A choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part II]
- DMI number:
- 143
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 3
- ESTC number:
- T84147
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115268602
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Douce W 143
- Full Title:
- A | Choice Collection | OF | COMIC and SERIOUS | Scots Poems, | BOTH | [i]Ancient[/i] and [i]Modern.[/i] | [rule] | [i]By several Hands.[/i] | [rule] | PART II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH,[/i] | Printed by [i]James Watson[/i], and Sold at his | Shop next Door to the [i]Red-Lyon[/i], opposite | to the [i]Lucken-booths[/i]. 1709.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of Scottish verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-viii, 1-117, [3]
- Bibliographic details:
- BOD Douce W 143 is bound together with parts 1 and 3.
- Other matter:
- Back matter: Index, pp. [118-119]
- References:
- ESTC number T84147 and ECCO facsimile refer to all 3 parts. This part is also included (together with part 3) in ESTC T84146. Case 239 (2) Facsimile reprint + introduction: 'James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems' ed. Harriet Harvey Wood, 2 vols (Edinburgh/Aberdeen: Scottish Text Society, 1977 and 1991).
- Title:
- A choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part I]
- Publication Date:
- 1706
- ESTC No:
- T84147
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- A choise collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern by several hands [T84146] [Part I]
- Publication Date:
- 1713
- ESTC No:
- T84146
- Volume:
- 1 of 3
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- A choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part III]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- T84147
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Printer:
- James Watson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by James Watson, and Sold at his Shop next Door to the Red-Lyon, opposite to the Lucken-booths.'
- First Line:
- During the reign of royal Robert
- Page No:
- p.iii-viii
- Poem Title:
- Robert the III. king of Scotland, his answer to a summons sent him by Henry the IV. of England, to do homage for the Crown of Scotland
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At Edinburgh as micht be seene
- Page No:
- pp.1-15
- Poem Title:
- The discription of the queens majesties maist honourable entry into the town of Edinburgh, upon the 19. day of Maii, 1590
- Attribution:
- By Iohn Burel
- Attributed To:
- John Burel
- First Line:
- As I went throw ane wood sauage
- Page No:
- pp.16-34
- Poem Title:
- The passage of the pilgremer, devidit into twa pairts
- Attribution:
- By Iohn Burel
- Attributed To:
- John Burel
- First Line:
- First in my visioun I saw
- Page No:
- pp.35-53
- Poem Title:
- The secound passage of the pilgrimer
- Attribution:
- By Iohn Burel
- Attributed To:
- John Burel
- First Line:
- Here lies the gallant Grahame Wallace true Achates
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Sir John the Grahame's epitaph in Latin, with it's translation
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cankered cursed creature crabbed corbit kittle
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Sir Thomas Maitland's satyr upon Sir Niel Laing, who was a priest and one of the Pope's knights, about the time of the Reformation
- Attribution:
- Sir Thomas Maitland's Satyr
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Maitland
- First Line:
- What sudden heat inspires my labouring mind
- Page No:
- pp.55-66
- Poem Title:
- Epithalamium upon the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to the Dauphin of France, afterwards Francis II. Done from the Latin of Buchanan.
- Attribution:
- By ****
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Edinburgh may say ohon
- Page No:
- pp.67-70
- Poem Title:
- William Lithgow, writer in Edinburgh, his epitaph
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing no triumphs nor such empty things
- Page No:
- pp.71-93
- Poem Title:
- Caelia's country-house and closet
- Attribution:
- By Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Advocate to K. Charles II. and K. James VII
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Mackenzie
- First Line:
- As Adam was the first of men whence all beginning tak
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- King James VI. having return'd to Sterling the 18 of July 1617, on the morrow deigned with his presence some philosophick disputations; and gave the following characters of the performers
- Attribution:
- King James VI...gave the following
- Attributed To:
- James VI and I
- First Line:
- What blustering noise now interrupts my sleep
- Page No:
- pp.95-113
- Poem Title:
- Forth feasting: a panegyricke to the king, on his majesty's happy return to his old and native kingdom of Scotland, after 14 years absence, in anno 1617
- Attribution:
- This poem was presented by William Drummond of Hawthornedenne
- Attributed To:
- William Drummond
- First Line:
- Love's like a game at tables where your die
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- On love
- Attribution:
- The three following poems were writ by Sir Robert Aitoun, Secretary to Ann and Mary Queens of Great Britain, &c
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Ayton
- First Line:
- Pamphila has a number of good parts
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Upon a gentlewoman that was painted
- Attribution:
- The three following poems were writ by Sir Robert Aitoun, Secretary to Ann and Mary Queens of Great Britain, &c
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Ayton
- First Line:
- The other night from court returning late
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- On returning late at night from court
- Attribution:
- The three following poems were writ by Sir Robert Aitoun, Secretary to Ann and Mary Queens of Great Britain, &c
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Ayton
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