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Excerpt from Ancient Scottish Poems, Never Before in Print, Vol. 2: But Now Published From the Ms. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland, of Lethington, Knight, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice
Schortlie, thair is na change within, The court: of firangeris is {a thin And all this {crow, and mifciheif, Is nouther cum of huir nor theif, Nor be the force of enimeis; Ncr be privat confpiraeeis. Bot becaus men hes lattin douit The fair, and market Cf our town. I mean the mercat (if Dtir hors (whilk nather cumis to port, nor cors, ' Nor to the croft our toun befyde (luhar mony ahe was wont to ryde. At guit Sana Lukis nobill fair (whair mony nobills did repair; And for the wery wynter tyd For ryddin hots did thame povyde.
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