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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.

— Robert Henryson

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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.

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