CORRECTION

¶Their ar the words of the redoutit Roy, The Prince of peace above all Kings King: Quhilk hes me sent all countries to convoy, And all misdoars dourlie to down thring. I will do nought without the conveining Ane Parliament of the estaits all, In their presence I shall but feinȝeing Iniquity under my Sword down thrall. Their may no Prince do acts honourable, Bot give his counsel thereto will assist: How may he knaw the thing mayest profitabil, To follow virtue and vycis to resist: Without he be instructit and solist: And when the King stands at his counsel found, Then wealth shall wax and plenty as he list, And policy shall in his Realm abound. Give any list my name for till inquire, I am called Divine CORRECTION I fled throch money uncouth land & schyre, To the great profit of ilk Nation. Now am I cum into this Region, To teill the ground that hes be Long vnsawin: To punische tyrants for their transgression, And to cause leill men live upon their awin. Nam Realm nor Land but my support may stand For I gar Kings live into Royalty: To rich and puir I beir ane equal band, That they may live into their awin degrie. Where I am nought is no tranqullitie Be me tratours and tyrants ar put down: Quha thinks nam shame of their iniquity Till they be punisched be me Correction, Quhat is ane King nought bot ane officiar, To cause his Leiges live in equity: And under God to be ane punischer, Of trespassers against his Majesty. Bot when the King dois live in tyranny, Breakand Justice for fear or affection: Then is his Realm in weir and poverty, With shameful slaughter but correction. I am ane Judge riched potent and seveir, Cum to do Justice money thousand mile: I am sa constant baith in piece and weir, Nam bud nor favour may my sicht oversyle. Their is therefore riched money in this I'll, Of my repair but doubt that dois repent: Bot virtuous men I traist shall on me smile, And of my coming shall be riched well content. I mervel Gude-counsell how that may be, Ar ȝe nought with the King familiar? But doubt my friend and I live half ane ȝeit I shall search out that great iniquity. Where lyis ȝon Ladies in Captivity? How now Sisters quha hes ȝow sa disgysit? Gang put ȝon Ladyis to their liberty Incontinent and break down all the stocks: But doubt they ar full deir welcum to me, Make diligence, me think ȝe do bot mocks Speid hand and spair nought for to break the locks And tenderly taken them up be the hand Had I them heir they knaves should ken my knocks That them oppressed and baneist aff the land. Cum on Sisters as ȝe have said, I shall, And gar him stand with ȝow thrie firm and stable, Sen ȝe ar quite of Sensuality, Resave into ȝour service Gude-counsall: And riched sa this fair Lady Chastity, Till ȝe marry sum Queen of blude-royall. Observe then Chastity matrimonial, Riched sa resave Verity be the hand, Use their counsel ȝour fame shall never fallen, With Thames therefore make ane perpetual band. ¶Now sir taken tent quhat I will say, Observe their same baith Night and day, And let them never partly ȝow fray. Or else withoutin doubt: Turn ȝe to Sensuality, To vicious life and rebaldrie, Out of ȝour Realm riched shamefully, Ȝe shall be ruttit out. As was Tarquin the Roman King, Quha was for his vicious living And for the shameful ravisching Of the fair chaste Lucres, He was digraidit of his crown, And baneist aff his Region: I maid on him correction, As stories dois express. Sa that ȝe do navther crime, Ȝe shall be pardon it at this time, For quhy as I suppois Princes may sometime seek solace, With mirth and lawful mirrines, Their spirits to reioyis. And riched sa Halking and Hunting, Ar honest pastimes for ane King, Into the time of peace: And leirne to rin ane heavy spear That he into the time of wear, May follow at the cheace. As ȝe have devysit but doubt it sa be done Cum heir my Sergeants and do ȝour debt soon. Put their thrie pellours into pressoun strange, Howbeit ȝe should hang them ȝe do them nam wrahg. Quhom upon ma will ȝe compleine? My Spiritual Lords ar ȝe content? On that condition I am content Till pardon ȝow sen ȝe repent, The Common-weill taken be the hand, And make with him perpetual band. Heir shall the temporal staits, to wit, the Lords and merch ands imbreasse John the Common-weill. John have ȝe any ma debates