No More Learning

Ross, J. M. , U. S. , 1884, pp. 159-169.
Saintsbury, G. History of English Prosody, 1906, 1, pp. 271 et seq.
Sibbald, J. , U. S. , 1802, 1. pp. 87-90.
WILLIAM DUNBAR.
MSS. There is no single MS collection of Dunbar's poems. They have been
gathered together from the following (1) The Bannatyne MS, u. s. (60
poems); (2) The Maitland Folio MS, U. S. (60 poems and one fragment);
(3) The Asloan MS, u. s. (5 poems and 2 fragments); (4) The Makculloch
MS, u. s. (2 poems); (5), (6), (7) MSS in the British Museum, viz.
Cotton. Vitellius A. XVI, fol. 200 (1 poem), Arundel, No. 285, fol. 161
(3 poems) and App. to Royal MSS, No. 58, fol. 15 b (1 poem); (8) The
Aberdeen Register of Sasines (1 poem); (9) The Reidpath MS, Univ. Lib.
Cambridge, MS Moore, Ll. 5. 10, 1620 (44 poems and 3 fragments).
The distribution of the poems among these MSS is shown in tabular form
in the Scottish Text Society's edition (infra), 1, pp. cxcvi-cxcviii. See also
introduction to Schipper's edition (infra), pp. 5-14. The former edition
ascribes 101 poems to Dunbar; the latter 103. Many of the poems occur
in more than one MS. Thus of the 47 poems represented in the Reidpath MS
only nine (eight, Schipper) are not found in any of the other MSS. The
lists include the poems which have been attributed to Dunbar.
Editions. (a) Chief reprints of the poems before the publication of the
first collected edition by Laing (infra).
Chepman and Myllar's prints, u. s. (7 poems. )
Hailes, Lord. Ancient Scottish Poems. Edin. 1770. (32 poems from the
Bannatyne MS. )
Pinkerton, John. Ancient Scotish Poems. 2 vols. 1786. (23 poems. )
Ramsay, Allan. The Ever Green. Edin. 1724. (24 poems, freely rendered. )
Select Poems of Will. Dunbar. Pt. I. (Morison's Perth edition), 1788.
Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. Vols. I and 11. 1802. (45 poems. )
(6) Collected editions.
Laing, D. The Poetical Works of William Dunbar, with a Memoir and
Notes. 2 vols. Edin. 1824. A supplementary volume published in 1865
contains a selection of poems by the minor Makars.
Schipper, J. The Poems of William Dunbar, edited with Introductions,
Various Readings and Notes. Vienna (Kaiserliche Akademie der Wis
senschaften), 1894. A useful edition, but marred by misprints.
Small-Mackay-Gregor. The Poems of William Dunbar. 3 vols. Scottish
Text Society. 1884-93. (Vol. 1, Introduction by Æ. J. G. Mackay; vol. II,
Texts edited by John Small; vol. III, Notes and Glossary by Walter
Gregor, with an Appendix by Æ. J. G. Mackay. ) This is still the
standard edition.
Critical (general).
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précedé d'une esquisse de sa vie et de ses poèmes. Bonn, 1873.
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Mackay, Æ. J. G. Introduction to Scottish Text Society's edition (supra),
separate issue (privately printed). 1893.
Neilson, W. A. Origins and sources, u. s. , 1899, pp. 2, 163-165, 212, 220 et seg.
Ross, J. M. , u. s. , 1884, pp. 169 et seq.
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Schipper, J. Altenglische Metrik. Bonn, 1882-1888 passim.
Gavin DOUGLAS.
The Palice of Honour.
MSS. None extant.
Editions. A reference in the Edinburgh edition of 1579 (infra) to 'the
copyis set furth of auld amangis ourselfis' has received confirmation by
the discovery of two fragments of an unknown edition (reproduced by
Small, infra, 1, p. clxx), which Laing has dated c. 1540, and acoredited to
an Edinburgh press.
The Palis of Honoure Compyled by Gawyne dowglas Bys- shope of
Dankyll. || Imprinted at London in | fletstret, at the sygne of the Rose
garland by i Wyllyam | Copland | God saue Quene Marye. N. d. ,
(probably 1553).
Heir beginnis | ane treatise callit the Palice | of Honovr compylit | be M.
Gawine Dowglas | Bischop of Dunkeld. || Imprentit at Edin- | burgh be
Iohne Ros | for Henrie Charteris. Anno 1579. Cvm privilegio regali.
Reprint of the 1579 edition, together with the Prologues to Douglas's transla-
tion of the Aeneid, in Morison's Perth edition of Scottish Poets. 1787.
Reprint of the 1579 edition for the Bannatyne Club. 1827.
Pinkerton, J. Reprint of the 1579 edition in Scotish Poems, reprinted from
scarce editions. Vol. 1. 1792.
Sibbald, J.
Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 1802, 1, pp. 385-423 (incomplete).
Small, J. , infra, 1, pp. 1-81.
King Hart.
MS. In Folio Maitland MS (Pepysian Library, Magd. Coll. , Cambridge) 4. s.
Editions.
Pinkerton, John. Ancient Scotish Poems, 1786, 1, pp. 3-43. In this edition
Pinkerton divided, unwarrantably, the poem into two cantos, the first of
53 stanzas, the second of 67.
Small, J. , infra, 1, pp. 83-120.
Smith, G. Gregory, in Specimens of Middle Scots, 1902, pp. 49-64 (stanzas 1-53).
Excerpts are printed by Eyre-Todd in the Abbotsford Series, 1892, 1,
pp. 237-243.
Conscience.
