The Poems of William Dunbar
,M s-.fi THE POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. •• WILLIAM DUNBAR, THE GREATEST POET THAT SCOTLAND HAS PRODUCED."—GEORGE ELLIS. " THIS DARLING OF THE SCOTTISH MUSES HAS BEEN JUSTLY- RAISED TO A LEVEL WITH CHAUCER BY EVERY JUDGE OF POETRY, TO WHOM HIS OBSOLETE LANGUAGE HAS NOT RENDERED HIM UNINTELLIGIBLE."—SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. NOW FIRST COLLECTED. WITH NOTES, AND A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE. BY DAVID LAING. VOLUME SECOND. EDINBURGH : MDCC( XXXI\ . PRINTED FOR LAING AND FORBES, PRINCE'S STREET; AND WILLIAM PICKERING, LONDON. 1 CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. PAGE POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO DUNBAR. The Freiris of Berwik, 3 A General Satyre, 24 A Brash of Wowing, 28 Counsale in Luve, ....... 31 Advyce to Luvaris, . 33 Ballad of Kynd Kittok, 35 The Droichis part of the Play, 37 Ballad of Unstedfastness, ...... 44 To the Quene Dowager, ...... 45 The Lordis of Scotland to the Governour, &c. 47 The Danger of Wry ting, 49 Do for Thyself, &c. 51 Of the Nativitie of Christ, 55 Jerusalem rejois for joy, . 57 The Sterne is Rissin, &c 59 Of the Resurrection of Christ, . G THE FLYTING OF DUNBAR AND KENNEDY. Dunbar to Sir John the Ross, . 65 Kennedy to Dunbar, ...... 66 Dunbar to Kennedy, . 67 Kennedy to Dunbar, ...... 75 POEMS BY WALTER KENNEDY. The Praise of Age, Ane Aigit Man's Invective, Ballat in Praise of our Lady, Pious Counsale, The Passioun of Christ, . NOTES TO VOLUME FIRST. Poems by Dunbar, NOTES TO VOLUME SECOND. Poems attributed to Dunbar, 372 The Flyting, 417 Poems by Kennedy, 440 ADDITIONAL NOTES, 451 GLOSSARY, 459 POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM DUNBAR.
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