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As to the text accordyng never a deill,
Mair than langis to the cart the fift quheill.

Gavin Douglas

Woddis, forrestis, with nakyt bewis blowt,
Stude strippyt of thar weid in every howt.
So bustuusly Boreas his bugill blew,
The deyr full dern doun in the dalis drew;
Smale byrdis, flokkand throu thik ronys thrang,
In chyrmyng and with cheping changit thar sang,
Sekand hidlis and hyrnys thame to hyde
Fra feirfull thuddis of the tempestuus tyde.

Gavin Douglas

Bot a sentens to follow may suffice me:
Sum tyme I follow the text als neir I may,
Sum tyme I am constrenyt ane other way.

Gavin Douglas

And all small fowlys singis on the spray:
Welcum the lord of lycht and lamp of day.

Gavin Douglas

And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray:
Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day.

Gavin Douglas

Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune,
And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune.

Gavin Douglas

It is richt facil and eith gait, I the tell,
Forto discend and pas on down to hell:
The blak gettis of Pluto, and that dirk way,
Standis evir oppin and patent nycht and day;
Bot tharfra to return agane on hyght,
And heir abufe recovir this aris licht,
That is difficil wark, thar lawbour lyis.

Gavin Douglas

Gavin Douglas

Gavin Douglas

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Born: 1474

Died: 1522 (aged 48)

Bio: Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld was a Scottish Chaucerian poet or makar. His Eneados, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, was the first complete rendering of any major work of classical antiquity into English.

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