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I WREITTOUN TEXT . 71 THE FLYTING OF MONTGOMERIE AND POLWART— TULLIBARDINE AND HARLEIAN TEXTS . I29 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM THE LAING MANUSCRIPT— 1. Luif still in hope with pacience . .192 2. Sueit hairt, reiofi in mynd . .194 3. Wo worth the fall of fourtounis quheill .... 195 4. Prepotent palme Imperiall . , .196 5. King Cupaid, grades god of glaikes .... 198 6. Nan luffis bott fullis vnlud agane .... 200 7. Fresche flureis fair, and lusum ladie quhyte . 201 8. As eis ar message to }>e hairt ..... 204 9. Och, Luif, in langour heir I ly . 205 10. Redolent roifi, my onlie schois ..... 208 11. My freind, if |)ow will credeitt me in oucht . 210 12. O fragant flour, fair and formoift .... 212 13. Grund the on patience, blind not thy conscience . 213 14. The luif I beare is fixtt on one ..... 214 15. Suppois I be of simple clan ..... 214 16. In somer quhen }>e feildis ar fair . .215 17. I wifi I wair transfigurat in ane ring . .216 18. Glade am I, glade am I. 216 19. I hoipe to fi«rve, sane syne to deserue . .217 20. My breist is maid the verray graif of woo . .217 21. Ane Dreame ....... 218 VI CONTENTS. 22. Your outuard gesture, forme, and fassions fair . .218 23. I serve ane dame moir quheiter than the snaw . 219 24. The royall palice of )>e heichest he win . .219 25. The tender snow, of granis soft & quhyt . 220 26. Ane Scottis sonnett . , . .221 27. Sonet . .221 28. Sonnett ... .... 222 29. Some men for suddane Joy do weip .... 222 30. Peccaui pater, meserere mei ..... 226 31. O Lord, my god, to }>e I cray, heir my complent . 229 32. O Lord, my god, sen I am brocht to greitt distres . .231 33. Quha so dois put J>air confidence .... 232 34. Harken, herkene, me think ane trompett dois stund . 237 35. The weicht of sin is wondir greitt .... 243 36. Consider, man, how tyme do pas .... 247 appendices— A. The Genealogy of Alexander Montgomerie (with Chart) . 249 b. Montgomerie in the Scottish Law Courts . 262 c. New sources of Montgomerie’s Poetry .• . 286 d. Life-Records of Montgomerie ..... 300 notes— To “The Cherrie and the Slae” ..... 337 To “The Flyting of Polwart and Montgomerie” . 348 To Miscellaneous Poems from Laing MS. No. 447 . 354 GLOSSARY ........ 370 LIST OF FACSIMILES. 1. laing MS. no. 447, FOL. 15a (Edinburgh university) . Frontispiece 2. TITLE-PAGE of waldegrave’s FIRST EDITION OF “THE CHERRIE AND THE SLAE ” (BRITWELL COURT, BUCKS.) To face p. I 3. TULLIBARDINE MS. OF THE “FLYTING,” FOL. 9a. n 337 INTRODUCTION. § i. The object of this supplementary volume may be briefly explained. During the interval of now rather more than twenty years since the late Dr Cranstoun edited the poems of Montgomerie for the Society, a consider- able amount of new material has been found which has an important bearing on the text of the poet’s writings, and which also adds in a most interesting way to our scanty knowledge of his personal history. Especially notable is the recovery of three neglected manuscripts, the first public mention of which we owe to Dr Rudolf Brotanek of Vienna,1 whose valuable monograph on Montgomerie deserves to be better known in Scotland than it is. Two of these at least, and possibly also the third, although this is not so likely, date, there can be no reasonable doubt, from Montgomerie’s own lifetime. One, the Tullibardine copy of the “Fly ting with Pol wart,” goes back, indeed, if the present editor’s view as to the 1 ‘ Studien zu Alexander Montgomerie ’: Oscar Hoffmann (Englische Studien, xx. band, 1895); ‘ Untersuchungen viber das Leben und die Dichtungen Alexander Montgomerie ’: Rudolf Brotanek (Wien und Leipzig, 1896). viii INTRODUCTION. date of its transcription is correct, to a time almost if not actually contemporary with the memorable encounter of the two poets, and in that case supplies us with a version nearly fifty years earlier than the printed edition of 1629 which Dr Cranstoun, in common with Laing and other editors, was of necessity obliged to rely on. Besides its linguistic value, in providing us with a text free from the anglicising tendencies of the Scottish printers, the Tullibardine manuscript will be found to possess some other interesting features—of ownership, augmentations of the text, variant readings, and of a differing arrangement of the “ invective ” epistles