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Robert Henryson Quotes

1430–1490 Scotland

Robert Henryson or Robert Henderson (c. 1430 – c. 1490) was a Scottish Chaucerian poet or makar, best known for his Morall Fabillis and The Testament of Cresseid.

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In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.

Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he neid.

The man that will nocht quhen he may
Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour,
Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour
Bot wind Inflat in uther mennis eiris.

Best thing in eird, thairfoir, I say, for me,
Is blyithnes in hart, with small possessioun.

The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,
Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.
Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,
And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.

Ane Bow that is ay bent
Worthis unsmart, and dullis on the string;
Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent,
In ernistfull thochtis, and in studying.

For to be yong I wald not, for my wis
Off all this warld to mak me lord et king:
The more of age the nerar hevynnis blis.

Lovers be war and tak gude heid about
Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine.
I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout
Quhome ye may traist to have trew lufe agane.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Henryson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.