StoryTitle("caps", "Freedom") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A! Fredome is a noble thing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fredome mays man to haiff liking; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fredome all solace to man giffis, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He levis at ese that frely levis! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A noble hart may haiff nane ese, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Na ellys nocht that may him plese, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gyff fredome fail'th; for fre liking ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is yharnit ouer all othir thing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Na he that ay has livit fre ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May nocht knaw well the propyrté, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The angyr, na the wretchit doom ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That is couplit to foule thraldome. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But giff he had assayit it, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than all perquer he suld it wit; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And suld think fredome mar to prise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than all the gold in warld that is. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus contrar thingis evermar ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Discoweringis of the tothir ar.", "") ?>
Poet("John Barbour", "d. 1395") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>