The Brus Book Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFGCCCCHHHHIJEE EE HAIDJIII GJJIIAAIIHGIIJJDDHHG G GKHHAA L HHDDGGDDDGDGDDHHDDG DDGADKHHADDDAGKDEEDD GGDDGGAD L HHEE HGGGGMEGGHHGGDDGGDDG GGGGGAAGGEEKKHADDHHA AGGDDHAIGDDAADD L DDGGGGD GGGDDDD G HHEEEEHHDDGGHHHDD GGEEAGGGGDE| The king goes to Inverurie and falls ill | A |
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| Now leve we intill the Forest | B |
| Douglas that sall bot litill rest | C |
| Till the countre deliveryt be | D |
| Off Inglis folk and thar powste | C |
| And turne we till the noble king | E |
| That with the folk off his leding | E |
| Towart the Month has tane his wai | F |
| Rycht stoutly and intill gud array | G |
| Quhar Alysander Frayser him met | C |
| And als his broder Symonet | C |
| With all the folk thai with thaim had | C |
| The king gud contenance thaim made | C |
| That wes rycht blyth off thar cummyne | H |
| Thai tauld the king off the convyne | H |
| Off Jhone Cumyn erle of Bouchane | H |
| That till help him had with him tane | H |
| Schyr Jhon Mowbray and other ma | I |
| Schyr David off Brechyn alsua | J |
| With all the folk off thar leding | E |
| 'And yarnys mar na ony thing | E |
| Vengeance off you schyr king to tak | E |
| For Schyr Jhone the Cumyn his sak | E |
| That quhylum in Drumfres wes slayn ' | - |
| The king said 'Sa our Lord me sayn | H |
| Ik had gret caus him for to sla | A |
| And sen that thai on hand will ta | I |
| Becaus off him to werray me | D |
| I sall thole a quhile and se | J |
| On quhat wys that thai pruve thar mycht | I |
| And giff it fall that thai will fycht | I |
| Giff thai assaile we sall defend | I |
| Syne fall eftre quhat God will send ' | - |
| Eftre this spek the king in hy | - |
| Held straucht his way till Enrowry | G |
| And thar him tuk sik a seknes | J |
| That put him to full hard distress | J |
| He forbar bath drynk and mete | I |
| His men na medicyne couth get | I |
| That ever mycht to the king availe | A |
| His force gan him halyly faile | A |
| That he mycht nother rid na ga | I |
| Then wyt ye that his men war wa | I |
| For nane wes in that cumpany | H |
| That wald haiff bene halff sa sary | G |
| For till haiff sene his broder ded | I |
| Lyand befor him in that steid | I |
| As thai war for his seknes | J |
| For all thar confort in him wes | J |
| Bot gud Schyr Edward the worthy | D |
| His broder that wes sa hardy | D |
| And wys and wycht set mekill payn | H |
| To comfort thaim with all his mayn | H |
| And quhen the lordis that thar war | G |
| Saw that the ill ay mar and mar | G |
| Travaillyt the king thaim thocht in hy | - |
| It war nocht spedfull thar to ly | - |
| For thar all playne wes the countre | G |
| And thai war bot a few menye | K |
| To ly but strenth into the playne | H |
| Forthi till that thar capitane | H |
| War coveryt off his mekill ill | A |
| Thai thocht to wend sum strenthis till | A |
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| A reflection on leadership the king goes to Slioch | L |
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| For folk foroutyn capitane | H |
| Bot thai the better be apayn | H |
| Sall nocht be all sa gud in deid | D |
| As thai a lord had thaim to leid | D |
| That dar put him in aventur | G |
| But abaysing to tak the ure | G |
| That God will send for quhen that he | D |
| Off sic will is and sic bounte | D |
| That he dar put him till assay | D |
| His folk sall tak ensample ay | G |
| Off his gud deid and his bounte | D |
| And ane off thaim sall be worth thre | G |
| Off thaim that wikkyt chifftane hais | D |
| His wrechytnes sa in thaim gais | D |
| That thai thar manlynes sall tyn | H |
| throu wrechitnes of his convyn | H |
| For quhen the lord that thaim suld leid | D |
| May do nocht bot as he that war ded | D |
| Or fra his folk haldis his way | G |
| Fleand trow ye nocht than that thai | - |
| Sall vencusyt in thar hartis be | D |
| Yis sall thai as I trow per de | D |
| Bot giff thar hartis be sa hey | G |
| That thai na will for thar worschip flei | A |
| And thaocht sum be of sic bounte | D |
| Quhen thai the lord and his menye | K |
| Seys fley yeit sall thai fley apayn | H |
| For all men fleis the deid rycht fayne | H |
| Se quhat he dois that sua foully | A |
| Fleys thus for his cowardy | D |
| Bath him and his vencusys he | D |
| And gerris his fayis aboune be | D |
| Bot he that throu his gret noblay | A |
| Till perallis him abandounys ay | G |
| To recomfort his menye | K |
| Gerris thame be off sa gret bounte | D |
| That mony tyme unlikly thing | E |
| Tha bring rycht weill to gud ending | E |
| Sa did this king that Ik off reid | D |
| And for his utrageous manheid | D |
| Confortyt his on sic maner | G |
| That nane had radnes quhar he wer | G |
| Thai wald nocht fecht till that he wes | D |
| Liand intill his seknes | D |
