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,
Though he had all this worldis rent:
Be secret, true and patient!
For who that...
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.
Fast as this warld fleets awa’
As fast her wheel does Fortune ca’,
At no...
