The Argument.
The Douglase coureteslye Requirs the King
For to vnfold the caus of al his Greif
Wherby he taks Occasion for to bring
To outward vew the ground of this mischeif
He schews the worthles Bate’els haples Reigne
That heapt new woes on woes without releif
Braue barwick, Lost Scots fall at ods and yeeld,
Losing Their fredome, in a bloodie feild.
Those machles champions throw the forest gon
At last allight, & then themselues adrest,
Til cheirful daies bright golde lamp should shone,
within a arbour faier, to take their rest.
But as ambitious minds, ar neuer alone,
Til they haue honour, glorie, Fame possest,
So they no rest at all, cold here attain,
Such high confusion in their brests remaine.
At last, the Douglas thus began, braue Prince,
And my most gratious Souerainge quod he,
Long may thou liue in Natures excelence,
Iou’s loue, Fates fauour, fortunes constancie,
Thy worth exalted, by heauens influence,
And thy braue selfe, long haue I wsht to sie,
God graunt thy shining sonne with golden Raies,
Our darkest nights may chaunge to brightest daies.
Let not my bold presumtion thee offend
If I require to know the woefull birth,
Of sorrows which thy countenance forth send,
For loe swift Fame, did sound thy praise, thy worth
In Fraunce, while carelesse, I on court attend,
which cleers my clouds of care, with lamps of mirth,
And did my sad, vnsetled, Thoughts, destroy
Thy sweit report, so fild, my Eares, with Ioy
Then I returnd in hope of blest reliefe,
Which I foresawe, thy worth would soone afford,
And thou, eu’ne thou, would ease thy contreis griefe,
Whose glor
(Patrick Gordon)
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