of the “ flyters ”—which are duly noted and discussed later on. A like interest and value attaches to the transcript of “ The Cherrie and the Slae,” which, along with a collection of hitherto unpublished anonymous poems, some of which are not improbably by Montgomerie himself, forms the contents of another of these manuscripts. The third, belonging to the Harleian collection in the British Museum, is a somewhat later copy of the “ Flyting.” It need only be remarked at present that in any future critical edition of Montgomerie’s writings these new sources of the text must certainly be taken account of as of primary importance. The personal documents and references of one kind or another which have been found are more extensive than might have been expected at this late day. By means of these it has been possible to fill out a little the hitherto very meagre accounts of the poet’s life. Finally, as an outcome of the renewed study of his writings, following the publication of Dr Cranstoun’s volume in 1887, valuable light has been thrown on the literary influences affecting Montgomerie INTRODUCTION. IX in his poetical compositions.1 It has seemed desirable that this supplementary material, touching the career and work of the last of the “ Makaris,” should find a place amongst the Society’s publications, and it is to this end the present volume has been undertaken. § 2. The new biographical matter will be found set forth and discussed at length in the Appendices, and need not be further dealt with here: a few words to point its general importance, however, may be a con- venience. The account given of the poet’s genealogy (Appendix A, chart and notes) is based for the most part on evidence drawn at first hand from authentic and unpublished documents—charters, wills, protocol books, Court of Session, Commissary, and other records—in the Register House, Edinburgh, and has involved, it may be permissible to say, a lengthy and rather irksome search. Some of the results of this investigation are of consider- able importance. Thus it is now possible for the first time to show with certainty, and without the usual dependence on conjecture, to which generation of the Montgomeries of Hessilheid, a branch of the Eglinton family, the poet belonged. His connection, indeed, with this noble house has hitherto been vouched for in no very sufficient way. Our new sources of information, however, put it now beyond question that the poet was a younger son of John Montgomerie, the fourth laird of Hessilheid. It will be noted that this corrects an error which, since the date of James Paterson’s valuable account of the family, 1 Unfortunately Dr Brotanek does not appear to have had an opportunity of examining the Laing and Harleian MSS. which he noted in catalogues, and was able to make but a cursory inspection of the Tullibardine MS. Now that the contents are before him it is to be hoped that he may yet express his views on the new texts. X INTRODUCTION. contained in his well-known history of Ayrshire, published in 1847, has persisted down to the present time. Paterson in his genealogy places the poet in an earlier generation of the family, assigning to him as his father Hugh, the third laird of Hessilheid. For this statement, however, he adduces no evidence at all, and there need be no hesitation now in saying that the Ayrshire antiquary is here covertly indulging himself in the pleasure of con- jecture. § 3. An interesting result of this arrival at the true parentage of the poet is the discovery that through his mother, Margaret Fraser, a great granddaughter of Sir John Stewart of Derneley, Montgomerie could claim a not very distant kinship with James VI., in whose house- hold, it has long been known, he held for some years a position as one of his majesty’s servitors. That the king’s interest in the poet’s fortunes would be all the livelier on account of this family relationship is probable enough, and it may serve to explain the intimate footing on which Montgomerie at one time appears to have stood with James. In one of a series of juvenile poems, dis- covered some years ago in the Bodleian Library,1 the king addresses Montgomerie in the affectionately familiar style of “Belouit Sandirs,” and in the year 1583 made him the recipient of a substantial pension.
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