1.1Laude, honor, prasingis, thankis infynite1.2To the, and thi dulce ornate fresch endite,1.3Mast reverend Virgill, of Latyne poetis prince,1.4Gemme of ingine and fluide of eloquence,1.5Thow peirles perle, patroun of poetrie,1.6Rois, register, palme, laurer, and glory,1.7Chosin cherbukle, cheif flour and cedir tree,1.8Lanterne, leidsterne, mirrour, and a per se,1.9Master of masteris, sweit sours and springand well,1.10Wyde quhar our all ringis thi hevinle bell:1.11I mene thi crafty werkis curious,1.12Sa quik, lusty, and mast sentencious,1.13Plesable, perfyte, and felable in all degre,1.14As quha the mater held to foir thar ee;1.15In every volume quhilk the list do write,1.16Surmonting fer all uther maneir endite,1.17Lyk as the rois in June with hir sueit smell1.18The marygulde or dasy doith excell.1.19Quhy suld I than, with dull forhede and vane,1.20With ruide engine and barrand emptive brane,1.21With bad harsk speche and lewit barbour tong,1.22Presume to write quhar thi sueit bell is rong,1.23Or contirfait sa precious wourdis deir?1.24Na, na, nocht sua, bot knele quhen I thame heir.1.25For quhat compair betuix midday and nycht,1.26Or quhat compare betuix myrknes and lycht,1.27Or quhat compare is betuix blak and quhyte,1.28Far gretar diference betuix my blunt endyte1.29And thi scharp sugurat sang Virgiliane,1.30Sa wyslie wrocht with nevir ane word in vane;1.31My waverand wit, my cunnyng feble at all,1.32My mynd mysty, thir ma nocht myss ane fall.1.33Stra for this ignorant blabring imperfyte1.34Beside thi polyte termis redemyte;1.35And no the les with support and correctioun,1.36For naturall luife and freindfull affectioun1.37Quhilkis I beir to thi werkis and endyte,1.38Althocht, God wait, I knaw tharin full lyte,1.39And that thi facund sentence mycht be song1.40In our langage als weill as Latyne tong..1.41Alswele, na, na, impossible war,per de,1.42Yit with your leif, Virgill, to follow the,1.43I wald into my rurale vulgar gros,1.44Write sum savoring of thi Eneados.1.45Bot sair I drede for to distene the quyte,1.46Throu my corruptit cadens imperfyte;1.47Distene the, na forsuith, that ma I nocht,1.48Weill ma I schaw my burell busteous thocht;1.49Bot thi work sall enduire in laude and glory,1.50Bot spot or falt, conding eterne memory.1.51Thocht I offend, onhermit is thine fame,1.52Thyne is the thank, and myne sal be the shame.
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THE FIRST BUIK OF ENEADOS CAP. IIAddressis to rehers Troys rwyne.
2.1 Thai ceissit all at anis incontinent,2.2With mowthis clois, and visage takand tent.2.3Prince Eneas, frome the hie bed, with that,2.4Into his seige riall quhar he sat,2.5Begouth and said: Thi desyir, lady, is2.6Renewing of ontellable sorow, I wis,2.7To schaw how Grekis did spuilye and destroy2.8The greit riches and lamentable realm of Troy,2.9And huge misery quhilk I thair beheld,2.10Quharof myself ane greit part bair and feld;2.11Quhat Marmidon, or Gregion Dolopes,2.12Or knycht wageor to cruell Ulixes,2.13Sic materes to rehers, or yit to heir,2.14Mycht thaime contene fra weping mony ane teir?2.15And now the hevin ourquhelmis the donk nycht,2.16Quhen the declining of the sternis brycht2.17To sleip and rest perswades our appetite;2.18But sen thou hes sic plesour and delite2.19To knaw our chance, and fall of Troy in weir,2.20And schortlie the last end thairof wald heir,2.21Albeit my spreit abhorris, and doth grise2.22Thairon for to ramembir, and oft sise2.23Murnand eschewis thairfra with greit diseis,2.24Yit than I sall begyne yow for to pleis.
Finis Libri Primi.
