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Scottish Vernacular Literature; A Succinct History
Scottish Vernacular Literature A Succinct History Author:Thomas Finlayson Henderson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: D. Nutt Subjects: Scottish literature Dialect literature, Scottish Scottish Gaelic literature English literature Scotland History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Sc... more »ottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VII GAVIN DOUGLAS AND SIR DAVID LYNDSAY In marked contrast with the fortunes of Dunbar were those of his contemporary -- though some fifteen years Gavin Douglas younger -- Gavin Douglas. Like Dunbar (J475?-i5). the cadet of a noble house, he was the third son of Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, known by the expressive sobriquet of ' Bell-the-Cat,' and also as the ' Great Earl ' -- the great earl of a race that had long posed as rivals of even the royal line, -- and became, by virtue of his abilities and his training as ecclesiastic, the political counsellor of his illustrious family in all its ambitious intrigues. He was born about 1475, and being designed for the Church, studied, like Dunbar, at the University of St. Andrews, where he matriculated in 1489, and graduated M. A. in 1494. It has also been affirmed that he continued his studies at Paris; and it is more than likely that he somewhere completed a course of civil law. But as early as 1496 he had taken priest's orders, and was presented to Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, after which he became pastor of Linton and rector of Hauch, or Prestonhauch (now Prestonkirk), near Dunbar. Here in 1501 he wrote The Police of Honour, in which he makes mention of ' Dunbar zit undeid'; and if the two poets up till then had neve...« less