ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE

23         [Remembers thou in Æsope of a taill]

  Remembers thou in Æsope of a taill

A loving Dog wes of his Maister fane

To faun on him wes all his Pastym haill

His courteous Maister clappit him agane.

5                 By stood ane Asse a beist of blunter brane

Perceiving this bot looking to no freet

To pleis hir Maister with the counterpane

Sho clambe on him with hir foull clubbit feet

To play the Messan thoght sho wes not meit

10          Sho meinit weill I grant hir mynd wes guid

Bot vhair sho troude hir Maister suld hir treit

They battound hir vhill that they sau hir bluid

So stands with me vho loves with all my hairt

My Maister best, some taks it in ill pairt