William Dunbar

  • The True Philosophy of Life

    Modernized by Hugh Haliburton
    Full oft I muse and hes in thocht.
    THE PASSAGE of the speeding year,
    And Fortune with her changing cheer,
      Are ills on ilka hand contest;
    We will not mourn for that, my dear,
      But to be blythe we ’ll count it best....

  • Advice

    Modernized by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon

    IF ye would love and lovèd be,
    In mind keep well these thingis three,
    And sadly in thy breast imprint,—
    Be secret, true and patient!

    For he that patience can not leir,
    He shall displeasance have perquier,...