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And eke the heavenly postis chrystalline
Upwarpis broad the world til illumine-
Eous, the steed, with ruby amice red,
Above the seais liftis forth his head;

Of colour sore, and some-deal brown as berry,
For to alighten and glad our hemispery,

The flames out birsten at his neiss-thirlis 3

While shortly, with the blasand torch of day,
Abulyeit in his lemand 5 fresh array

Forth of his palace royal ischit Phœbus,

With golden crown, and visage glorious:

Crisp hairis, bright as chrysolite, or topase,
For whois hue might none behold his face;
The fiery sparkis bursting from his een,
Το purge the air, and gild the tender green.—
The aureat fanes of his throne soverain
With glitterand glance o'erspread the ocean;
The large floodis lemand all of light,
But with one blenk of his supernal sight.

For to behold it was a gloire 7 to see

The stabled windis, and the calmed sea,

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4 Habillé, dressed. The final é was, in Old Fr. written cit.

Gleaming, shining.

'Glory. Fr.

6 Look, glance.

The soft season, the firmament serene,
The loun' illumin'd air, and firth amene2
The silver-scaled fishes on the grit,3

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O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkilland+ for the heat;
With finnis shinand brown as cinnabar,
And chizzle tailis stirrand here and there.-
And lusty Flora did her bloomis spread
Under the feet of Phoebus' sulyeart steed:
The swarded soil embrode with selcouth' hues,
Wood and forest obumbrate with the bews;
Whose blissful branches, portray'd on the ground,
With shadows sheen, show roches rubicund,
Tow'rs, turrets, kernells 10 and pinnacles high,
Of kirkis, castles, and ilk fair city;

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Stood painted every fane, phióll," and stage, Upon the plain ground by their own umbrage.

And blissful blossoms, in the bloomed sward, Submits their heads in the young sun's safe-guard: Ivy leaves rank o'erspread the barmkyn 1 wall; The bloomed hawthorn clad his pykis 13 all :

1 Clean.

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* Pleasant plain. 1 Gravel.

4 Darting with a tremulous motion.

6 Embroidered.

9 Rocks.

5 Sultry.

7 Uncommon. Sax. 8 Boughs.
10 Crenelles, Fr. ; battlements.

"Cupola; fiole. Fr.

Fr. the bank of a river.

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Mound, from barme, Old 13 Thorns.

Forth of fresh burgeons, the wine-grapis ying
Endlong the trestles did on twistis hing.2
The locked buttons on the gemmed trees,
O'erspreadand leaves of nature's tapestries
Soft grassy verdure, after balmy showers,
On curland stalkis smiland to their flowers,
Beholdand them so many divers hue,

Some pers,3 some pale,+ some burnet,5 and some blue,
Some grey, some gules, some purpure, some san-

guene,

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Blanchet, or brown, fauch-yellow 3 many ane;
Some, heavenly-colour'd, in celestial gre,9
Some, watery hued, as the haw-waly 10 sea;
And some, depaint in freckles, red and white,
Some bright as gold, with aureate leavis lite: "1
The daisy did un-braid her crownel smale,
And every flow'r un-lapped in the dale--
The flower-de-luce forth spread his heavenly hue,
Flow'r damas,12 and columbo black and blue.
Sere downis small on dandelion sprung,

The young green bloomed strawberry leaves among:

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Gimp gilliflowers their own leaves un-shet: 1
Fresh primrose, and the purpure violet.

The rose-knobbis tetand forth their head,
Gan chip,3 and kyth 4 their vernal lippis red;
Crisp scarlet leaves sheddand, baith at anes,5
Cast fragrant smell amid from golden grains.
Heavenly lilies, with lockerand toppis white,
Opened, and shew their crestis redemite.7

The balmy vapour from their silver croppis 8
Distilland wholesome sugar'd honey-droppis-
So that ilk burgeon, scion, herb, or flow'r,
Wor9 all embalmed of the fresh liquoúr,
And bathed hot did in dulce humours flete,"
Whereof the beeis wrought their honey sweet.-

On salt streams wolk 11 Dorida and Thetis;
By running strandis, nymphs, and naiades,
Sic as we clepe wenches and damisells,
In grassy grovis wandering by spring-wells;

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Both at once, i. e. while some buds were expanding,

other roses were shedding their leaves.

6 Curling like locks or ringlets of hair.

7 Crowned.

9 Grew.

11 Walked?

• Heads.

10 Float.

Of bloomed branches, and flowers white and red, Plaiting their lusty chaplets for their head.

Some sang ring-songis,' dances, ledis,2 and rounds,
With voices shrill while all the vale resounds.
Whereso they walk into their caroling,

For amorous lays does all the roches ring.
One sang
"The ship, sails over the salt foam,
"Will bring thir3 merchants and my leman home."
Some other sings "I will be blythe and light,
66 My heart is lent upon so goodly wight.
And thoughtful lovers rownis 4 to and fro
To lose their pain, and plain their jolly woe;
After their guise, now singand, now in sorrow,
With heartis pensive, the long summer's morrow.
Some, ballads list endite of his lady,
Some lives in hope, and some all utterly
Despaired is; and so, quite out of grace,
His purgatory he finds in every place, &c.

Before we proceed to take notice of the English poets of this reign, it will be necessary to mention two more Scotish writers, whom Gawin Douglas has associated with Dunbar in the "Palace of Honour."

• Rondeaux ? These, or those.

Lays; leid, cantilena. Teut. 4 Whispers.

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