StoryTitle("caps", "Lament for~the~Makers") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I that in heill was and gladnéss", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Am trublit now with great sickness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And feblit with infirmitie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our plesance here is all vain glory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This fals world is but transitory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flesh is bruckle, the Feynd is slee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The state of man does change and vary,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now sound, now sick, now blyth, now sary, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now dansand mirry, now like to die:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No state in Erd here standis sicker;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As with the wynd wavis the wicker", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So wannis this world's vanitie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto the Death gois all Estatis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Princis, Prelatis, and Potestatis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Baith rich and poor of all degree:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He takis the knichtis in to the field", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enarmit under helm and scheild;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Victor he is at all mellie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That strong unmerciful tyrand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Takis, on the motheris breast sowkand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The babe full of benignitie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He takis the campion in the stour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The captain closit in the tour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lady in bour full of bewtie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He spairis no lord for his piscence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Na clerk for his intelligence;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His awful straik may no man flee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Art-magicianis and astrologgis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rethoris, logicianis, and theologgis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Them helpis no conclusionis slee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In medecine the most practicianis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leechis, surrigianis, and physicianis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Themself from Death may not supplee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see that makaris amang the lave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Playis here their padyanis, syne gois to grave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sparit is nocht their facultie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has done petuously devour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The noble Chaucer, of makaris flour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Monk of Bury, and Gower, all three:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The good Sir Hew of Eglintoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ettrick, Heriot, and Wintoun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has tane out of this cuntrie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That scorpion fell has done infeck", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Maister John Clerk, and James Afflek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fra ballat-making and tragedie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Holland and Barbour he has berevit;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! that he not with us levit", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Mungo Lockart of the Lee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clerk of Tranent eke he has tane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That made the anteris of Gawaine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Gilbert Hay endit has he:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has Blind Harry and Sandy Traill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slain with his schour of mortal hail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhilk Patrick Johnstoun might nought flee:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has reft Merseir his endite,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That did in luve so lively write,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So short, so quick, of sentence hie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has tane Rowll of Aberdene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And gentill Rowll of Corstorphine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Two better fallowis did no man see:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Dunfermline he has tane Broun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Maister Robert Henrysoun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir John the Ross enbrasit has he:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he has now tane, last of a, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good gentil Stobo and Quintin Shaw,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of quhom all wichtis hes pitie:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good Maister Walter Kennedy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In point of Dedth lies verily; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great ruth it were that so suld be:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sen he has all my brothers tane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He will nocht let me live alane;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of force I mon his next prey be:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since for the Death remeid is none,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Best is that we for Death dispone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "After our death that live may we:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Timor Mortis conturbat me.", "") ?>
Poet("William Dunbar", "1465-1520?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>