The Garmount Of Gud Ladies
Wald
my
gud
lady
lufe
me
best
And
wirk
eftir
my
will,
I
suld
ane
garmond
gudliest
Gar
mak
hir
body
till.
Of
he
honour
suld
be
hir
hud
Upoun
hir
heid
to
weir.
Garneist
with
govirnance
so
gud,
Na
demyng
suld
hir
deir.
Hir
sark
suld
be
hir
body
nixt
Of
chestetie
so
quhyt
With
schame
and
dreid
togidder
mixt,
The
same
suld
be
perfyt.
Hir
kirtill
suld
be
of
clene
constance
Lasit
with
lesum
lufe,
The
mailyeis
of
continuance
For
nevir
to
remufe.
Hir
gown
suld
be
of
gudlines
Weill
ribband
with
renowne
Purfillit
with
plesour
in
ilk
place,
Furrit
with
fyne
fassoun.
Hir
belt
suld
be
of
benignitie
Abowt
hir
middill
meit,
Hir
mantill
of
humilitie
To
tholl
bayth
wind
and
weit.
Hir
hat
suld
be
of
fair
having
And
hir
tepat
of
trewth,
Hir
patelet
of
gud
pansing,
Hir
hals
ribbane
of
rewth.
Hir
slevis
suld
be
of
esperance
To
keip
hir
fra
dispair,
Hir
gluvis
of
gud
govirnance
To
hyd
hir
fynyearis
fair.
Hir
schone
suld
be
of
sickernes
In
syne
that
scho
nocht
slyd
Hir
hois
of
honestie,
I
ges,
I
suld
for
hir
provyd.
Wald
scho
put
on
this
garmond
gay,
I
durst
sweir
by
my
seill
That
scho
woir
nevir
grene
nor
gray
That
set
hir
half
so
weill.
Robert Henryson
RoBERT HENRYSON, thc charming fabulist, Chaucer's aptest and brightest schoiar, aimost nothing is known. David Laing conjectures him to have been born about 1425, to have been educated at some foreign university, and to have died towards the ciosing years of the fifteenth century. It is certain that in 1462, being then * in Artibus Liceniiatus et in Decretis Bacchaiarius,' he was incorporated of the University of Glasgow; and that he was afterwards schooimaster in Dunferraline, and worked there as a notary-pubiic aiso.