. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. nd than for him; for the nobility, clergie,and above all, the gentrey and comons, bedoued hescoffin for 17 dayes space with riuoletts of teares.[Annals of Scotland, vol. i. p. 77.] The oldestspecimen of the Scottish language known to be inexistence is a sort of monody, written on thedeath of Alexander, which has been preserved byWinton: Quhen Alysandyr, cure kyng, wes dede,That Scotland led in luwe and le,Away wes sons of ale and brede,Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. nd than for him; for the nobility, clergie,and above all, the gentrey and comons, bedoued hescoffin for 17 dayes space with riuoletts of teares.[Annals of Scotland, vol. i. p. 77.] The oldestspecimen of the Scottish language known to be inexistence is a sort of monody, written on thedeath of Alexander, which has been preserved byWinton: Quhen Alysandyr, cure kyng, wes dede,That Scotland led in luwe and le,Away wes sons of ale and brede,Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gold wes changyd into lede.—Christ, liom in-to virgynyte,Succour Scotland, and stad is in perplexyte. Winton, vol. i. p. 401. The death of Alexander, so disastrous to Scot-land, is said to have been foretold, the day previous,to the earl of March, who was one of the chiefs ofthe English faction during Alexanders minority,at his castle of Dunbar, by Thomas of Ercildon,commonly called Thomas the Rhymer. On thenight preceding the kings death, Thomas havingarrived at the castle, was jocularly asked by the. m^.
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