Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH BORDER. 181
the poems are as different in appearance, as if the older tale
had been regularly and systematically modernized by a poet
of the present day.
Inc'iplt Proj)hcsia Thonice de Ersddoun.
In a lande as I was lent.
In the gryking of the day,
Ay alone as I went.
In Huntle bankys me for to play :
I saw the throstyl, and the jay.
Ye niawes movyde of her song,
Ye wodwale sange notes gay.
That all the wod about range.
In that longyng as I lay,
Undir nethe a dern tre,
1 was war of a lady gay,
Come rydyng ouyr a fair le ;
Zogh I suld sitt to domysday,
With my tong to wrabbe and wry,
Certenly all hyr aray,
It beth neuyer discryuyd for me.
Hyr palfra was dappyll gray,
Sycke on say neuer none,
As the son in somers day,
All abowte that lady shone.
Hyr sadyl was of a rewel bone,
A semly syght it was to se,
Bryht with mony a precyous stone,
And compasyd all with crapste ;
Stones of oryens gret plente.
Her hair about her hede it hang,
She rode ouer the farnyle.
A whUe she blew, a while she sang.
Her girths of nobil silke they were.
Her boculs were of beryl stone,
Sadyll and brydil war - - :
With sylk and sendel about bedone,
Hyr patreyl was of a pall fyne,