"Storys to rede ar delatibill Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill, Than suld storys that suthfast wer And thai war sa…"

"A! Fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mays man to haiff liking. Fredome all solace to man giffis, He levys at es that …"

"Na he that ay has levyt fre May nocht knaw weill the propyrte The angyr na the wrechyt dome That is couplyt to foule …"

"Luff is off sa mekill mycht, That it all paynys makis lych."

"Thai eyt it with full gud will That soucht na nother sals thar-till Bot appetyt."

"Na thar may na man fyr sa covyr Than low or rek sall it discovyr."

"Men suld mak mirrie quhill thay mocht."

"Perhaps the editor may be accused of nationality, when he says, that, taking the total merits of this work together, …"

"Scottish literature begins effectively with Archdeacon Barbour's Bruce some sixty years after Bannockburn, and to the…"

"The Bruce, with which the Scottish contribution to English literature begins, long held its place as the national epi…"