(An
anonymous
comedy, the plot of which is taken from a tale by
Barnaby Rich.
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containing varietie of
pleasant poeticall descriptions . . . with the most remarkable antiquities of
Scotland. Edinburgh, 1638.
Adamson, John (d. 1653). The muses welcome to the high and mightie
Prince James . . . at his M. happie return to . . . Scotland. (Ed. by Adam-
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Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling (15677-1640). The tragedie of
Darius. Edinburgh, 1603.
Aurora : containing the first fancies of the authors youth. 1604.
The monarchicke tragedies: Croesus, Darius, the Alexandraean, Julius
Caesar. 1607.
Doomes-day, or the great day of the Lords judgement. Edinburgh, 1614.
Recreations with the Muses. 1637. (A collection of his poems. )
Poetical works. 3 vols. Glasgow, 1870-2.
See also bibl. to vol. V, chap. XIII, ante.
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Ayton, Sir Robert (1570–1638). See vol. vu, p. 412, ante.
Barclay, John (1582-1621). See vol. iv, p. 499, ante.
Craig, Alexander, of Rosecraig (1567 ? -1627). Poetical essayes. 1604.
Amorose songes. 1606.
Poetical recreations. Edinburgh, 1609.
The pilgrime and the heremite. Aberdeen, 1631.
Poetical works. . . Now first collected. Hunterian Club. Glasgow, 1873.
Culross, Lady (Elizabeth Melville), (ft. 1603). Ane godlie dreame, compylit
in Scottish meter. Edinburgh, 1603.
This popular poem, of which at least nine editions appeared in the 17th
century, has been reprinted in the Scottish Text Society's edn of Alex.
Hume's poems.
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585–1649). See vol. iv, p. 480.
Gardyne, Alexander (1585 ? -1634? ). A garden of grave and godlie flowres.
Edinburgh, 1609.
The theatre of Scottish kings. Edinburgh, 1709.
Both were rptd by the Abbotsford Club in 1845.
Gordon, Patrick (A. 1614-1650). Neptunus Britannicus. 1614. (On the
death of Prince Henry, etc. )
The famous historye of Penardo and Laissa . . . in heroik verse. Dort,
1615.
The famous historie of the renouned and valiant Prince Robert, sur-
named the Bruce, king of Scotlande. . . in heroik verse. Dort, 1615.
Grahame, Simion (1570 ? -1614). The passionate sparke of a relenting minde.
1604.
The anatomie of humors. Edinburgh, 1609.
Both were rptd by the Bannatyne Club, in 1830.
Hume, Anna (f. 1644). The triumphs of love, chastitie, death; translated
out of Petrarch. Edinburgh, 1644.
Anna Hume also superintended the publication of her father's (David
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Johnston, Arthur (1587-1641). Epigrammata. Aberdeen, 1632.
Parerga. Aberdeen, 1632.
Poemata omnia. Middelburg, 1642.
Vols. I and II of Musa Latina Aberdonensis (New Spalding Club,
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the wellknown collection Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (see above).
Lauder, George (A. 1677). The Scottish souldier. Edinburgh, 1629.
Wight. Edinburgh, 1629.
Both reprinted by Boswell, A. , in Frondes Caducae, 1818. See, also,
other pieces in Laing's Fugitive Scotish Poetry. 1853.
Lithgow, William (1582-1645? ). The totall discourse of the rare adventures
and painfull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares. 1614.
The pilgrimes farewell to his native countrey of Scotland. Edinburgh,
1618.
Scotlands welcome to her native sonne and sovereigne lord, King
Charles. Edinburgh (1633).
A true and experimentall discourse, upon the . . . last siege of Breda.
1637.
The gushing teares of godly sorrow; containing the causes, conditions,
and remedies of sinne. Edinburgh, 1640.
A true experimentall and exact relation (of the). . . siege of Newcastle.
Edinburgh, 1645. Rptd in Somers's Tracts, vol. v.
The poetical remains of William Lithgow . . . now first collected. Ed.
Maidment, J. Edinburgh, 1863.
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subsequent tragedies (Agis, 1758; The siege of Aquileia, 1760; The fatal
discovery, 1769; Alonzo, 1773; Alfred, 1778) met with conspicuous success.
For his history of the Rebellion of 1745, see sec. E, below. His collected
works were ed. by Mackenzie, H. , 3 vols. , 1822.
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Aurora : containing the first fancies of the authors youth. 1604.
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Caesar. 1607.
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Barclay, John (1582-1621). See vol. iv, p. 499, ante.
Craig, Alexander, of Rosecraig (1567 ? -1627). Poetical essayes. 1604.
Amorose songes. 1606.
Poetical recreations. Edinburgh, 1609.
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Poetical works. . . Now first collected. Hunterian Club. Glasgow, 1873.
Culross, Lady (Elizabeth Melville), (ft. 1603). Ane godlie dreame, compylit
in Scottish meter. Edinburgh, 1603.
This popular poem, of which at least nine editions appeared in the 17th
century, has been reprinted in the Scottish Text Society's edn of Alex.
Hume's poems.
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585–1649). See vol. iv, p. 480.
Gardyne, Alexander (1585 ? -1634? ). A garden of grave and godlie flowres.
