The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T144558]
- DMI number:
- 494
- Publication Date:
- 1761
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T144558
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113601270
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Douce R 468 v.2
- Full Title:
- THE | EVER GREEN, | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | SCOTS POEMS, | Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH:[/i] | Printed for ALEXANDER DONALDSON, | [i]at Pope's Head.[/i] MDCCLXI.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Quha dar presume thir Poetis to impung, | Quhais Sentence sweit throw[/i] ALBION [i]bin sung.[/i] | Sr. D. LINDSAY.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of Scottish verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2] 3-288
- Comments:
- MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of Scottish verse. NOTE ON SPELLING: As the poems in this miscellany are in Scots dialect, they have been transcribed without modernization. The spelling of the poems has been taken from T143032. Note that in T144558, the spelling is occasionally modernized / variant.
- Other matter:
- BACK MATTER: Scots Glossary pp.265-286, Contents page pp. 287-88.
- Title:
- The ever green being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T144558]
- Publication Date:
- 1761
- ESTC No:
- T144558
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T143032]
- Publication Date:
- 1724
- ESTC No:
- T143032
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T143032]
- Publication Date:
- 1724
- ESTC No:
- T143032
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Alexander Donaldson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- T144558
- Publisher:
- Allan Ramsay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- T144558
- First Line:
- Welcum illustrat lady and our quene
- Page No:
- p.3-15
- Poem Title:
- A New Yeir Gift To Queen Mary, when she came first Hame, 1562.
- Attribution:
- Quod Alexr. Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Scott
- First Line:
- Return hamewart my heart again
- Page No:
- p.15-17
- Poem Title:
- To his Heart.
- Attribution:
- Quod Alexr. Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Scott
- First Line:
- In secret place this hinder nicht
- Page No:
- p.18-21
- Poem Title:
- A Brash of Wouing.
- Attribution:
- Quod Clerk.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Richt as the stern of day began to schyne
- Page No:
- p.22-37
- Poem Title:
- The Goldin Terge.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- First lerges of the king my cheif
- Page No:
- p.38-40
- Poem Title:
- Lorges, lerges, lorges ay, | Lerges of this new Zeirs Day.
- Attribution:
- Quod Stewart.
- Attributed To:
- William Stewart
- First Line:
- We that ar heir in heavens glory
- Page No:
- p.41-46
- Poem Title:
- Dumbars Dregy; Made to K. James V. being in Stirvling.
- Attribution:
- Dumbars Dregy
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Sr John the Ross ane thing ther is compyld
- Page No:
- p.47-48
- Poem Title:
- The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie | Hereafter follows, jocund and merrie.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar to Kennedie.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Dirten Dunbar on quhome blaws thou thy boist
- Page No:
- p.48-50
- Poem Title:
- Kennedie to Dunbar.
- Attribution:
- Quod Kennedie unto Dunbar, | Judge in the nixt quha gat the war
- Attributed To:
- Walter Kennedy
- First Line:
- Ersch brybour baird vyle beggar with thy bratts
- Page No:
- p.50-60
- Poem Title:
- Dunbar to Kennedie.
- Attribution:
- Dunbar
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Dothane deils son and dragon dispytous
- Page No:
- p.61-75
- Poem Title:
- Kennedies Answer to Dunbar.
- Attribution:
- Kennedies
- Attributed To:
- Walter Kennedy
- First Line:
- I Master Andro Kennedy
- Page No:
- p.76-81
- Poem Title:
- The Merry Testament of Master Andro Kennedie.
- Attribution:
- Maid by Master William Dunbar, when he was like to dy.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Of every asking follows nocht
- Page No:
- p.82-84
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Asking.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- To speik of gifts or almous deids
- Page No:
- p.84-87
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Giving.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Now after giving I speik of taking
- Page No:
- p.87-89
- Poem Title:
- Follows Discration in Taking.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Musing alane this hinder nicht
- Page No:
- p.90-92
- Poem Title:
- On Detraction and Deming.
