r ftbe Scottish tTeyt Society The Maitland Folio Manuscript The Maitland Folio Manuscript Containing Poems by SIR RICHARD MAITLAND, DUNBAR, DOUGLAS, HENRYSON And Others EDITED BY W. A. CRAIGIE, LL.D., D.Litt. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, AND CO-EDITOR OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY VOL. II. Printeti fat tlje Sactetg fog WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS LTD. EDINBURGH AND LONDON 1927 Printed in Great Britain All Rights reserved PREFACE. The delay in the appearance of this volume is due to several causes, the most relevant of which is the editing, in the interim, of the Maitland Quarto and the two volumes of the Asloan MS. The printing of the complete text of the Quarto has made it unnecessary to give, in the notes to this volume, a full collation of the pieces which it has in common with the Folio. These notes are naturally not intended as a detailed commentary on the texts ; their main object is to indicate briefly the relationship of the Maitland version of each piece to such other copies as exist, and to render superfluous any further reference to Reidpeth’s transcript or Pinkerton’s edition. The vocabulary is intended as an index of words and forms rather than as a glossary, and detailed explanation or discussion of obscure terms has been avoided. I am indebted to Dr D. Hay Fleming for the list of contents of the Drummond MS., and to Mr George Watson for assistance in reading the proofs. W. A. CRAIGIE. CONTENTS. PAGE I. The Manuscript i II. The Reidpeth Manuscript .... 7 III. Pinkerton’s Edition of the Maitland MSS. 11 IV. The Maitland Club Edition of Sir Richard Maitland’s Poems 31 V. Notes on the Texts 34 VI. Vocabulary 135 VII. Index of Proper Names .... 183 Maitland Folio MS. I. THE MANUSCRIPT. In its present state the Maitland Folio contains 183 leaves of text; each leaf is separately mounted,1 so that the original distribution into quires is no longer obvious. The pages, not the leaves, are numbered, and thus amount to 366. Of two prefixed pages, the first bears an engraved portrait of Pepys, by R. White ; on the second is inscribed, in a hand apparently of the seventeenth century— A Collection of several Poems by Richard Maitland of Lethington and Others. Pasted inside the front cover is a piece of paper containing— “ Directions for arranging the Folio Manuscript. The end of the Folio is certainly as it originally / stood 1 The dimensions of the mounted leaf are lo}i by 5^ inches, or 261 by 139 millimetres. The present number of the MS. is 2553. Older numbers are 1400^ and 1589. VOL. II. A 2 MAITLAND FOLIO MS. as it bears the Epitaphs of Sir Richard Maitland./ To arrange the MS. right we must begin at the End. Insert p. I after 360. Take out p. 309 and insert after 296. Leaf 252 should be cut out & the last page put first. Leaf 244 is in the same predicament. Leaves 65, 73, and 75 insert before 81. Leaf 67 put at the beginning of all, as it is a detached leaf. Leaves 55 and 57 put before 59. A leaf or more is wanting p. 265. With these very few Alterations the Folio MS. / would be rendered as perfect as possible. Cambridge 1 Dec. 1784 J. P.” As these directions by Pinkerton indicate, a number of leaves have been wrongly placed in the bound volume, and it is clear from Reidpeth’s copy that the misplacing had already come in to some extent before 1622. In the present edition the proper order of the leaves has been restored, the exact misplacement being clearly shown by the marginal numbers, and occasionally indicated in footnotes. The manuscript is written in a variety of hands, the succession of which is regularly given in the footnotes, but the greater portion is the work of one scribe. Placing this first, the distribution of the various hands is as follows, the pages being numbered as in the MS. :— A. 19-35. 4I-50> 53-4. 59-264 (except 67-8); pp. 257-264 are in very faint ink, and many of the earher pages are also faint. 265-338 (in black ink). As mentioned in the Preface to Vol. I., it is clear that pp. 41-264 have been wrongly inserted between 40 and 265, resulting in an interruption of the sequence of Sir THE MANUSCRIPT. 