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  • Scots is the medium of most of the translations as well as of the original poems in the collection: a passage from Dante's La Vita Nuova is rendered in a quasi-mediaeval register:Ae time that I our flownrie life appraisit and saw hou brief and bruckil its duratioun, i ma hert, whaurin he wones, Luve sabbit sairlie, and wi Luve's sabban then my saul was frazit, sae that I sychit and spak in conturbatioun:

    languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY. 2004

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