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If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . .
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If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . .
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Now wes the king cumin to the fute of the crag, and all his nobilis severit, heir and thair, fra him, at thair game and solace; quhen suddenlie apperit to his sicht the fairist hart that evir wes sene afore with levand creature.
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At last, quhen he wes cumin throw the vail that lyis to the gret eist fra the said castell, quhare now lyis the Canongait, the staik past throw the wod with sic noyis and din of rachis and bugillis, that all the bestis were rasit fra thair dennis.
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Inglismen, quhen thay com with Quene Margaret; for the samin wes noisum to al gud maneris, makand his pepil tender and effeminat.
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[820] In MS. G, "quhen God of his mercie offereth."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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[854] See, for example, his "Lament for the Makaris quhen he wes seik,"
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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We had not half dyneit quhen one comes to him from Lord Salisberie; to quhom he said,
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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Monsieur Dosell and the Capitanis receavit thairis deliverit evin be thair awin soldiouris, (for sum amongis thame war favoraris of the treuth,) quho efter the reading of thame, began to ryve thair awin beardis; for that was the modest behaveour of Monsieur Dosell, quhen treuth was told unto him, so that it repugne to his fantasie.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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God in France, evin as sche hir selff was heir persecutand in Scotland: and yit he so perished in his pryde, that all men mycht see that Godis just vengeance did stryke him, evin quhen his iniquitie was cumed to full rypenes.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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