The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2. Virgil

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СКАЧАТЬ storys euery deill,10

      Realmys and landis, quharof I haue na feill

      Bot as I follow Virgill in sentens;

      Few knawis all thir costis sa far hens;

      To pike thame vp perchance ȝour eyn suld reill:

      Thus aucht thar nane blame me for smal offens.15

      By strange channellis, fronteris, and forlandis,

      Onkouth costis, and mony wilsum strandis

      Now goith our barge, for nowder howk nor craik

      May heir bruke sail, for schald bankis and sandis.

      From Harpyes fell, and blynd Cyclopes handis,20

      Be my laid star, virgyne moder, but maik;

      Thocht storm of temptatioun my schip oft schaik.

      Fra swelth of Sylla, and dyrk Caribdis bandis,

      I meyn from hell, salue al go not to wraik.

THE THRYD BUKE OF ENEADOS.

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      CAP. I.

      Quhou Eneas fra Troy has tane hys rays,

      And Polidorus graf has fund in Trace.

      Eftyr that seyn and thocht expedient

      Was by the goddys to dystroy and schent

      Of Asya the empyre, and down to bryng,

      But offens, Priamus pepil and ofspryng,

      And prowd Ilion was brokyn and bet down,5

      And from the soyl al Troy, Neptunus town,

      Ybrynt in smoke of flambis and in reik;

      Syndry landis and cuntreis forto seik,

      And wend exile in diuers nationys,

      Of the goddis by reuelacionys,10

      We war admonyst feil syth, as is said.

      Schippis we graith, and navy reddy maid,

      Betwix Anthandros and the mont of Ida,

      Oncertane quhidder the fatis wald we suld ga,

      Or quhar we suld remane ȝit fynaly;15

      Our men togidder gadderit we in hy.

      And skant begunnyn was the fresch veir,

      Quhen that Anchises, myne awyn fader deir,

      Bad ws mak sail and follow destany.

      Than, weping sayr, my native cost left I,

      The havynnys, and the feildis dissolait5

      Quhar Troys ryall cite stude of lait:

      Furth sail I banyst throw the deip see,

      With my ȝong son Ascanyus and our menȝe,

      And with our frendly goddis, Penates hait,

      And eik our gret Goddis of mair estait.10

      Thar lyis a weirly cuntre weil far thens,

      With large feildis lauborit ful of fens;

      Of Trace the pepill ar thar inhabityng,

      Quhar that vmquhile strang Lycurgus was kyng:

      Ane ancyant and ane tendir herbry place15

      To Troianys, quhil we stude in fortonys grace,

      Our pepil togidder confederate and aly.

      By schip thiddir, our sey, careit was I,

      Quhar, at the bayand costis syde of the see,

      Begouth I first set wallis of a cite,20

      Althocht my foundment was mysfortunat:

      The towne I nemmyt efter myne estait,

      And fra my name it clepit Eneadas.

      Onto my moder, of Dyona douchter was,

      Sacrifice I maid, and to the goddis all25

      Quham for new warkis men happy helparis call;

      And to the kyng of hevinly wightis, that tyde,

      A quhite bull slew I by the costis syde.

      On cace, thar stude a litil mote neir by,

      Quhar hepthorn buskis on the top grew hie,30

      And evin saplynnys of myrthus, the tre funerale.

      Thiddir I went, greyn bewis doune to haill,

      Hard by the grond myne altare forto dycht

      With burgyonys and with branchis al at rycht:

      A grysly takyn, feirful to tell, I se.5

      As from the soyll vprent was the first tre

      By the rutys, the blak droppis of blude

      Distillit tharfra, that al the erth quhar it stude

      Was spottit of the fylth, and stenyt, allaik!

      The cald dreid maid all my membris quaik,10

      And for effeir my blude togidder fresyt.

      Ane other smal twyst of a tre I chesit

      Forto brek down, the causys to assay

      Of this mater, that war onknawyn alway;

      And ȝit the blude followit on the sam maneir15

      Furth of the bark of that other, but weir.

      Than in my mynd of mony thingis I musyt,

      And to the goddessis of wildyrnes, as is vsyt,

      Quhilk Hamadriades hait, I wirschip maid;

      Onto Gradyus fader, that ryngnys glaid20

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