- Attribution:
- Quod Mr. W. Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Sons hes bene ay exylit far out of sicht
- Page No:
- p.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Sons exylt by Pryde
- Attribution:
- Quod Clerk.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Freidom honour and nobillness
- Page No:
- p.95-97
- Poem Title:
- Satyre on Covetousness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- About an bank with balmy bewis
- Page No:
- p.98-174
- Poem Title:
- The Cherrie and the Slae. Compylt into Scottis Meeter by Captain Alexander Montgomery.
- Attribution:
- Compylt into Scottis Meeter by Captain Alexander Montogmery.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- The grit debate and turnament
- Page No:
- p.175-185
- Poem Title:
- The Justing and Debate up at the Doun. Betwixt William Adamson and John Sym.
- Attribution:
- Finis quod Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Scott
- First Line:
- May is a month maist amene
- Page No:
- p.186-189
- Poem Title:
- On May.
- Attribution:
- Quod Alex. Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Scott
- First Line:
- Sum speiks of lords sum speiks of lairds
- Page No:
- p.190-196
- Poem Title:
- Johnie Armstrang.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O gallants all I cry and call
- Page No:
- p.197-202
- Poem Title:
- Of heidstrang Zouth ill to command, | Advysd to keip a Hank in Hand.
- Attribution:
- Quod Balnevis.
- Attributed To:
- Balnevis
- First Line:
- My heart is lost only for luve of one
- Page No:
- p.203-204
- Poem Title:
- The blate Luvair that fain wad, but feirs to speik.
- Attribution:
- Quod Stewart.
- Attributed To:
- William Stewart
- First Line:
- Luve prysis bot comparison
- Page No:
- p.205-206
- Poem Title:
- Luve a Leveler.
- Attribution:
- Quod Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Scott
- First Line:
- Thou well of vertew floure of womanheid
- Page No:
- p.207-208
- Poem Title:
- The Floure of Womanheid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vyce maist vicious he excells
- Page No:
- p.209-211
- Poem Title:
- Donald Owyres Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- The bramble growis althocht it be obscure
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Comparisone.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lyk as the dum solsequium with cair owrecum
- Page No:
- p.212-214
- Poem Title:
- The Solsequium, or the Lover compairing himself to the Sun-Flowir.
- Attribution:
- Quod Montgomery.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Weil is the man
- Page No:
- p.215-216
- Poem Title:
- The First Pschalme.
- Attribution:
- On page 218, attributed with 'These two Pschalmes quod Montgomery.'
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- The Lord maist hie
- Page No:
- p.217-218
- Poem Title:
- The Twenty third Pschalme.
- Attribution:
- On page 218, attributed with 'These two Pschalmes quod Montgomery.'
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- It is my purpose to discryve
- Page No:
- p.219-222
- Poem Title:
- A Discription of Pedder Coffes their having no Regard to Honesty in their Vocation.
- Attribution:
- Quod Lindsay.
- Attributed To:
- Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay]
- First Line:
- I thank ze Jock for zour advyce
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jock quod his ded quhat will me eisy make
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- The fyne Advyce Jock gied his Ded. | Zeil ken quhen ze thir Lynes haif red.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On July seventh the suthe to say
- Page No:
- p.224-232
- Poem Title:
- The Ballat of the Reid-Squair, fought on the 7th July 1576.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The prince of all the fethert kynd
- Page No:
- p.232-235
- Poem Title:
- The Eagle and Robin Red-breist.
- Attribution:
- Quod Ar. Scot.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The paip that pagane full of pryde
- Page No:
- p.236-239
- Poem Title:
- Hay Trix, Tryme go Trix.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Knaw ze not God omnipotent
- Page No:
- p.239-244
- Poem Title:
- On the Mes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of the fals fyre of purgatorie
- Page No:
- p.245-246
- Poem Title:
- On Purgatorie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stately stept he east the wa
- Page No:
- p.247-264
- Poem Title:
- Hardyknute, A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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