[97] go to law.
[98] crowd.
[99] went then.
[100] reward.
[101] striped stuff.
[102] exchange.
[103] notice.
[104] on the bough.
[105] offer.
[106] approach.
[107] call.
[108] set.
[109] born.

WILLIAM DUNBAR.

(1460-1520?)

[V.] THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.

One of Dunbar's most telling satires, as well as one of the most powerful in the language.

I.

Of Februar the fiftene nicht

Full lang before the dayis licht

I lay intill a trance

And then I saw baith Heaven and Hell