O DE ON THE FIFTH OF DECEMBER, Being the BIRTH-DAY of a very beautiful YOUNG LADY. BY MR. CHRISTOPHER I. SMART. WAIL eldest of the monthly train, Hire of the winter drear, DECEMBER, in whose iron reign Hush all the bluft'ring blafts that blow, Tho' jocund JUNE may juftly boast And MAY be crown'd with flow'rs; Tell JUNE his fire and crimson dyes A fweeter flow'r than MAY. PART OF THE PROLOGUE TO SIR DAVID LYNDESAY'S DREAM. WRITTEN IN THE REIGN OF KING JAMES V. I. IN the kalendies of Januarie, When fresche PHOEBUS by moving circulair From Capricorn was enter'd in Aquarie, With blafcis that the branches made full bare, The fnow and fleet perturbit all the air, And flemit FLORA from everie bank and bus, Throuch fupport of the aufteir Eolus. II. Efter that I the lang wynteris night Had lyne waking in my bed allone Throw hevy thought, that na way fleep I micht, Remembering of divers thingis gone; Sa up I rois, and cleithit me anone By this fair Titan with his lemis licht O'er all the land had fpred his banner bricht. III. With cloke and hude I dreffit me belive, Zet fure I forth lanfing outhort the landis, IV. I met dame FLORA in dule weid disagyfit, V. The fmall fowlis in flockis faw I flee They lichtit down befide me on ane tree, They faid "blyffit be fomer with his flouris, And waryit be thou wynter with thy fchowris. VI. 66 "Allace AURORE, (the fillie lark did cry)` Quhair has thou left thy balmy liquour fweit, "That us rejoifit mounting in the sky? "Thy filver dropps are turned into fleit. "Of fair PHEBUS quhair is the holfum heit, "Quhy tholis thow thy hevinlie plefand face, "With myftie vapouris to be obfcurit, allace! VII. Quhair art thou May, with June thy fifter fchene "Weill bordourit with dafeis of delyte? "And gentill Julie, with thy mantill grene, "Enamelit with rofis reid and quhyte ? "Now auld and cauld Januar in dispyte "Reiffis from us all pastime and plesure Allace! quhait gentle hart may this indure? VIII. "Ovirfilit ar with cloudis odious "The goldin fkyis of the orient, Changeing in forrow our fing melodious, Quhilk we had wont to fing with gude intent, "Refoundand to the hevinnis firmament, "But now our day is changed into the nicht," With that they rofe and flew forth of ficht. my HARDY K NUTE FRAGMENT. STA I. TATELY ftept he east the wa, Full seventy zeirs he now had fene, And ay his fword told to their cost, II. Hie on a hill his caftle ftude, For chaft and bewtie deimt, Saif ELENOR the queen. ! |