Note 855 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 8)
Reading edition
Beginning of the "Thrissil and the Rois" (to be compared with the opening of the "Canterbury Tales"):
Quhen March wes with variand windis past, And Appryl had, with his silver schouris, Tane leif at Nature with ane orient blast, And lusty May, that muddir is of flouris, Had maid the birdis to begyn their houris Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt, Quhois armony to heir it was delyt....