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

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СКАЧАТЬ on the grond, mylk quhite, al quhite brodmell

      About hir pappis sowkyng, thar, I the tell,10

      Is the richt place and sted for ȝour cite,

      And of ȝour travell ferm hald to rest in le.

      Nor the nedis nocht to gruch, in tyme tocum,

      The rungyng of ȝour tabillis euery crum:

      Destany sal fynd tharfor a ganand way,15

      And Phebus sal ȝou help, quhen ȝe list pray.

      Bot ombyschew this cost of Italy

      Quhilk nixt onto our bordouris ȝhe se ly,

      Bedyit with flowyng of our seys flude,

      Sen al tha citeis with wykkit Grekis, not gude,20

      Inhabit ar; for the Naricyanys,

      Othir wys nemmyt Locry, thar remanys,

      Quhilk come with Aiax Oylus to the fecht;

      And, neir the hill that Salentynus hecht,

      The feildis all ar occupyit full meit25

      Be Idomeneus the kyng expellit from Crete;

      Thar is alsso the litil cite, but les,

      Of the Duke of Melyboy, Phyloctetes,

      Clepit Petilya, closyt with a wall:

      Eschew thir citeis and thyr costis all.30

      Forthir, quhen that beȝond the sey sall stand

      All thi navy, and thar apon the strand

      Settis vp ane altare thi sacrifyce to ȝeild,

      Thyne haris with a purpur vail ourheild,

      Les than amyd the godly fyris, per cace,5

      Thi ennemeis mycht occur, and knaw thi face,

      And so perturbyng all thi sacrifyce:

      Thou caws thi feris keip the samyn gys

      In thar oblacionys, and this vsage condyng;

      Observe, thi self and thi chaist ofspring,10

      Every serimony of our religioun.

      And, fra the wynd haith set thi cours adoun

      From Itale towart the cost of Sycilly,

      And the strait sowndis of the mont Pelory

      Vanysys away peys and peys, than the land15

      Strekis all tyme towart the left hand,

      And the left syde lang salt thou, but dowt,

      Cyrkil, and sail mony seys about:

      On the richt syde the cost and wallis evaid;

      For tha partis vmquhile, as it is sayd,20

      Be fors of storm war in sondir ryfe,

      And a huge deip gat thar holkit belyfe.

      Behald quhat change and sa onkouth a kast

      May be mysknaw, throw tymys lang bipast;

      For, quhen that baith tha landis war al ane,25

      The seys rage draif in, and maid thame twane,

      And fors of streym from the syde of Itale

      The ile of Sycill devydit hes al haill;

      Ane narow fyrth flowis, baith evyn and morn,

      Betwix tha costis and citeis in sondir schorn.30

      The rycht syde tharof with Scilla ombeset is,

      And the left with insaciabil Carybdys;

      Quhar, in hir bowkit bysme, that hellys belch

      The large fludis suppys thrys in a swelch,

      And othir quhilis spowtis in the ayr agane,5

      Dryvand the stowr to the starnys, as it war rane.

      Bot Scilla lurkand in darn hyddyllis lyis,

      Within hir cave, spredand hyr mouth feil syis

      To sowk the schippis amang rolkis onsure.

      Lyke to a woman hir ovyr portrature,10

      A fair virgynys body doun to hir scheir;

      Bot hir hynd partis ar als gret, weil neir,

      As beyn a hydduus huddon, or a quhaill,

      Quharto beyn cuppillit mony meyrswyne taill,

      With empty mawys of wolfis ravenus:15

      Eschew, tharfor, this passage dangerus;

      For bettir is thou seik the cost about

      Of Pachynus in Scycill, than stand in dout,

      And turn thi cowrs on bawburd, a weil far way,

      Than anys tobe into sa hard assay20

      As forto se the vgly monstre fell,

      Scilla, and heir the craggis rowt and ȝell

      For barking of sey doggis in hir wame.

      And mair atour, gif owthir wit, or fame,

      Or traist may be geif Helenus the prophete,25

      Or gif with verite Phebus inspiris hys sprete,

      This a thing, son of the goddes, I the tech,

      Abuf al othir, this a thyng I the prech,

      And principaly repetis the sam agane,

      And seir tymys monysis heir in plane;30

      First of Juno thou wirschip the gret mycht,

      And glaidly hallow with sacrifice al at rycht

      The power of Juno, and that mychty prynces

      To ples lawly with offerandis the addres:

      And on sik wys quhen thou hir favouris hes get,5

      And hest alsso thi cours from Sycil set

      Towart the boundis of Italy СКАЧАТЬ