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Quhou the
affligit lady, dame scotia
reprochit hyr thre sonnis, callit
the thre estaitis of
scotland.
Chap.
VIII.
O
ignorant abusit ande dissaitful pepil, gone
by the path vaye of verteouse knaulage, beand of
ane effemenet courage, degradit fra honour, ande
degenerit fra the nobilite, of zour foir fadirs & predecessours.
O quhat vanhap, quhat dyabolic temptatione,
quhat misire, quhat maledictione, or quhat vengeance is
this that hes succumbit zour honour,
<f57v> ande hes blyndit
zour ene, fra the perspectione of zour extreme ruuyne?
allace quhy haue ze nocht pytie of me zour natural
mother or quhy haue ze no pytie of zour selfis? allace
quhat oratour can discryue, blame, or repreue, zour
neclegens, couuardeis ande zour ingratitude? allace
quhy remembir ze nocht, that natur hes oblist zou, til
auance the salute, ande deffens of zour public veil? ande
quhat thai be (as cicero sais) that hurtis the public
veil tha deserue as grite reproche as tha hed sellit
traisonablye the realme to there enemeis: for the proditione
of ane realme succedis to the hurt of the public
veil. allace than quhy vil ze nocht haue misericord &
pytie of zour natiue cuntre, quhar that ze var engenerit
borne ande neureist, ande zour frendis and childir hes
zour sustentatione in it? allace the natiuite of ane man
suld be litil prisit, ande his lang liue dais les desirit,
quhen ther procedis na frute of his laubirs bot for his
auen singulair vtilite, ande nocht for the public veil
allace the natural loue of zour natiue cuntre suld be
inseperablye rutit in zour hartis, considerand that zour
lyuis, zour bodeis, zour habitatione, zour frendis, zour
lyuyngis, ande
<f58r> sustentan, zour hail, zour pace, your
refuge, the reste of zour eild, ande zour sepulture is in
it. than allace quhy ar ze nocht solist to deffende the
liberte ande to saue the dominione of it. i maye say
ande conferme be raisone, that al pepil ar disnaturalit
fra there gude nature, quhilkis in necessite enforsis
them nocht at there pouer, to purches & til auance the
public veil of there natiue cuntre, it beand distitut of
supple & desolat throucht grite persecutione of mortal
enemeis. for thai that vil nocht expose there bodeis
ande gudis, to perrel ande dangeir, for the iust deffens
of there honour, lyuis, frendis ande gudis: bot rather
vil thole them selfis, ther public veil, & ther natiue
cuntre, to perreis al to gyddir, thai ar mair brutal nor
brutal beystis. it aperis that the lau of nature, is mair
perfytly acompleist in brutal beystis, nor it is in zou
that professis to be natural men: for zour verkis testifeis
that ze ar mair disnaturellit, nor is brutal beystis
that hes na vndirstanding of raison. the foulis of the
ayr vil deffende ther nestis vitht there nebbis ande
feit. the beiris, lyons, voluis, foxis, and dogis, vil deffende
there cauerne & there quhelpis vitht there
<f58v> tethe &
feit. Allace this sair complaynt is to me rycht hauy,
bot the litil support that i vil get of zou is far hauyar:
for ze quhilkis suld sustene deffende ande releif me, ze
ar the aduerse party of my prosperite, for in the stede
of reuarde ande gratitude that ze ar oblist to gyf to me,
ze purches ande auancis my distructione for zour particular
veil. My ald enemeis hes persecutit me outuartly
in cruel veyris be fyir ande sourde, bot the veyr that
ze mak inuartly contrar me, be auereise & ambitione is
mair cruel. my mortal enemeis purchessis to raif my
liberte, ande to hald me in ane miserabil subiectione:
bot ze hald me in ane mair seruitude be zour disordinat
neclegens ande couuardise. my ald enemeis dois me
grite domage vitht ane grite armye of men of veyr be
see ande be land. bot ze vndir the cullour of frendschip
purchessis my final exterminatione for falt of
gude reul ande gouuernance. Ande alsa ze ar sa diuidit
amang zour selfis, that nocht ane trouis ane vthir,
for throucht the suspetione that ilk ane of zou hes of
vthirs euyrye ane of zou seikis his particular releif. for
sum of zou ar fled far vitht in the cuntre, sum of zou
ar fled to the hillis,
<f59r> ande sum of zou remanis in zoure
auen housis on the inglis mennis assurance, ande sum
of zou ar be cum neutral men, lyik to the ridars that
dueillis on the debatabil landis, of this sort ze haue run
to zour auen distructione. ande quhou be it of al thir
particular onleiful consaitis that ze haue vsit to saue
zou fra the crualte of ingland, zit the maist subtel nor
the maist dissymilit of zou al is nocht saue, for as sune
as the inglis men dreymis that ze haue failzet to them,
than thai repute zou for there mortal enemeis far mair
nor thai repute ony scottis man that vas neuyr assurit.
ande quhen ze haue fulfillit the inglis mennis desyre, &
hes helpit to distroye zour natyue cuntre, zit the inglis
men sal neuyr cal zou ane vthir vord bot renegant
scottis ande ze sal neuyr be reput bot for barbir slauis
as zour croniklis vil testifee and alse the practic of
yis present tyme makkis it manifest al the gude treittyng
that scottis men gettis in ingland changis in ane
vile seruitude.<f59v> |
