 | John Leyden - Complaynt of Scotlande - 1801 - 692 pages
...bin present in thir dayis, That ballattis breuis lustely, and layis ; Quhilkis to our prince daily thay do present ; Quha can say mair than Schir James Inglis sayis, In ballattis, farsis, and in plesand playis ? Bot Culros hes his pen maid impotent ; Kid, in cunning and... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...Lindsay, in his Prologue to the Papingo, printed in 1538, thus alludes to the same individual: Q hi ia can say mair than Schir James Inglis sayis In ballatis, farsis, and in plesand playis : Bot Culros has his pen maid impotent. How, minister of Perth, a contemporary of Lindsay, mentions, in a... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...in Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, vol. ip 61.— EDIT.] 1 living. u stream. THE HISTORY OF And in the courte bene present in thir dayis, That ballatis brevis" histelie and layis, Quhilkis to our prince daylie tlmy do present. Quha can say mair than schir JAMES... | |
 | William Dunbar - 1834 - 412 pages
...former occupations at Court, insinuates that his opulent Abbacy had suppressed his literary pursuits. And, in the Courte, bene present in thir dayis, That...ballatis brevis lustelie, and layis, Quhilkis till cure Prince daylie thay do present. Quha can say mair than SCHIR JAMES INGLIS sayis In ballatis, farsis,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 600 pages
...is, That ballatis brevis" lustelie and layis, Quhilkis to our prince daylie thay do present. (Julia can say mair than schir JAMES INGLIS sayis In ballatis,...in plesand playis" ? Bot CULROSS haith his pen maid impotent? Kid in cunnyngy and practik rieht prudent. And STEWARD quhilk desyrith ane staitly style... | |
 | David Irving - English poetry - 1861 - 664 pages
...insinuates that his advancement to an abbacy had withdrawn his attention from his poetical studies : Quha can say mair than Schir James Inglis sayis In...in plesand playis ? Bot Culross haith his pen maid impotent.1 James the Fourth, in a letter addressed to a person of the same name, probably the same... | |
 | David Lindsay (of the Mount.) - 1871 - 456 pages
...Of Virgill, quhilk bene consolatioun To cunnyng men, to knaw his gret ingyne, Als weill in naturall science as devyne. And, in the Courte, bene present, in thir dayis, That ballattis brevis lustellie, and layis, Quhilkis tyll our Prince daylie thay do present. Quho can say... | |
 | John Veitch - Scottish ballads and songs - 1878 - 636 pages
...present in thir dayis, That ballads brcvis* lustely, and layis, Quhilkist to our prince dailie they do present, Quha can say mair than Schir James Inglis sayis, In ballatis, farsis,* and in pleasand playis? But Culross has his pen maid impotent." § "This yeire, 1530," says Sir James Balfour,... | |
 | Dialect literature, Scottish - 1912 - 488 pages
...Of Virgill, quhilk bene consolatioun To cunnyng men, to knaw his gret ingyne, Als weill in naturall science as devyne. " And, in the Courte, bene present, in thir dayis, That ballattis brevis lustellie, and layis, Quhilkis tyll our Prince daylie thay do present. Quho can say... | |
 | John Veitch - Scottish poetry - 1893 - 392 pages
...present in thir dayis, That ballatis brevis 2 lustely, and layis, Quhilkis 1 to our prince dailie they do present, Quha can say mair than Schir James Inglis sayis, In ballatis, farsis, 2 and in pleasand playis ? But Culross has his pen maid impotent." 3 "This yeire, 1530," says Sir James... | |
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I say no more, gude Redaris may descryve His worthy workis, in nowmer mo than fyve ; And speciallye, the trew Translatioun Of Virgill, quhilk bene consolatioun To cunnyng men, to knaw his gret ingyne, Als weill in naturall science as devyne. " And, in... 
