Love

The Squyeris Adew

by Sir David Lyndsay c. 1486–1555

From Abbotsford Series: Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century (1892)

Love

Fair weill, ye lemant lampis of lustines
Of fair Scotland, adew my Ladies all!
During my youth with ardent besines,
Ye knaw how I was in your service thrall.
Ten thowsand times adew above thame all
Sterne of Stratherne, my Ladie Soverane!
For quhome I sched my blud with mekill pane.

Yit wald my Ladie luke at evin and morrow
On my legend, at length scho wald not mis
How for hir saik I sufferit mekill sorrow.
Yit give I micht at this time get my wis,
Of hir sweit mouth, deir God, I had ane kis.
I wis in vane, allace we will dissever,
I say na mair, Sweit hart, adew for ever!

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From "The Testament of Squyer Meldrum" (the last stanzas).

MLA

Lyndsay, David. “The Squyeris Adew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lyndsay/5/.

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Lyndsay, David. “The Squyeris Adew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lyndsay/5/.

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