Against the Lords of Spiritual staits? John, Nam sir I dar nought speak ane word To plaint on Priests it is nam board: Flyt on thy fow fill I desire the: Swa that thou schaw bot the verity. Say quhat ȝe will sirs be Sanct Tan, Me think John ane Good Christian man. As ȝe have done, Madame I am content, Hoaw Diligence pass hind incontinent. And seek out throw all towns and cities: And visie all the universities. Bring us sum Doctors of Divinity. With licents in the law and Theology. With the mayest cunning Clark's in all this land, Speid soon ȝour way and bring them heir From hand. Sir Scribe ȝe shall at Chastities request Pass and exame ȝon thrie in gudlie haist. Pass on Jam riched well content, Sin banische them incontinent Out of this country. As ȝe have said father I am content, Sergeants give John ane new abuilȝement. Of Sating, Damais or of the Velvot fine, And give him place in our Parliament sin. ¶All virtuous people now may be reioisit, Sen Common-weill hes gottin ane gay garmoun: And ignorants out of the Kirk deposit, Devoit Doctors and Clark's of renown Now in the Kirk shall have dominion: And Gude-counsall with Lady Verity Ar professed with our kings Majesty. Blessed is that Realm that hes ane prudent King, Quhilk dois delight to heir the verity, Punisching than me that plainly dois maling, Contrair the Common-weill and equity. Their may nam peopill have prosperity, Where ignorance hes the dominion, And continued ̄ mon-weil be tyrants trampit down. Pausa. Now masters ȝe shall heir incontinent, At great leysour in ȝour presence proclamit The Noble Acts of our Parliament, Of quhilks we neid nought for to be aschamit Cum heir trumpet & found ȝour warning tone That every man may knaw quhat he have done. IT is devysit be their prudent Kings, Correction and King Humanity, That their Leigis enduring all their Ringis, With the avyce of the estaits thrie Shall manfully defend and fortify The Kirk of Christ and his Religion, Without dissimulance or hypocrisy: Under the pain of their punition. Also they will that the Acts honourable, Maid be our Prince in the last Parliament, Because they ar baith Good and profitabill, They willl that every man be diligent Them till observe with vnseinȝeit intent. Quha disobey is inobedient Be their law is but doubt they shall repent And painis conteinit thairin shall underlie. And also the Common-weil for till advance, It is statute that all the Temporal lands, Be set in few after the form of France Till virtuous men that labours with their hands Resonabillie restrictit with sic bans, That they do service nevertheless And to besubiect ay under the wands: That riches may with policy increase. Item this prudent Parliament hes devysit, Give Lords halds under their dominion Theifis, where throch puir people bein supprisit: For them they shall make answer to the crown, And to the pure make restitution: Without they put them in the judges hands For their default to suffer punition, Sa that nam theifis remain within their lands. To that intent that Justice should increase It is concludit in this Parliament, That into Elgin or into Innerness Shall be ane suit of Clark's sapient, Together with ane prudent Precident To do justice in all the Norther Airtis, Sa equally without impediment, That they neid nought seek justice in their pairts. With licence of the Kirks halines, That justice may be done continually, All the maters of Scotland More and less, To their twa famous saits perpetually Salbe directit, because men seis plainly, Their wanton Nunnis ar nam way necessary, Till Common-weill nor ȝit to the glory Of Christ's Kirk, thought they be fat and fair. And also that fragile ordour feminine, Will nought be missit in Christ's Religion, Their rends used till ane better fine: For Common-weill of all this Region. Ilk Senature for that erection, For the vphalding of their gravity Shall have five hundredth mark of pension. And also bot twa shall their nummer be Into the North saxteine shall their remain, Saxtein right sa in our mayest famous town Of Edinburgh to serve our Sovereign: Chosen without partial affection Of the mayest cunning Clark's of this Region: Their Chancellar chosen of ane famous Clark, Ane cunning man of great perfection, And for his pension have ane thousand mark. It is devysit in this