Re: Ynkhorne Terms

John Cowan wrote:

> And here's the beginning of a poem in inkhorn Scots by the
> late 15th-century poet William Dunbar:
>
>         Haile! sterne superne.  Haile! in eterne,
>         In Godis sicht to shine.
>         Lucerne in derne for to discerne
>         Be glory and grace divine.
>         Hodiern, modern, sempitern,
>         Angellical regime,
>         Our tern inferne for to dispern,
>         Helpe! rialest rosine.
>         Ave! Maria, gracia plena,
>         Haile! freshe floure feminine,
>         Yerne us, guberne, virgin matern,
>         Of reuth baith rute and rine.
Some lovely internal rhymes there!

Sally
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