Good Friday

The following excerpt is from the play Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, one of the primary sources I am using for my PhD thesis.  Written in 1552 by Scottish courtier Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, I thought it was fitting for Good Friday.  (Above the line is the passage in updated English, below the line you'll find the sixteenth-century Scots.)

Between two theives on the Cross He yeilded the spirit.
And where one drop of His most precious blood
Was recompence sufficient and suitable
A thousand worlds to ransom from that mad
Infernal Fiend, Satan, notwithstanding
He loved us so that for our ransoming
He shed forth all the blood of His body,
Riven, rent and sore wounded where He did hang,
Nailed on the Cross on the Mount Calvary.
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Betwix twa theifs in Croce He yeild the spreit,
And quhair an drop of His maist precious blude
Was recompence sufficient and condingAne thowsand warlds to ransoun from that wod
Infernall Feind, Sathan, notwithstanding
He luifit us sa that for our ransoning
He sched furth all the blude of His bodie,
Riven, rent and sair wondit quhair He did hing,
Naild on the Croce on the Mont Calvary.*

*Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, 1552. Lines 3498-3506.

**Matthias Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece, 1516.