03.01.2011, 10:51
John Stewart of Baldynneis
ca. 1550 - 1605
Fresche fontane fair and springand cald and cleine
As brychtest christall cleir with silver ground,
Close cled about be holsum herbis greine,
Quhois twynkling streames yeilds ane luiflie sound;
With bonie birkis all ubumbrat round
From violence of Pfebus visage fair,
Quhois smelling leifs suave Zephir maks rebound
In doucest souching of his temperat air;
And Titan new hich flammyng in his chair
Maks gaggit erth for ardent heit to brist.
Than passinger, quho irkit dois repair,
Brynt be the son and dryit up with thirst,
Heir in this place thou may refreschment find
Both be the well, the schaddow and the wind.
ca. 1550 - 1605
Fresche fontane fair and springand cald and cleine
As brychtest christall cleir with silver ground,
Close cled about be holsum herbis greine,
Quhois twynkling streames yeilds ane luiflie sound;
With bonie birkis all ubumbrat round
From violence of Pfebus visage fair,
Quhois smelling leifs suave Zephir maks rebound
In doucest souching of his temperat air;
And Titan new hich flammyng in his chair
Maks gaggit erth for ardent heit to brist.
Than passinger, quho irkit dois repair,
Brynt be the son and dryit up with thirst,
Heir in this place thou may refreschment find
Both be the well, the schaddow and the wind.