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Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066137687
Table of Contents
SCOTTISH POETRY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
THE TESTAMENT AND COMPLAYNT OF OUR SOVERANE LORDIS PAPYNGO.
THE JUSTING BETUIX JAMES WATSOUN AND JHONE BARBOUR. [280]
SQUYER MELDRUMIS JUSTYNG. [344]
ANE PLEASANT SATYRE OF THE THRIE ESTAITIS.
ADDRESS TO BELLONA AND KING JAMES V.
THE EXCUSATION OF THE PRENTAR.
CHRYSTIS KIRK ON THE GRENE. [880]
NA KYNDNES AT COURT WITHOUT SILLER.
ON THE FOLYE OF ANE AULD MANIS MARYAND ANE YOUNG WOMAN.
AGANIS THE THEIVIS OF LIDDISDAILL.
THE JUSTING AND DEBAIT VP AT THE DRUM BETUIX WILLIAM ADAMSONE AND JOHINE SYM.
THE NIGHT IS NEIR GONE. [1482]
AN ADMONITIOUN TO YOUNG LASSIS.
ABBOTSFORD SERIES OF THE SCOTTISH POETS.
SCOTTISH POETRY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Flodden Field, that long slope looking north-ward by the “deep and dark and sullen Till,” where on a September afternoon in 1513 the flower of Scotland fell round James the Fourth, stands darkly marked on the page of history both of the Scottish nation and of Scottish poetry. It was for the North the burial-place of one era and the birth-place of another. The English billmen who on Flodden closed round the last desperate ring of Scottish spears hewed down with their ghastly weapons not only James himself and his nobles, but the feudal system in church and state, with all that sprang from it, the civilization and poetry of the Middle Ages in Scotland. The national spirit which had burst into leaf at Bannockburn was touched now as by an autumn frost, and a time of storm and darkness must ensue before the country could feel the re-awakening influences of a new spring. The mediæval world, with its charm and its chivalry, its splendour, cruelty, and power, was passing away, while the modern world was in the throes of being born.
Had James IV. lived he would doubtless have continued, firm-handed as he was, to hold in check both churchmen and nobles, and the reforms which were in the