Honour all Time thy noble Genterice,

Obey the Kirk; gif thou does mifs, amend,
Sae Sall thou win a Place in Paradyce,
And mak on Eard an honnourable End.

Quod HEN. STEWART,

O N

CONSCIENS.

Q

I.

UHEN Doctors preicht to win the Joy eternal,

Into the Heavens, aftir our LORDS Afcens They Juftice taucht bot Bud or Favour carnal, And cauft be punifht fleshy vyl Offens,

Gave Benifice to Clerks of CONSCIENS; And fae the Feynd had fic Envy thereon, Away he part frae Confciens fcrape the Con

And then behind was only left Sciens.

II.

THEN were all Clerks of Sciens fune promovit,
And them that wald to Study maist apply
But zit the Feynd at Sciens was comuvit,
And gart frae Sciens fcrape away the Sci.
Sae only Ens was left by his flie Envy

Quhilk ay fuld be for Gold and Geir expont,
Quhairby Benefices are now difpont

But Gonfciens or Sciens to fell and buy.

III.

O Sovraign LORD, and maist excellent King,
Gar put the Con and Sci again to Ens,
And rule thy Realm with Justice in thy Ring;
Give Benifice to Clerks of Confciens,

With Truth and Honour to ftand thy Defense
Sae in thy Court that Confciens be clene,
For vyle Corruption or thy Days has bene,
4gainst Justice, with uthir great Offens.

Quod STEWART.

On the CREATION,
PARADYCE lost.

G

I.

OD by his Word his Wark began,

and

To form this Eard and Hevin for Man,
The Sie and Watter deip;

The Sun, and Mune and Stars fae bricht,
The Day devydit from the Nicht,
Thair Courfes just to keip;

The Beifts that on the Grund do muve,

And Fishes in the Sie;

Fowls in the Air to flie abuve,

Of ilk kind formed HE:

Sum creiping, fum fleiting,
Sum fleing in the Air,
Sae heichly, fae lichtly
In muving heir and thair.

II.

THIR Warks of gret Magnificence,

Prefytit by His Providence,

According to His Will:

Nixa He made Man; To gife him Glore,
Did with His Image him decore,
Gaif Paradyfe him till;

Into that Garden hevinly wrocht,

With Pleasures mony a one,

The Beifts of every Kynd wer brocht,
Thair Names he fuld expone;

These kenning and nameing,

As them he lift to call,

For eifing and pleifing

Of Man, fubdued them all.

III.

IN heavenly Joy Man fae poffeft,
To be alane GOD thocht not best,

Made Eve to be his Maik;

Bad them increafs and multiplie,
And of the Fruit frae every Tree

Thair Pleafure they fuld take,

Except the Tree of Gude and Ill

That in the Midft dois ftand,

Forbad that they fuld cum thertil,
Or twitch it with thair Hand;
Left luking and plucking,
Baith they and all thair Seid,
Seveirly; awfteirly,

Suld die without Remeid,

IV.

Now Adam and his lufty Wife

In Paradyce leidand thair Lyfe,
With Pleasures infineit;

Wanting nae thing fuld do them Eafe,
The Beifts obeying them to pleife,

As they could wifh in Spreit:

Behald the Serpent fullenlie

Envyand Mans Estate,

With wicket Craft and Subtiltie

Eve temptit with Defait;
Nocht feiring, but fpeiring,
Quhy fcho tuke not her till,
In ufing and chufing

The Fruit of Gude and III?

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