The poems of William Dunbar, collected, with notes and a memoir of his life by D. Laing Volume 2 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...say, R. ' ad curandos entes;' catching at an imperfect sound, as the ignorant universally do: a trifling circumstance of this kind was sufficient to point the satire of the poet at Maister Johnie Clerk."--Hailes. This is not a very satisfactory explanation; yet, being unable to throw any light on the precise meaning of this passage, I refrain from hazarding idle conjectures on the subject. Line 96. Non sicut more solito. See the directions given in the Testament of Squyer Meldrum for his funeral. (Lyndsay's Works, vol. ii. p. 314.) Line 103. With hie stevin. "Voice or sound; it seems to be connected with the following line, ' Potum meum cum feiu miscebam.' As if he had said, 'Singing this stave of the penitential psalm, with many tears.' "--Hailes. "With that verse, or stanza, in the Psalms, '/ have mingled my drink with weeping.'"--Warton. Line 107. Dies ilia, iyc This is the first line, the words being transposed, of the celebrated hymn on the resurrection, in the Missal, which was sung at funerals. Dies irx, dies ilia, Solvet sseclum in favilla, &c. See it printed in Sir Alex. Croke's Essay on Rhyming Latin Verse, p. 134. Oxford, 1828,8vo. Line 115. Than hardely sing. "Than sing hardily, or with confidence."--Hailes. Line 116. "A verse in the Psalms. See other instances in Dunbar (vol. i. page 198.) In George Bannatyne's MS. are many examples of this mixture, the impropriety of which was not, perhaps, perceived by our ancestors."--Warton. COMPLAINT TO THE KING.-Page 142. In MSS. Maitland and Reidpeth.--" This complaint is written in a passion, which is a great enemy to clearness. An author may find occasion to give his writing a zest of supreme indignation; and no cause can be stronger than this of Du...
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About the Author
William Dunbar was a poet in 15th-century Scotland. Ordained a priest in 1504, he served as a cleric in the court of James IV. Harriet Harvey-Wood is a former literature director of the British Council and a former judge for the Man Booker Prize. She was appointed Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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