The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2. Virgil

weit and wynd, mydlit wyth fellon haill,10

      And all the hevyn with thundyrris blast sa steir

      That all thar falloschip sall withdraw for feir.

      Enclosyt with a myst als dyrk as nycht

      Dido and eik the Troiane duke full rycht,

      Alanerly, bot be thame selvyn twane,15

      Togiddir sal entir in a cave of stane:

      Thar sal I be reddy, and, but delay,

      Gif thi mynd be ferm tharto the ilk day,

      In sovir wedlok I sal conioyn hir thar,

      To be his propir spous for euermair:20

      Apon this wys thar wedding salbe wrocht.

      Affermys all hir wil, contrarying nocht,

      Of Cetheron Venus the goddes brycht,

      Lauchyng scho fund had so controvit a slycht.

      CAP. IV.

      Quhou that the Queyn to huntyng raid at morow,

      And of the first day of hir joy and sorow.

      Furth of the sey, with this, the dawyng spryngis.

      As Phebus rays, fast to the ȝettis thringis

      The chos gallandis, and huntmen thame besyde,

      With ralys and with nettys strang and wyde,

      And huntyng sperys styf with hedis braid:5

      From Massillyne horsmen thik thiddir raid,

      With rynnyng hundis, a full huge sort.

      Nobillys of Cartage, hovand at the port,

      The Queyn awatys that lang in chawmyr dwellys:

      Hyr fers steyd stude stampyng, reddy ellys,10

      Rungeand the fomy goldyn byt gynglyng;

      Of gold and pal wrocht hys rych harnasyng:

      And scho, at last, of palyce yschit owt,

      With huge menȝe walking hir abowt,

      Lappyt in a brusyt mantill of Sydony,15

      With gold and perle the bordour al bewry,

      Hyngand by hir syde the cays with arowis grund;

      Hir bricht tressis envolupyt war and wond

      Intil a quayf of fyne gold wyrin threid;

      The goldyn button claspyt hir purpour weid:20

      And furth scho passyt with all hir cumpany.

      The Troiane pepill forgaderit by and by,

      Joly and glaid the fresch Ascanyus ȝyng.

      Bot first of all, maist gudly, hym self thar kyng

      Enee gan entir in falloschip, but dout,

      And onto thame adionyt hys large rowt.

      Lyke quhen Apollo list depart or ga

      Furth of hys wyntring realm of Lysya,

      And leif the flude Exanthus for a quhile,5

      To vissy Delos, his moderis land and ile,

      Renowand ryngis and dansys, mony a rowt;

      Mixt togiddir, hys altaris standing about,

      The pepil of Creit, and thame of Driopes,

      And eik the payntit folkis Agathirces,10

      Schowtand on thar gys with clamour and vocis hie:

      Apon thi top, mont Cynthus, walkis he,

      Hys wavand haris, sum tyme, doyng doun thryng

      With a soft garland of lawrer sweit smellyng;

      And vmquhile thame gan balmyng and enoynt,15

      And into gold addres, at full gude poynt;

      Hys grundyn dartis clattering by hys syde.

      Als fresch, als lusty dyd Eneas ryde;

      With als gret bewte in hys lordly face.

      And eftyr thai ar cummyn to the chace,20

      Amang the montanys in the wild forest,

      The rynnyng hundis of cuppillys sone thai kest,

      And our the clewys and the holtis, belyve,

      The wild beistis doun to the dail thai dryve.

      Lo! thar the rays, rynnyng swyft as fyre,25

      Drevyn from the hyghtis, brekkis out at the swyre:

      Ane othir part, syne ȝondyr mycht thou se

      The herd of hartis with thar hedis hie,

      Ourspynnerand with swyft cours the plane vaill,

      The hepe of duste vpstowryng at thair taill,30

      Fleand the hundis, levand the hie montanys.

      And Ascanyus, the child, amyd the planys,

      Joyus and blith hys startling steid to assay,

      Now makis his rynk ȝondir, and now this way

      Now prekis furth by thir, and now by thame;5

      Langyng, amang faynt frayt beistis ontame,

      The fomy bair, doun from the hyllis hycht,

      Or the dun lyoun discend, recontyr he mycht.

      In the meyn quhile, the hevynnys al about

      With fellon noys gan to rummyll and rowt.10

      A bub of weddir followyt in the tayll,

      Thik schour of rayn myddillit ful of haill.

      The Tyriane menȝe skales wydequhar,

      And al the gallandis of Troy fled heir and thar;

      And eik with thame the ȝong Ascanyus,15

      Nevo to kyng Dardan and to Venus.

      For feir, to diuers stedis throu the feildis,

      Thai seik to haldis, howsis, hyrnys and beildis:

      The ryveris rudly ruschit our hillis bedene.

      Within a cave is entrit Dido queyn,20

      And eik the Troiane duke, al thame alane,

      By aventur, as thai eschewyt the rane.

      Erth, the first moder, maid a takyn of wo,

      And eik of wedlok the pronuba Juno,

      And of thar cuplyng wittering schew the ayr:25

      The flambe of fyreslaucht lychtnyt heir and thar

      And on the hillys hie toppis, but les,

      Sat murnand nymphis, hait Oreades.

      This wes the formaste day of hir glaidnes,

      And first morrow of hir wofull distres.30

      For nother the fasson nor the maner sche

      Attendis now, nor fame, ne honeste;

      Ne, from thens furthwart, Dido ony mor

      Musis on lufe secrete, as of befor,

      Bot clepis it spousage; and, with that fayr name,5

      Clokyt and hyd hir cryme of oppyn schame.