Poem by Alexander Montgomerie

Sonnet 65. From London to W. Murray

Belouit brother, I commend me to jou.
Pleis jou, resaiv this lytil pretie ring,
With all the rest of goodnes I may do jou,
Quhan I may vaik fra service of the king.

Sen for jour saik I keepit sik a thing,
I mene the pece of lether from jour spur,
If I forjet — in hemp, God ! nor je hing ! —
Vncourtessie comes aluayis of a cur.

Bat je sall find me byding lyk a bur,
Quhilk lichtlie will not leiv the grip it gettis;
And am right dortie to come ouir the dur,
For thame that by my kyndnes no-thing settis.

Thus haif I bene as jit, and sal be so ;
Kynd to my freind, bot fremmit to my fo.

1. The Cherrie and the Slae
2. Sonnet 30. Christen Lyndesay to Ro. Hudsone
3. Sonnet 18. To the Lords of the Session. I
4. Sonnet 61. Of the Duleweid. III
5. Sonnet 24. Of M. J. Sharpe. II

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