| Tharfor in litter thai him lay | G |
| And till the Slevauch hald thar way | G |
| And thocht thar in that strenth to ly | A |
| Till passyt war his malady | D |
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| The skirmishing at Slioch | L |
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| Bot fra the erle of Buchane | H |
| Wyst that thai war thidder gane | H |
| And wyst that sa sek wes the king | E |
| That men doutyt off his covering | E |
| He sent eftre his men in hy | - |
| And assemblyt a gret cumpany | H |
| For all his awine men war thar | G |
| And all his frendis with him war | G |
| That wes Schir Jhonne the Mowbray | G |
| And his brodyr as Ik hard say | G |
| And Schyr David off Brechynge | M |
| With fele folk in thar ledyng | E |
| And quhen thai all assemblit war | G |
| In hy thai tuk thar way to far | G |
| To the Slevauch with all thar men | H |
| For till assaile the king that then | H |
| Wes liand intill his seknes | G |
| This wes eftyr the Martymes | G |
| Quhen snaw had helyt all the land | D |
| To the Slevauch thai come ner hand | D |
| Arayit on thar best maner | G |
| And thane the kingis men that wer | G |
| War off thar come thaim apparaylyt | D |
| To defend giff thai thaim assaylyt | D |
| And nocht forthi thar fayis war | G |
| Ay twa for ane that thai war thar | G |
| The erlys men ner cummand war | G |
| Trumpand and makand mekill far | G |
| And maid knychtis quhen thai war ner | G |
| And thai that in the woddis sid wer | G |
| Stud in aray rycht sarraly | A |
| And thocht to byd thar hardyly | A |
| The cummyng off thar ennymys | G |
| Bot thai wald apon nakyn wys | G |
| Ische till assaile thaim in fechting | E |
| Till coveryt war the nobill king | E |
| Bot and othir wald thaim assailye | K |
| Thai wald defend vailye que vailye | K |
| And quhen the erlis cumpany | H |
| Saw that thai wrocht sa wisely | A |
| That thai thar strenth schupe to defend | D |
| Thar archeris furth to thaim thai send | D |
| To bykkyr thaim and men off mayn | H |
| And thai send archeris thaim agayne | H |
| That bykkyrryt thaim sa sturdely | A |
| Till thai off the erlis party | A |
| Intill thar bataill dryvyn war | G |
| Thre dayis on this wys lay thai thar | G |
| And bykkyryt thaim everilk day | D |
| Bot thar bowmen the war had ay | D |
| And quhen the kingis cumpany | H |
| Saw thar fayis befor thaim ly | A |
| That ilk day wox ma and ma | I |
| And thai war quhone and stad war sua | G |
| That thai had na thing for till eyt | D |
| Bot giff thai travaillit it to get | D |
| Tharfor thai tuk consale into hy | A |
| That thar wald thai na langer ly | A |
| Bot hald thar way quhar thai mycht get | D |
| To thaim and tharis vittaillis and mete | D |
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| The king withdraws from Slioch | L |
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| In a littar the king thai lay | D |
| And redyit thaim and held thar way | D |
| That all thar fayis mycht thaim se | G |
| Ilk man buskyt him in his degre | G |
| To fycht giff thai assaillyt war | G |
| In myddis thaim the king thai bar | G |
| And yeid about him sarraly | D |
| And nocht full gretly thaim gan hy | - |
| The erle and thai that with him war | G |
| Saw that thai buskit thaim to far | G |
| And saw how with sa litill effray | G |
| Thai held furth with the king thar way | D |
| Redy to fycht quha wald assaile | D |
| Thar hartis begouth all to faile | D |
| And in pes lete thaim pas thar way | D |
| And till thar housis hame went thai | - |
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| The king goes to Strathbogie then to Inverurie | G |
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| The erle his way tuk to Bouchane | H |
| And Schyr Edward the Bruce is gane | H |
| Rycht to Strabolghy with the king | E |
| And sua lang thar maid sojorning | E |
| Till he begouth to covyr and ga | E |
| And syne thar wayis gan thai ta | E |
| Till Innerroury straucht agane | H |
| For thai wald ly into the plane | H |
| The wynter sesone for vittaile | D |
| Intill the plane mycht thaim nocht faile | D |
| The erle wyst that thai war thar | G |
| And gaderyt a mengne her and thar | G |
| Brechyne and Mowbray and thar men | H |
| All till the erle assemblyt then | H |
| And war a full gret cumpany | H |
| Off men arayit jolyly | D |
| Till Auld Meldrum thai yeid the way | D |
| And thar with thar men logit thai | - |
| Befoir Yhule evyn a nycht but mar | G |
| A thousand trow I weile thai war | G |
| Thai logyt thaim all thar that nycht | E |
| And on the morn quhen day wes lycht | E |
| The lord off Brechyn Schyr Davy | A |
| Is went towart Innerroury | G |
| To luk gyff he on ony wys | G |
| Mycht do skaith till his ennymys | G |
| And till the end off Innerroury | G |
| Come ridand sa sodanly | D |
| That | E |
John Barbour
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