"Fyrst I protest, beaw schirris, by зour leif Beis weill avisit my wark or зhe reprief; Consider it warly, reid oftar …"

"Bot a sentens to follow may suffice me: Sum tyme I follow the text als neir I may, Sum tyme I am constrenyt ane other…"

"The battellis and the man I will discriue, Fra Troyis boundis first that fugitiue By fate to Italie come and coist la…"

"It is richt facil and eith gait, I the tell, Forto discend and pas on down to hell: The blak gettis of Pluto, and tha…"

"Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune, And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune."

"Woddis, forrestis, with nakyt bewis blowt, Stude strippyt of thar weid in every howt. So bustuusly Boreas his bugill …"

"Dame naturis menstralis."

"And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray: Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day."

"As to the text accordyng never a deill, Mair than langis to the cart the fift quheill."

"Gavin Douglas, set on a particular labour, with his mind full of Latin quantitative metre, attains a robuster versifi…"