“Man, pleis thy makar and be mirry, And sett not by this warld a chirry;”
William Dunbar (1460–1520) Poet and civil servant
“A prowde hert in a beggers brest,
A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre,
Horrible othes with an holy prist,
A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre,
A knave to comande and have an empire,
To yeve a jugement of that never was wrought,
To preche of pees and sette eche man on fyre,
It may wele ryme but it accordith nought.”
"On Inconstancy", line 36.
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