StoryTitle("caps", "The~Bludy~Serk") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This hinder yeir I hard be tald", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thair was a worthy King;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dukis, Erlis, and Barronis bald,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He had at his bidding.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lord was ancean and ald,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sexty yeiris cowth ring;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had a dochter fair to fald,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A lusty Lady ying.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Off all fairheid scho bur the flour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And eik hir faderis air; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Off lusty laitis and he honour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Meik, bot and debonair:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scho wynnit in a bigly bour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On fold wes nane so fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Princis luvit hir paramour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In cuntreis our allquhair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thair dwelt a lyt besyde the King", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A foull Gyand of ane;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stollin he has the Lady ying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Away with hir is gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kest her in his dungering", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhair licht scho micht se nane;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hungir and cauld and grit thristing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Scho fand into hir waine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He wes the laithliest on to luk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That on the grund mycht gang:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His nailis wes lyk ane hellis cruk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thairwith fyve quarteris lang;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thair wes nane that he ourtuk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In rycht or yit in wrang,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bot all in schondir he thame schuk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Gyand wes so strang.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He held the Lady day and nycht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Within his deip dungeoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He wald nocht gif of hir a sicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For gold nor yit ransoun—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bot gif the King mycht get a knycht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To fecht with his persoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To fecht with him beth day and nycht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhill ane wer dungin doun. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King gart seik baith fer and neir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Beth be se and land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Off ony knycht gif he mycht heir", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wald fecht with that Gyand:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A worthy Prince, that had no peir, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hes tane the deid on hand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the luve of the Lady cleir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And held full trew cunnand.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That Prince come prowdly to the toun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of that Gyand to heir, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fawcht with him, his awin persoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tuke him presoneir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kest him in his awin dungeoun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Allane withouten feir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With hungir, cauld, and confusioun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As full weill worthy weir.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Syne brak the bour, had hame the bricht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unto her fadir fre.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sa evill wondit wes the Knycht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That he behuvit to de; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unlusum was his likame dicht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His sark was all bludy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In all the world was thair a wicht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So peteouss for to se?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lady murnyt and maid grit mane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With all her mekill mycht—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I luvit nevir lufe bot ane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That dulfully now is dicht;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "God sen my lyfe were fra me tane", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or I had seen yone sicht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or ellis in begging evir to gane", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Furth with yone curtass knycht.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said \"Fair lady, now mone I", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "De, trestly ye me trow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take ye my serk that is bludy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hing it forrow yow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "First think on it, and syne on me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhen men cumis yow to wow.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lady said \"Be Mary fre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thairto I mak a vow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhen that scho lukit to the sark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Scho thocht on the persoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And prayit for him with all hir hart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That lowsit hir of bandoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhair scho was wont to sit full merk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into that deip dungeoun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And evir quhill scho wes in quert,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That wess hir a lessoun.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sa weill the Lady luvit the Knycht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That no man wald scho tak: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sa suld we do our God of micht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That did all for us mak;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhilk fullily to deid was dicht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For sinfull manis sak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sa suld we do beth day and nycht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With prayaris to him mak.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This King is lyk the Trinité,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Baith in hevin and heir;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The manis saule to the Lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Gyand to Lucefeir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Knycht to Chryst, that deit on tre", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And coft our synnis deir;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pit to Hele with panis fell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Syn to the woweir.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lady was wowd, but scho said nay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With men that wald hir wed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sa suld we wryth all sin away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That in our breist is bred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I pray to Jesu Chryst verray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For ws his blud that bled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be our help on domisday", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhair lawis ar straitly led.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The saule is Godis dochtir deir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And eik his handewerk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That was betrayit with Lucefeir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quha sittis in hell full merk:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Borrowit with Chrystis angell cleir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hend men, will ye nocht herk?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for his lufe that bocht us deir", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Think on the BLUDY SERK!", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Henryson", "1425-1500") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>