Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
- DMI number:
- 4601
- First Line:
- Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
- Last Line:
- For he durst ding no other | But them that day
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Nine-line stanzas, Dialect verse, and Song with refrain
- Themes:
- Entertainments / pastimes, Fighting / conflict, Rural life, Scotland, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Allan Ramsay
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Works (1945-1974) I: 57-82.
- Author:
- James I of Scotland
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Authorship discussed, Wood II (1991): 1-2.
- Author:
- James V of Scotland
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Authorship discussed, Wood II (1991): 1-2.
- First Line:
- Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
- Last Line:
- Was souple like a docken | bout him that day
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Was never in Scotland heard or seen
- Last Line:
- Was souple like a docken | Bout him that day
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A Collection of Scots poems on several occasions [ESTC T163987] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.77-93
- Poem Title:
- The Country Wake, at Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A Collection of Scots poems on several occasions [N19399] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.82-98
- Poem Title:
- The Country Wake, at Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A Collection of Scots poems on several occassions [different setting than ESTC N19399] [ESTC T151030] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.82-98
- Poem Title:
- The Country Wake, at Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A choice collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands [T84147] [Part I]
- Page No(s):
- 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
- Title:
- A choise collection of comic and serious Scots poems, both ancient and modern by several hands [T84146] [Part I]
- Page No(s):
- 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
- Title:
- Poems in the Scottish dialect by several celebrated poets [T85039]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[1]-7
- Poem Title:
- Christ's Kirk on the Green.
- Attribution:
- by K. James I. of Scotland [title-page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- James I of Scotland
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