Parliament, From this day forth nam mater Temporal Our new Prelates thereto hes done consent Cum before Judges consistorial, Quhilk hes be sa prolixt and partial: To the great hurt of the community: Let Temporal men seek Judges Temporal And Spiritual men to Spritualitie. Nam benefice beis giffin in time coming, Bot to men of Good erudition: Expert in the holy Scripture and cunning, And that they be of Good condition: Of public vices but suspitioun, And qualefiet riched prudently to preich, To their awin folk baith into land and town Or else in famous scuillis for to teich: Also because of the great plurality Of ignorant Priests ma then ane Legion. Qi hair throch of Teicheouris the heich dignity, Is vilipendit in ilk Region Therefore our Court hes maid provision, That nam Bshops make teichours in time coming: Except men of Good erudition, And for Preistheid qualefeit and cunning Siclyke as ȝe see in the borrows town Ane Tailȝeour is nought suffered to remain, Without he can make doublet, coat and gown, He man gang till his prenteischip again: Bishops should nought ressaue me think certain, Into the Kirk except ane cunning Clark: Ane idiot Priest Isaiah compaireth plain, Till ane dum dog that can nought bite nor bark. From this day forth see nam Prelates pretend, Under the pain of inobedience At Prince or Paip to purchase ane command Again the kow because it dois offence: Till any Priest we think sufficience And benefice for to serve God withal, Twa Prelatssall nam man have from thence, Without that he be of the Blood Royal. Item this prudent counsel hes concludit, Sa that our holy Vicars be nought wraith From this day forth they salbe clean denudit Baith of corspresent cow and vmest claith. To pure commons because it hath done skaith And mairouer we think it little force, Howbeit the Barrouns thereto will be laith, From thine-furth they shall want their hyrald Horse. It is decreit that in this Parliament Ilk Bishop Minister, Prior and Person To the effect they may taken better tent To saulis under their dominion, After the form of their fundatioun, Ilk Bishop in his Diosie shall remain: And everilk Person in his parachoun, Teiching their folk from vices to refrain. Because that clark's our substance dois continued ̄ fume For bills and proces of their prelacies: Therefore their shall nam money Gam to Room From this day forth or any benefice: Bot give it be for great Archbischopries, As for the rest nam money gais at all: For the increasing of their dignities, Nam More nor did to Peter nor to Paull. Considering yat our Priests for the mayest partly They want the gift of Chastity wese: Cupido hes sa pierced them throch the heart, We grant them licence and fry liberty, That they may have fair Virgins to their wyfis: And sa keip matrimonial Chastity, And nought in huirdome for to leid their lyfis. This Parliament riched sa hes done conclude From this day forth our Barrouns temporal, Shall nam More mix their noble ancient Blood With bastard bairns of Stait Spiritual: Ilk stait among their awin selfis marry shall, Give Nobils marry with the Spritualitie, From thine subject they salbe, and all Sal be degraithit of their Nobility. And from among the Nobils cancellit: Unto the time they by their liberty, Rehabilit be the civil magistrate And sa shall marry the Spirituality. Bichops with bishops shall make affinity, Abbots and Priors with the Priores: As Bishop Annas in Scripture we may see, Married his dochter on Bishop Caiphas. ¶Now have ȝe herd the Acts honourable, Devysit in this present Parliament, To Common-weill we think agreabill: All faithful folk should heirof be content, Them till observe with heartily true intent, I wait nane will against our Acts rebel, Nor till our law be inobedient, Bot Plutois band the potent prince of hell. Get up sir King, ȝe have sleipit aneuch Into the armis of Lady Sensual. Be suit that More belangis to the pleuch, As efterward perchance rehears I shall. Remember how the King Sardanapall, Among fair Ladies took his lust sa Long, Sa that the mayest pairt of his Leiges all Rebelled, and sin him duilfully down thrang. Remember how into the time of Noy, For the foul stink and sin of lechery, God be my wand did all the World destroy, Sodom and Gomore riched sa full rigorously, For that vild sin war brunt in mayest