The ballade of ane right noble victorius & myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Aubigny erle of Beaumont ... be Maistir Willyam Dunbar .... Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A20968 of text S114708 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 7347). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A20968 STC 7347 ESTC S114708 99849931 99849931 15105 2240854588

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A20968) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 15105) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1270:05) The ballade of ane right noble victorius & myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Aubigny erle of Beaumont ... be Maistir Willyam Dunbar .... Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520? [4+] leaves H. Chepman and A. Myllar, [Edinburgh : 1508] Gathering is 6?--STC. In verse. Suggested imprint and publication date from STC. Device of H. Chepman below title (McKerrow, 29) and device of A. Myllar (McKerrow, 22) on the recto of leaf 4. Identified as STC 7347a on UMI microfilm. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng eebo The ballade of ane right noble victorius & myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Aubigny erle of Beaumont ... be Maistir Willyam Dunbar .... Dunbar, William 1508 7 760 43 0 0 0 0 0 565.79 F The rate of 565.79 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2002-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-07 Sampled and proofread 2002-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

The ballade of ane right noble victorius & myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Ausigny 〈◊〉 of ●eans 〈…〉 king of france knyght of hie 〈◊〉 Capitan● of the 〈◊〉 of his body 〈…〉 general of the same Comp●●● 〈…〉 at the said 〈…〉 to Edinburghe in Scotland send in ane tyght exce●●●t 〈…〉 fra the said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 king to our mai●● Souuerane l●●d and victorius prince James the ferde kyng of Scottis .

Walterus chepman

REnownit ryall right reuerend and Serene Lord hie try winphing in wirschip and valoure Fro kyngis downe most cristin knight and ●ene Most wyse most valyand moste laurent hie wictour On to the sterns vpbeyt is thyne honour In Scotland welcumbe thyne Excellence To king queyne lord clerk knight and seruatour . Withe glorie and honour lawde and reuerence Welcum in flour most strong incomparable knight . The fame of armys and ●oure of vassalage Welcum in were moste worthi wyse and wight Welcum the soun of Mars of moste curage Welcum moste lush branche of our linnage In euery realme oure scheild and our defence Welcum our tendir blude of hie parage With glorie and honour lawde and reuerence Welcum in were the secund sulius The prince of knightheyd and flour of cheualry Welcum most valycant and victorius . Welcum invincible victour moste wourthy Welcum our Scottis chiftane most dughti Wyth sowne of clarioun organe song and sence To the atoms lord welcum all we cry With glorie and honour lawde and reucrence Welcum oure indeficient adiutorie That 〈…〉 heipit in thare neyd That neuer said scot yit indigent nor sory 〈◊〉 thou did hym suport with thi gud deid Welcum therfor abute all livand leyd Withe vs to liue and to maik recidence Quhilk neuer sall sw●ye for thi s●●k to bleid . To quham be honour lawde and reuerence Is none of scotland borne fathfull and kynde Bot he of naturall inclinacioune Dois favour the withe all his hert and mynde Withe fervent tendir trew intencioun And wald of inwarthie effectioun . But dreyd of danger de in thi defence Or dethe or schame war done to thi persoun To quham be honour lawde and reuerence Welcum thow knight moste fortunable in feild . Welcum in a●mis moste aunterus and ablem . Wndir the soun̄ that beris helme or scheild Welcum ●how campioun in feght wnourcnablē Welcum most dughti digne and honorablē And 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and hie magnifecence Nixt wndir kingis to stand incou●pable To quham be honour lawde and reuerence Throw Scotland ingland france and lumbardy Fleys on weyng thi fame and thi renoune And our all cuntreis wndirnethe the sky And our all strandis 〈◊〉 the sterris doune In euery province land and regioun̄ Proclai mt is thi name of excellence . In euery Cete village and in toune Withe gloire and honour lawd and reuerence O feyrse Achili in furtus hie curage O strong invincible Hector vnder scheild O valyeant arthur in knyghtli vassalage Agamemnon in gouernace of feild Bold Hennitball in batall to do beild Iulius in ●●pert in wisdom and expence Most fortunable chiftane bothe in yhouth & eild To the behonour lawde and reuerence At parlament thow suld be hye renown●● That did so mony victoryle opteyn Thi cristall helme withe lawry 〈…〉 wnye And in the hand a branche of olyve greyn The lueird of conquis and of knyghteid keyn Be borne sulo highe before the in presence To represent sicman as thou has beyn With glorie and honour lawde & reuerence Hie furius mars the god Arm 〈…〉 Rong in the 〈◊〉 at thyne natnut●e Saturnus doeme with fyryeyn did blent Throw bludy 〈…〉 manasing to garde On the fresche wenus 〈◊〉 hir amourouse 〈◊〉 On the Marcurius furtheyet his eloquence Fortuna maior did turn hir face on the Wyth glorie and honour lawde and reuerence Prynce of fredom And flour of gentilnes Sweyrd of knightheid and choise of cheualry This tyme Ilefe for grete p●…lixunes To tell quhat feildis thow wan●u pik●●rdy In france in bertan in naplis and lumbardy As I think estir withe all my diligence Or thow departe at lenthe for to d●●cry With glorie and honour lawd and reuerence B in thi name betaknis batalrus A ablem in feild R right renoune most hie N nobilnes and A for annterus R ryall blude for dughtines is D W valycantnes S for strenewite Quhoise knyghtli name so schynyng in cle●●ence For wourthines in gold suld 〈◊〉 be With glorie and honour lawd and reuerence

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