Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ... Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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XXII.SIR DAVID LYNDESAY.A.D. 1552.Sir David Lyndesay (generally surnamed * of the Mount/from the name of an estate in Fifeshire, in the parish of Monimail)was born about 1490, and educated at the university ofSt. Andrew's. He was the companion of the young Scottishprince, afterwards James V, whose coursehe watched from hisearliest days till his death in 1542. He was knighted by James,and made Lord Lyon King-at-Arms in 1530, though Sir WalterScott confers that title upon him seventeen years earlier, by apoetical license, as he tells us ; see IMarmion, canto iv. st. 7, andthe note. Lyndesay retired in his latter days to the Mount,where he died about 1557. His principal works are ' The Dreme,'written about 1528; 'The Complaynt,' 1529; 'The Complaynt'of the Kingis Papyngo' (PaiTot), 1530 ; Ane Satyre of the ThrieEstaits,'1535; 'The Historic of William Meldrum, Squyer,' before1550; and 'The Monarche' (i.e. Monarchic or Monarchy),y, 1552. The last and longest is an account of the most famousmonarchies that have flourished in the world. It commenceswith the Creation, and ends with the Day of Judgment. Itwas first printed by Jhon Skott in 1552, and has lately beenreprinted for the Early English Text Society, edited by FitzedwardHall. I follow this edition, and number the lines as theyare there numbered. The reader will see that Lyndesay was afierce Protestant.

{Pride of the Popes.'\'XXII. THE MONARCHE. BOOK III, 249From The Monarche'; Book *III.All men may knaw quhow popis ryngis,In Dignitie abufe all knygis, 4500Als Weill in temporalitieAs in-to Spiritualitie.Thow may se, be experience,The popis Princely preheminence,In Cronicles geue thow lyst to luke, 4505Quhow Carion wryttis, in his buke,Ane Notabyll NarratiounThe jeir of oure SaluatiounAlewin hundreth and sax and fyftie,'Pope Alexander, presumptuouslie, 4510Quhilk wes the thrid pope of that name,'^'^^'^To Fredrike Empriour did diffame :In Veneis, that tryumphand town.That nobyll Empriour gart ly downApone his wambe, with schame and lake, 4515Syne tred his feit apone his bake,In toknyng of obedience.Thare he schew his preheminence,And causit his Clergy for to syngThir wourdis efter following 4520*Super Aspidem & basilisciwi amdulabis,Et conculcabis leonem

{Pride <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Popes.'\'XXII. THE MONARCHE. BOOK III, 249From The Monarche'; Book *III.All men may knaw quhow popis ryngis,In Dignitie abufe all knygis, 4500Als Weill in temporalitieAs in-<strong>to</strong> Spiritualitie.Thow may se, be experience,The popis Princely preheminence,In Cronicles geue thow lyst <strong>to</strong> luke, 4505Quhow Carion wryttis, in his buke,Ane Notabyll NarratiounThe jeir <strong>of</strong> oure SaluatiounAlewin hundreth and sax and fyftie,'Pope Alexander, presumptuouslie, 4510Quhilk wes <strong>the</strong> thrid pope <strong>of</strong> that name,'^'^^'^To Fredrike Empriour did diffame :In Veneis, that tryumphand <strong>to</strong>wn.That nobyll Empriour gart ly downApone his wambe, with schame and lake, 4515Syne tred his feit apone his bake,In <strong>to</strong>knyng <strong>of</strong> obedience.Thare he schew his preheminence,And causit his Clergy for <strong>to</strong> syngThir wourdis efter following 4520*Super Aspidem & basilisciwi amdulabis,Et conculcabis leonem

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