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"For to be yong I wald not, for my wis Off all this warld to mak me lord et king: The more of age the nerar hevynnis blis."
Robert HenrysonThe nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, — Robert Henryson
"The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch, And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill."
Robert Henryson
Robert Henryson
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Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities. Little is known of his life, but evidence suggests that he was a teacher who had training in law an
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"In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte."
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"Than upon him scho kest up baith hir Ene, And with ane blenk it come into his thocht, That he sumtime hir face befoir had sene. Bot scho was in sic plye he knew hir nocht, Yit than hir luik into his mynd it brocht The sweit visage and amorous blenking Of fair Cresseid sumtyme his awin darling."
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"Ane Bow that is ay bent Worthis unsmart, and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent, In ernistfull thochtis, and in studying."
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"Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he neid."
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"Best thing in eird, thairfoir, I say, for me, Is blyithnes in hart, with small possessioun."
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