A choise collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern by several hands [T84146] [Part I]
- DMI number:
- 141
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1713
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 3
- ESTC number:
- T84146
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113087311
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 191
- Full Title:
- A | Choise Collection | OF | COMIC and SERIOUS | [g]Scots Poems,[/g] | BOTH | ANCIENT and MODERN | [i]By several Hands[/i]. | [rule] | PART I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH[/i], | Printed by JAMES WATSON, and Sold at his | Shop, next Door to the [i]Red-Lyon,[/i] opposite | to the [i]Lucken-Booths.[/i] 1713.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Quicquid agunt Homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas | Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago Libelli.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of Scottish verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [4] 1-146, [2] pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Pagination: 17, 53 justified to the left instead of right; 103 mispaginated as '104'. In BOD Harding C 191, this second edition of Part 1 is neatly bound together with the first editions of Part 2 (1709) and Part 3 (1711).
- Comments:
- Contents: pp. 129-133, Latin poem 'Polemo-Middinea inter vitarvam & nebernam'; pp. 135-141 Walter Dennestone's translations of several English poems, interspersed with English originals.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: 'The publisher to the reader' pp. [i-ii] End matter: Index p. [147]
- References:
- ESTC number and ECCO facsimile refer to Part 1 [2nd ed] + Part 2 [first ed] + Part 3 [first ed]. Case refers to individual volumes: see Case 239 (1) (b) 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 choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part II]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- T84147
- Volume:
- 2 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:
- Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
- Page No:
- pp.1-7
- Poem Title:
- Christ's kirk on the green
- Attribution:
- Composed (as was supposed) by King James the First
- Attributed To:
- James I of Scotland
- First Line:
- Fy let us all to the briddel
- Page No:
- pp.8-10
- Poem Title:
- The blythsome wedding
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pox fa that poultering poverty
- Page No:
- pp.11-16
- Poem Title:
- The banishment of Poverty
- Attribution:
- By J. D. of Albany
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir first of all that it may please
- Page No:
- pp.17-20
- Poem Title:
- Lintoun address, to his highness the Prince of Orange
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Victorious sir still faithful to thy word
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- Lintoun address, to his highness the Prince of Orange. Prologue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thrice noble Orange blessed be the time
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Colin by promise being obliged to pay
- Page No:
- pp.21-24
- Poem Title:
- The poor client's complaint. Done out of Buchanan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What accident what strange mishap
- Page No:
- pp.25-31
- Poem Title:
- The speech of a Fife laird, newly come from the grave
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kilbarchan now may say alas
- Page No:
- pp.32-35
- Poem Title:
- The life and death of the piper of Kilbarchan or, The epitaph of Habbie Simson, Who on his drone bore bonny flags; He made his cheeks as red as crimson, And babbled when he blew the bags
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alake for evermare and wae
- Page No:
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Sanny Briggs, nephew to Habbie Simpson, and butler to the laird of Kilbarchan
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An hether man as I heard say
- Page No:
- pp.39-67
- Poem Title:
- The mare of Collingtoun newly revived.
- Attribution:
- Compiled and corrected by P. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alas alas quo' bonny Heck
- Page No:
- pp.68-70
- Poem Title:
- The last dying words of Bonny Heck, a famous grey-hound in the shire of Fife
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- About a bank with balmy bews
- Page No:
- pp.71-124
- Poem Title:
- The cherry and the slae
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Supreme essence beginner unbegun
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- A sweet sonnet to the blessed trinity
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- I've sinned father be merciful to me
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- Captain Alexander Montgomery his lamentation
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Like as the dumb Solequium with care overcome
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- The solsequium
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Leave sin ere sin leave thee do good
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- Psal. 36. Declina a malo, & fac bonum
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Let dread of pain for sin in after time
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- His morning muse
- Attribution:
- Compiled into metre by Captain Alexander Montgomery
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Montgomerie
- First Line:
- Ye virtuousi have it to you assigned
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- To the virtuosi
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Upon a time the fairy elves
- Page No:
- pp.136-138
- Poem Title:
- Upon the king of fairy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No sooner was their king attired
- Page No:
- pp.138-140
- Poem Title:
- On the Queen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In melancholic fancy
- Page No:
- pp.142-146
- Poem Title:
- Hallow my fancie, whither wilt thou go?
- Attribution:
- The one half of them (viz. from this Mark *** to the end) were writ by Lieutenant Colonel Clealand of my Lord Angus's Regiment, when he was a Student in the College of Edinburgh, and 18 Years of Age.
- Attributed To:
- Lieutenant Colonel Clealand
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