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gösta langenfelt
Av nedan givet utdrag ur Barbour citerar Wyntoun passagen från
raden med punkter till raden, som börjar »For lit ill enchesoune or
than nane» och slutar i stället: »De dömde ofta orättvist och riddare
As hors, or hund, or othir thing,
With rycht or wrang It have wald thai
And gyf ony wald thaim withsay,
Thai suld swa do, that thai suld tyne
Othir land or lyff, or leyff in pyne.
For thai dempt thaim eftir thar will,
Takand na kep to rycht na skill.
A! quhat thai dempt thaim felonly!
For gud knychtis that war worthv,
(Här slutar Wyntouns avskrift).
For litill enchesoune or than nane,
Thai hangyt be the nekbane.
Al(a)s! that folk, that euir was fre,
And in fredome wount for to be,
Throw thar gret myschance and foly,
War tretyt than sa wykkytly,
That thar fays (fiender) thar Jugis war,
Quhat wrechitnes may man have mar?
A! fredome is A noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis:
He levvs at es that frely levys!
A noble hart may haiff nane es,
Na ellys nocht that may him ples,
Gyff fredome fail|he; for fre liking
Is fharnyt our all othir thing.
Na He, that ay has levyt fre,
May nocht knaw weill the propyrte,
The angyr, na the wrechyt dome,
That is cowplyt to foul thyrldome.
Bot gyff he had assavit It,
Than all perquer he suld It wyt;
And suld think lredome mar to prys
Than all the gold in wärld that Is.
Thus contrar thingis euir-mar,
Discoweryngis off the tothir ar.
And he that thryll Is has nocht his,
All that he has enbandownvt Is
Till hys lörd, quhat euir he be . . .
Klammern omfattar de berömda raderna om friheten och borde just nu
uppskattas av nordiska läsare av uppsatsen.
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