MS. In Folio Maitland MS, u. s. , foll, 192-3.
Edition. Small, J. , infra, 1, pp. 121-122 (misprinted 124).
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Translation of the Aeneid.
MSS. In the library of Trin. Coll. , Cambridge (Galo's MSS, 0. 3. 12)
c. 1525. In the library of the University of Edinburgh, known as the
Elphystoun MS, c. 1525. Another in the same library, known as the
Ruthven MS, c. 1535. In the library of Lambeth Palace, dated
Feb. 1545 (1546). In the library of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat,
dated 1547.
Editions.
The | xüi Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poeto Virgill | Translatet out of
Latyne | verses into Scottish me- | tir, bi the Reverend Fa- | ther in God,
May- | ster Gawin Douglas | Bishop of Dunkel & | vnkil to the Erle | of
Angus. Euery | buke hauing hys | perticular | Prologe. || Imprinted at
Londö 1553. The printer was W. Copland, u. s.
Virgil's Æneis translated into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the
former are corrected, and the defects supplied from an excellent manu-
script. To which is added a large glossary. . . And to the whole is prefixed
an exact account of the Author's Life and Writings. . . Edinburgh.
Andrew Symson and Robert Freebairn MDCCX. The responsible editor
was Thomas Ruddiman; the Life is by bishop John Sage. The MS
referred to is the Ruthven, u. s. , which did not come to Ruddiman's notice
before 45 pages of the folio were in type. John Urry (see the bibliography
to the chapter on Chaucer) gave some assistance. He appears to have
collated a portion of the Bath MS with the edition of 1553 for Ruddiman's
volume. Jamieson was largely indebted to the glossary in the prepara-
tion of his Scottish Dictionary (1st edition, 1808).
The Æneid of Virgil, translated into Scottish verse. Bannatyne Club.
2 vols. 1839. This edition is a handsome reprint of the Cambridge MS
(supra), without prolegomena or notes.
Small, J. (ut infra). 1874. Vols. V, 111 and iv. This edition is based on the
Elphynstoun MS (supra).
Some of the Prologues have been printed separately:
Nos. IV, VII, VIII and XII, and a portion of xin in Sibbald's Chronicle of
Scottish Poetry, 1802, 1, pp. 428-457.
Nos. VII, XII and xin in Eyre Todd's Abbotsford Series, I, pp. 249-269 (re-
printed from Small).
Nos. VII and xn in Hand Browne's Selections from the Early Scottish Poets.
Baltimore, 1896, pp. 154-165 (reprinted from Small).
Nos. I and vii in Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, 1902,
pp. 107–128 (from the Elphynstoun MS, collated with the Ruthven MS).
Douglas's Prologues attracted students in England in the latter half of
the eighteenth century. Cf. Francis Fawkes, Original Poems and Transla-
tions, 1761; T. Warton, who prints the greater portion of No. xii in his
Hist. of Eng. Poetry, III.
Collected Edition.
The only collected edition is The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld, with Memoir, Notes, and Glossary by John Small,
M. A. , F. S. A. Scot. , 4 vols. , Edinburgh, 1874. (Vol. 1, Introduction, etc. ,
The Palice of Honour, King Hart and Conscience. Vols. 11-iv, The
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Lang, A. In Ward's Eng. Poets, 1887, 1, pp. 159-162.
Lange, P. Chaucer's Einfluss auf die Originaldichtungen des Schotten
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Warton, U. s. , section XXXI.
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CHAPTER XI
THE MIDDLE SCOTS ANTHOLOGIES: ANONYMOUS
VERSE AND EARLY PROSE
THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS.
A. Major.
i. The Asloan MS, written c. 1515 by John Asloan, formerly in the
possession of the Boswell family at Auchinleck, but since 1882 in that of
R. W. Talbot, now Lord Talbot de Malahide. Inedited, though extracts
have been printed at various times.
ii. The Bannatyne MS, written in 1568 by George Bannatyne, now in
the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (MS 1. 1. 6). Printed, in its entirety, by
the Hunterian Club (1873-1902). See the introduction there, also Memorials
of George Bannatyne (Bann. Club, 1829).
ii. The Maitland Folio MS, compiled c. 1580 by Sir Richard Maitland
of Lethington, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, preserved in the Pepysian
collection in the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Inedited,
though extracts have been printed at various times.
iv. The Maitland Quarto MS, written by Sir Richard's daughter Marie,
in 1586, containing 42 pieces from the folio MS, also preserved in the
Pepysian collection. Unprinted.
B. Minor.
V. The Makculloch MS, a collection of lecture-notes in Latin by Magnus
Makculloch at Louvain in 1477, now in the Laing collection of MSS in the
library of the University of Edinburgh. The Scots pieces are written on
fly-leaves and blank pages throughout the MS.
vi. The Gray MS, written c. 1500 by James Gray, notary public and
priest of the diocese of Dunblane, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh
(MS 34. 7. 3). The Scots pieces are interpolated throughout the MS.
EARLY PRINTS.
Chepman and Myllar's Prints, printed in 1508 by Walter Chepman and
Andrew Myllar, preserved in a unique volume in the Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh. The collection (20 pieces) was reproduced in facsimile by David
Laing in 1827, but copies are extremely scarce.
NOTE. For a more detailed account of the above collections see the
bibliography in G. Gregory Smith's Specimens of Middle Scots, pp. Ixvi-lxxv.
An early account of the Maitland Folio and Quarto MSS will be found in
Pinkerton's Ancient Sootish Poems, 1786, 11, pp. 437-471.
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EDITIONS (Selections).
Hailes, Lord. Ancient Scottish Poems.