46 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Quhare ever they go, it may be sene,
How kirk and calsay they soup clene.
Yet shortly after he adds :-
I trow, Sanct Baruard, nor Sanct Blais,
Gart never man beir up their claes,
Peter, nor Paule, nor Sauct Androw,
Gart never bear up their tailliq I trow.
The whole poem evidently depicts the extravagance of an age, when the clown trod
on the noble’s heel. Nuns, and milkmaids, and burghers’ wives, are alike charged
with the fashionable excesses that neither satire nor sumptuary laws proved able to
suppress.
YIQNETTE-NOmXUI Capitd from Holyrood Abbey.