cruelly. Therefore I the command incontinent, Banische from the that huir Sensuality, Or else but doubt rudely thou shall repent. Ȝe hardly lay on them ȝour hands, Right sa upon Sensuality, Good John I grant all that is true Ȝour infortoun full sair I rew: Or I pairt aff this Nation, I shall make reformation. And also my Lord Temporality, I ȝow command in time that ȝe Expel oppression aff ȝour lands. And also I say to ȝow merchands, Give ever I find be land or sie, Dissait be in ȝour company: Quhilk ar to Common-weill contrair, I vow to God I shall not spair To put my sword to execution, And make on ȝow extreme punition. Mairouer my Lord Spirituality, In gudlie haist I will that ȝe Set into few ȝour temporal lands. To men that labours with their hands. Bot nought to ane gearking gentle man, That neither will he wirk, nor can: Where throch the policy may incresse. Uva than, ȝe think to strive for stair. My Lords quhat say ȝe to this play? Cair thou nought quhat estait sa ever he be, Sa they can teich and preich the verity, Mayest cunning Clark's with us is best beluifit, To dignity they salbe first promuifit. Quhidder they be Munk, Cannon, Priest or Freir, Sa they can preich faill nought to bring them heir. As ȝe have said I am content, To gar sum preich incontinent, Pausa. Magister noster I ken how ȝe can teiche, Into the scuillis and that riched ornately: I pray ȝow now that ȝe walled please to preiche, In Inglisch tongue, land folk to edify. I have power great Princes to dou ̄ thring That lives contrair the Majesty Divine Against the truth quhilk plainly dois maling, Repent they nought I put them to ruin. I will begin at thee quhilk is the head, And make on the first reformation, Thy Leiges than will follow the but pleid, Swyith harlot hence without dilatioun. Is this the partly my Lords that ȝe will taken To make us supportation to correct: It dois appear that ȝe ar culpabill, That ar nought to Correction applyabill. Suyith Diligence gaschaw it is our will, That everilk man oppressed geif in his Bill. Than pass thy way & greath the gallous Sin help for to hang up thy fellow is, Thou gets nam uther grace: Of that office I am content, Bot our Prelates I dread repent, Be I fleimde from their face. I counsel ȝow incontinent, To gar proclaim ane Parliament, Of all the thrie estaits. That they be heir with diligence, To make to ȝow obedience, And sin dres all debates. Cum heir Placebo and Solace, With ȝour companȝeoun Wantonness, I knaw well ȝour condition: For tysting King Humanity, To resave Sensuality, Ȝe man suffer punition. Ȝe ar ane Prince of Spritualitie. How have ȝe used ȝour office now let see? My tender Friends I pray ȝow with my heart, Declair to me the thing that I walled speir, Quhat is the cause that ȝe gang all backwart? The verity their of feign walled I heir. Conclude ȝe nought with the Comon-weil Ȝe salbe punischit be Sanct Geill. I weind ȝour office had be for till preich, And Gods law to the peopill teich, Quhairfoir weir ȝe that mytour ȝe me tell? That dois betakin that ȝe with Good intent, Should teich & preich the old & New testament Schaw forth ȝour faith and feign ȝe nought. Schaw forth the rest, this is nam game. My Lord ȝour complaint is riched ressonabill, And riched sa to our dochtours profitabill: I think or I pass aff this Nation, Of this mater till make reformation. With the advice of King Humanity, Heir I determine with ripe advisement, That all their Prelates shall deprivit be, And be decreit of this present Parliament, That their thrie cunning Clark's sapient Immediately their places shall poss: Because that they have be sa negligent, Suffering the word of God for till decrees. Sir I give ȝow baith counsel & continued ̄ manned, In ȝour office use exercitioun: First that ȝe gar search out throch all ȝour land, Quha can nought put to execution Their office after the institution, Of godly laws, conform to their vocation: Put in their places men of Good condition, And this ȝe do without dilatioun. Ȝe ar the head sir of this congregation, Preordinat be God omnipotent: Quhilk hes me send to make ȝow supportation, Into the quhilk I salbe diligent. And quha saever beis inobedient, And will nought suffer for to be correctit, They salbe all deposit incontinent, And from ȝour presence they shall be deiectit.