Edinburgh, 1609.
The theatre of Scottish kings. Edinburgh, 1709.
Both were rptd by the Abbotsford Club in 1845.
Gordon, Patrick (A. 1614-1650). Neptunus Britannicus. 1614. (On the
death of Prince Henry, etc. )
The famous historye of Penardo and Laissa . . . in heroik verse. Dort,
1615.
The famous historie of the renouned and valiant Prince Robert, sur-
named the Bruce, king of Scotlande. . . in heroik verse. Dort, 1615.
Grahame, Simion (1570 ? -1614). The passionate sparke of a relenting minde.
1604.
The anatomie of humors. Edinburgh, 1609.
Both were rptd by the Bannatyne Club, in 1830.
Hume, Anna (f. 1644). The triumphs of love, chastitie, death; translated
out of Petrarch. Edinburgh, 1644.
Anna Hume also superintended the publication of her father's (David
Hume) History of Douglas and Angus.
Johnston, Arthur (1587-1641). Epigrammata. Aberdeen, 1632.
Parerga. Aberdeen, 1632.
Poemata omnia. Middelburg, 1642.
Vols. I and II of Musa Latina Aberdonensis (New Spalding Club,
1892–5) contain all Johnston's secular poems. Johnston also edited
the wellknown collection Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (see above).
Lauder, George (A. 1677). The Scottish souldier. Edinburgh, 1629.
Wight. Edinburgh, 1629.
Both reprinted by Boswell, A. , in Frondes Caducae, 1818. See, also,
other pieces in Laing's Fugitive Scotish Poetry. 1853.
Lithgow, William (1582-1645? ). The totall discourse of the rare adventures
and painfull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares. 1614.
The pilgrimes farewell to his native countrey of Scotland. Edinburgh,
1618.
Scotlands welcome to her native sonne and sovereigne lord, King
Charles. Edinburgh (1633).
A true and experimentall discourse, upon the . . . last siege of Breda.
1637.
The gushing teares of godly sorrow; containing the causes, conditions,
and remedies of sinne. Edinburgh, 1640.
A true experimentall and exact relation (of the). . . siege of Newcastle.
Edinburgh, 1645. Rptd in Somers's Tracts, vol. v.
The poetical remains of William Lithgow . . . now first collected. Ed.
Maidment, J. Edinburgh, 1863.
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Clark, William (f. 1685). Marciano, or the discovery; a tragicomedy.
Edinburgh, 1663.
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Cleland, William (1661 ? -1689). A collection of several poems and verses,
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Colvill, Samuel (f. 1681). Mock poem, or whiggs supplication. 1681. Often
rptd.
Livingstone, Michael (A. 1680). Albion's congratulatory; or, a poem, upon. . .
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poem (op the Earl of Callander). Edinburgh, 1682.
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Savannah, a poem in two cantos. 2nd edn. 1780.
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April, 1782. A heroic poem, in three cantos. Edinburgh, 1788.
Poetical works. 1789.
Douglas, Francis (1710? –1790? ). Rural love, a tale in the Scottish dialect.
3
1
**
Aberdeen, 1750.
The birth-day; with a few strictures on the times; a poem in three
cantos. By a farmer. Glasgow, 1782.
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Falconer, William (1732-1767). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. VII, post.
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comical and serious. Edinburgh, 1726.
The life of Robert Bruce, king of Scots: a poem. Edinburgh, 1729.
This was remodelled and reissued, without the author's name, as The
Bruciad. 1769.
Home, John (1724-1808). Douglas: a tragedy. Edinburgh, 1757.
The stir caused by the production of this popular piece led to Home's
resignation of his ministerial charge at Athelstaneford. None of his
subsequent tragedies (Agis, 1758; The siege of Aquileia, 1760; The fatal
discovery, 1769; Alonzo, 1773; Alfred, 1778) met with conspicuous success.
For his history of the Rebellion of 1745, see sec. E, below. His collected
works were ed. by Mackenzie, H. , 3 vols. , 1822.
See, also, Carlyle, Alexander, in sec. D, below.
Lauder, William (d. 1771). Poetarum Scotorum musae sacra. Edinburgh,
1739.
An essay on Milton's use and imitation of the moderns in his Paradise
Lost. 1750. This unconvincing attempt to convict Milton of plagiarism
first appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
A letter to the Rev. Mr Douglas, occasioned by his vindication of Milton.
1751. (A confession of, and apology for, his literary forgery. )
Logan, John (1748-1788). Poems. 1781.
Runnamede, a tragedy. 1783.
Logan's action as editor of the poems of Michael Bruce (see above)
led to a controversy, which centred chiefly round the Ode to the Cuckoo,
and is remarkable more for its longevity than its importance.
Macpherson, James (1738-1796). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. x, post.
Mallet, David (1705 ? -1765). See bibl. to chap. vi, ante.
Thomson, James (1700-1748). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. v, post.
Wilkie, William (1721-1772). The Epigoniad, a poem. Edinburgh, 1757.
Fables (in verse). 1768.
Wilson, John (1720-1789). The Earl of Douglas, a dramatic essay. 1760.
Clyde, a poem. 1764.
1. y
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