Nonsense, nonsense, here's some *serious* Scottish nonsense!!!
Iersche brybour baird, vyle beggar with thy brattis,
Cuntbittin crawdoun Kennedy, coward of kynd,
Evill-farit and dryit as Denseman on the rattis,
Lyk as the gleddis had on thy gulesnowt dynd,
Mismaid monstour, ilk mone owt of thy mynd,
Renunce, rebald, thy rymyng, thow bot royis.
Thy trechour tung hes tane ane Heland strynd,
Ane Lawland ers wald mak a bettir noyis.
From "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy".
Full text (plus notes -- though who can make sense of when that two get
going?) here:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/dunfrm4.htm
Robin
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