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O DE

ON THE FIFTH OF

DECEMBER,

Being the BIRTH-DAY of a very beautiful YOUNG LADY.

BY MR.

CHRISTOPHER

I.

SMART.

WAIL eldest of the monthly train,

Hire of the winter drear,

DECEMBER, in whose iron reign
Expires the chequer'd year:

Hush all the bluft'ring blafts that blow,
And proudly plum'd in filver fnow
Smile gladly on this bleft of days;
The livery'd clouds fhall on thee wait,
And PHOEBUS fhine in all his ftate,
With more than fummer rays.
II.

Tho' jocund JUNE may juftly boast
Long days and happy hours;
Tho' AUGUST be POMONA's hoft.

And MAY be crown'd with flow'rs;

Tell JUNE his fire and crimson dyes
By HARRIOT's blufh, and HARRIOT's eyes
Eclips'd and vanquifh'd fade away;
Tell AUGUST, thou canft let him fee
A richer, riper fruit than He,

A fweeter flow'r than MAY.

PART OF THE

PROLOGUE

TO

SIR DAVID LYNDESAY'S DREAM.

WRITTEN IN THE REIGN OF KING JAMES V.

I.

IN the kalendies of Januarie,

When fresche PHOEBUS by moving circulair From Capricorn was enter'd in Aquarie, With blafcis that the branches made full bare, The fnow and fleet perturbit all the air, And flemit FLORA from everie bank and bus, Throuch fupport of the aufteir Eolus.

II.

Efter that I the lang wynteris night

Had lyne waking in my bed allone

Throw hevy thought, that na way fleep I micht, Remembering of divers thingis gone;

Sa up I rois, and cleithit me anone

By this fair Titan with his lemis licht

O'er all the land had fpred his banner bricht.

III.

With cloke and hude I dreffit me belive,
With dowbill schone, and myttains on my handis,
Howbeit the air was richt penetratyve,

Zet fure I forth lanfing outhort the landis,
Towards the fea, to schort me on the fandis
Because unblomit was baith bank and bray,
And fa as I was paffing by the way,

IV.

I met dame FLORA in dule weid disagyfit,
Quilk into May was dulce and delectabill,
With ftalwart ftormis hir fweetness was furprifit,
Hir heavinlie hewis war turnit into fabill,
Quilkis umguile war to Luffaris amiabill,
Fled from the froist, the tender flouris I faw
Under dame Nature's mantill lurking law.

V.

The fmall fowlis in flockis faw I flee
To nature makand lamentatioun,

They lichtit down befide me on ane tree,
Of thair complaint I had compaffioun,
And with ane piteous exclamation

They faid "blyffit be fomer with his flouris,

And waryit be thou wynter with thy fchowris.

VI.

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"Allace AURORE, (the fillie lark did cry)` Quhair has thou left thy balmy liquour fweit, "That us rejoifit mounting in the sky?

"Thy filver dropps are turned into fleit. "Of fair PHEBUS quhair is the holfum heit, "Quhy tholis thow thy hevinlie plefand face, "With myftie vapouris to be obfcurit, allace!

VII.

Quhair art thou May, with June thy fifter fchene "Weill bordourit with dafeis of delyte?

"And gentill Julie, with thy mantill grene, "Enamelit with rofis reid and quhyte ? "Now auld and cauld Januar in dispyte "Reiffis from us all pastime and plesure Allace! quhait gentle hart may this indure?

VIII.

"Ovirfilit ar with cloudis odious

"The goldin fkyis of the orient,

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HARDY K NUTE

FRAGMENT.

STA

I.

TATELY ftept he east the wa,
And stately stept he weft,

Full seventy zeirs he now had fene,
With fkerfs fevin zeirs of reft.
He livit quhen Britons breach of faith
Wroucht Scotland meikle wae.

And ay his fword told to their cost,
He was their deidly fae.

II.

Hie on a hill his caftle ftude,
With halls and touris a hicht,
And guidly chambers fair to fe,
Quair he lodgit móny a knicht.
His Dame fa peirlefs anes and fair,

For chaft and bewtie deimt,
Nae marrow had in all the land,

Saif ELENOR the queen.

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