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A choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part I]

DMI number:
140
Aliases
Choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
Publication Date:
1706
ESTC number:
T84147
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW115268602
Shelfmark:
BOD Douce W 143
Full Title:
A | Choice Collection | OF | COMIC and SERIOUS | [g]Scots Poems[/g] | BOTH | ANCIENT and MODERN. | [rule] | [i]By several Hands.[/i] | [rule] | PART I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH[/i], | Printed by [i]James Watson:[/i] Sold by [i]John Vallange.[/i] | M. DCC. VI.
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].
Bibliographic details:
Mispagination: p. 136 mispaginated as 137, with the number justified to the right rather than the left. Bibliographical details: In BOD Douce W 143, this part is bound neatly together with parts 2 (1709) and 3 (1711).
Comments:
Contents: pp. 129-133, Latin poem 'Polemo-Middinia inter vitarvam & nebernam'; pp. 135-141, Latin translations by Walter Dennestone on facing pages of English poems.
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: 'The publisher to the reader' pp. [i-ii] End matter: Index, p. [147].
References:
ESTC number refers to all 3 parts (1706, 1709, 1711). Case refers to individual volumes: see Case 239 (1) (a). 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).
Related Miscellanies
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:
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:
Related People
Printer:
James Watson
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
'Printed by James Watson: Sold by John Vallange.'
Sold by:
John Vallange
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
'Printed by James Watson: Sold by John Vallange.'
Content/Publication
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 Fifth
Attributed To:
James V 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 Deaeh [sic] of the Piper of Kilbarchan or, The Epitaph of Habbie Simson, | Who on his drone bore bony 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:
p.137[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