To bring to lycht, maist humely I exhort

Yow nobill reders, quhare that I haue failyeit

In letter, sillabe, poyntis lang or schort,

That ye will of your gentrice it support[728],

And tak the sentence[729] the best wyse ye may;

I sall do better, will God, ane-othir day.

[ANNO DOMINI.]

The opening stanzas of “The Benner of Pietie.”

Quhen goldin Phebus movit fra the Ram