3 Richard Maitland’s poems, and, by some accident, in the loss of the first ten stanzas of No. XCIV. B. pp. 35-37- G- PP- 343-350, 357-366. C. „ 37-38, 55-58, 51- H. „ 350-351- D. „ 38. I- „ 351-356. E. „ 39-40. K. „ 356. F. „ 50, 55- From p. 343 to p. 366 the hands are more cursive than in the main portions of the MS., especially pp. 350-356. Still other hands appear on the leaves which do not originally belong to the MS., viz. :— L. pp. 1-18, 339-342. M. pp. 67-8. The evidence of the different hands, together with the date of some of the pieces, indicates pretty clearly that the manuscript was begun in or about 1570, as pp. 19-35 contain, in one hand, poems earher than that date; PP- 35-37 and 37-38, in different hands, are both of the year 1570 ; and the remainder of 38, with 39 and 40, is filled in with minor pieces. Pages 41-50 then contain Arbuthnot’s two poems, of which the second is dated 1571 ; the remainder of this portion (50, 55-8, 51) is again filled with minor pieces. In addition to the text of the poems, the pages of the MS. occasionally contain later matter of trifling value. At the bottom of p. 37, in an early hand, occurs :— Non possunt perire pro quibus films rogat ne pereant/ pro quibus pater tradidit filium in mortem ut viuant./ Ait bernard. (h)onorantes me honorabo, ait dominus. On p. 185, in an early seventeenth-century hand, is a bad copy of some fines of Stewart’s poem :— And pan shall geir grow in thy ground And welth up walking shall hot weir And riches in thy realme abwnd And peace bwt (sic) ple[n]tie shall appear 4 MAITLAND FOLIO MS. I pray god and his mother dear flair prince for thy prosperitye And grant the grace to perseveir In law and Liberty. Ther is thy barrowes (sic) ge about If 36 wal Iwifit with them be and mak thy legges for to wryt with Iwfe and liberty think gat king is bot ane man and man is polysit (?) efter his dead and thocht ane man all sience can. This is followed, in a different hand, by some lines from the Gude and Godlie Ballatis (S.T.S., p. 63) :— Alace that same sweit face died vpon ane tree to purche (sic) mankynd pace from sine to mak ws free alone to be our remedie to graith owr place full meit He o is asended hea and lett ws with His spirit to worchip spiritiwally only to our remeidy he bad when was gone Apply us helleyaly (?) to serwe our god only. The lower half of p. 256 is filled up with entries in several hands as follows :— (1) Quod maister gavvin douglas Bishop of dunkeld. e~£>zSLr (2) Johne Maitland L. thirlstane c. of Scotland died 3 October 1595 vixit annos 52. (3) Quod maister gavvin douglas Bishop of dunkeld. (4) Sr Richard Maitland off Lethingtoun kny4 died Liued of 3eiris Ixxxxij (5) M. Thomas maitland died in itallie 1572 and Lived of 3eiris 22. Of these entries (1) and (3) are in different hands, but apparently both of the seventeenth century. The second might be contemporary with the event it records, and (4) THE MANUSCRIPT. 5 and (5) are in the same hand. To the left of (3), in another hand, is— This buke pertenis to helyne m. This is no doubt Sir Richard’s daughter Helen, who married Sir John Cockburn of Clerkington. On p. 258 “ ffinis ” is in the same hand and ink as the poem ; " quod . coldinghame ” is in the same hand but different ink ; “ and . 1595 ” is in the same hand as note (2) on p. 256. Various Latin lines are written on the lower half of P- 365 :— Omen (sic) crede diem tibi diluxisse supremuw Vbi minime credis, gurgite piscis eris. Noctes a.tque dies patent (sic) atri Janua ditis O potens rerum Deus aure Mitis exaudi mea verba mente non dura . Percipe questus Exiguum munus cum det tibi pauper amicus Accipito placide et plene laudare memento A considerable number of pages in the Folio, up to p. 254, are furnished with catchwords, and these are sometimes of value in supplying or confirming the initial word or words of a faded page. The full list of those now remaining is :— P. 8 Gett. 9 Off euer. 12 Off schrewis. 14 Syne lyck. I5 Thay 16 Sum 17 Gyff I 58 (= 54) Our lordis 54 (= 58) I haue 60 pair is 66 Ane vther 82 . wauchtit 88 And thocht 92 All is bot 93 Than wring I 94 Bot 3it me think [These three have been rewritten.] 98 Quhat makis 100 fustic w. 102 Quhen dome. 104 And p. 108 Thou leyd no bot for our 114 To lig wt out 116 freyr robert 118 So prelatlyk 120 for I am wearie 122 of the best 124 pertrikis 6 MAITLAND FOLIO MS. pie vans 126 pat ony sic 128 and to the 130 all auld 132 Quhill thay 134 ffor fantnes 136 verum deum 142 Till pai remember 144 I dewill 146 and sinnar 150 outher to be 158 abyd quod scho 162 mahoun to 164 Mahoun gert 166 o nycMngale 168 Sum callis 170 I gang 172 knycAtlie manheid 174 and ever 176 I wes within 178 The change of 180 ffor I of lytill 182 Excellent michtie 184 Chereis thy 186 and gif ws 188 Sic scayt/j and 190 he hes done 191 ScMr lohne the roft 192 O hungrie ens 194 In bartane 196 with jour hie 198 To the o mercyfull1 200 befoir the iuge 202 ThocAt I haue 204 Nixt all in 206 pan pane with 208 O cruell tyger 210 ane singulare thing 212 he 'gat hes 214 now in my my«d 216 and lat pame 218 for nobil aiming 220 I gat na les 232 The wachis 234 Thair saw I 236 This worthy 238 So sweit ane 240 Sen pow maw 242 fra age 244 The king begou^t [in a late hand] 246 Quhy [sic] gustis 248 Thairwit/i the 250 he cryit sc/n’r 252 Richt as thir 254 To rere supper 292 Eschew pe.