I &s;all belt rhee,</L>
<L>Skade &s;cald, ouerbald, &s;oone fald, or I melt thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Low&s;ie lugs, leape jugs, toome the mugs, on the midding,</L>
<L>Tanny flank, red&s;hank, pykthank, I mu&s;t pay thee,</L>
<L>Spew bleck, widdie neck, come and beck, at my bidding,</L>
<L>Fal&s;e Lowne, make thee bowne, <HI>Mahowne,</HI> mon haue thee,</L>
<L>Rank ruittour, &s;curlie wittour, and Iuitour, nane fower,</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L>Decre&s;t, oppre&s;t, po&s;&s;e&s;t, with <HI>Plutoes</HI> power.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Capped knaue, proud &s;laue, ye raue, ay vnrocked,</L>
<L>Whiles &s;laverand, whiles taverand whiles wavera~d, with wine</L>
<L>Greedy gouked, poor &amp; pluked, il in&s;tructed, ye's be knoked,</L>
<L>Gley'd gangrell, auld mangrell, to the hangrell, and &s;a pyne,</L>
<L>Calumniatour, bla&s;phematour, vyle creature vntrew,</L>
<L>Thy cheiping, and peiping, with weiping, thou &s;alt rew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mad manter, vain vaunter, ay haunter in &s;lauery,</L>
<L>Pudding pricker, bang the bicker, nane quicker, in knavery,</L>
<L>Kailly lips, ki&s;&s;e my hips, into grips, thou's behind,</L>
<L>Baill brewer, poi&s;on &s;pewer, mony trewer, hes bein pind,</L>
<L>Swyne keiper, land leiper, tuird &s;teiper, from the drouth,</L>
<L>Leane limmer, &s;teale gimmer, I &s;all skimmer in thy mouth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fley'd foole, mad muile, die with doole, on ane aike,</L>
<L>Knaue kend, Chri&s;t &s;end, ill end, on thee now</L>
<L>Pudding wright, out of &s;ight, thou's be d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">, like a draike,</L>
<L>Iock blunt, thrawin frunt, ki&s;&s;e the cunt, of the Kow,</L>
<L>Pur&s;e peiller, hen &s;teiller, Cat killer, now I quell thee.</L>
<L>Rubiatour fornicatour, by nature, foull befall thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tyk &s;tickar, poy&s;on'd Viccar, pot lickar, I mon pay thee,</L>
<L>Fear'd flyar, loud lyar, gooked gleyar, on the gallows,</L>
<L>Iock blunt, deid runt, I &s;all dunt, whill I &s;lay thee,</L>
<L>Buttrie bag, fill knag, thou will rag, with thy fellows,</L>
<L>Tyr'd clatterer, skin batterer, and flatterer of friends,</L>
<L>Vyld widdered, mi&s;ordered, confedered with fiends.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Blind brock, loo&s;e dock, bor'd block, bani&s;h'd townes,</L>
<L>Alace, theifes face, na grace, for that grun&yogh;ie,</L>
<L>Beld bi&s;&s;et, marmi&s;&s;ed, lan&s;pre&yogh;ed, to the lownes,</L>
<L>Deid dring, dry'd &s;ting, thou will hing, but a &s;un&yogh;ie,</L>
<L>Lick butter, throat cutter, fi&s;h gutter, fill the fetter,</L>
<L>Come bleitand, and greitand, fa&s;t eitand, thy laidley letter,</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="20" MS="y">
<PB REF="21">
<PB REF="21">
<PB REF="22">
<PB REF="22">
</DIV2>
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