Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ond floor. Such is the style or door tobe seen in all these early wooden houses—a style 2s6 OLD AND NEW EDINBl RGH. [Cowgate. which must unhesitatingly be pronounced to besuperior in elegance to almost any other doorsgiven to modern houses either in Edinburgh or inLondon. On a frieze between the mouldings is alegend in a style of lettering and orthography whichspeaks of the close of the fifteenth century :— GIF . YE . DEID . AS . YE . SOULD . YEMYCHT . HAIF . AS . YE . VULD In modern English, If we died as we should, we
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ond floor. Such is the style or door tobe seen in all these early wooden houses—a style 2s6 OLD AND NEW EDINBl RGH. [Cowgate. which must unhesitatingly be pronounced to besuperior in elegance to almost any other doorsgiven to modern houses either in Edinburgh or inLondon. On a frieze between the mouldings is alegend in a style of lettering and orthography whichspeaks of the close of the fifteenth century :— GIF . YE . DEID . AS . YE . SOULD . YEMYCHT . HAIF . AS . YE . VULD In modern English, If we died as we should, we the sacred story, and digested into English , this, however, he had acted as amanuensisto the famous Lord Advocate, Sir George Mac-kenzie of Rosehaugli, and of bluidie memorie;ard in 1699 he edited and published a new folioedition of Sir Georges work on The Laws andCustoms of Scotland, which bears on its title-pagethat it is Printed by the heirs and successors ofMr. Andrew Anderson, printer to the Kings Majesty, for Mr. Andrew Symson, and. COLLEGE WVND ?II a D>^ hy It iiiinin Citannltt^.) might have as we would. There is unfortunatelyno trace of the man who built the house and putupon it this characteristic apophthegm; but it isknown that the upper floors were occupied about(before?) 1700 by the worthy Andro Symson, whohaving been ousted from his charge as an episcopalminister at the Revolution, continued to make aliving here by writing and printing books. Symson had been curate of Kirkinner, in Galloway,a presentation to him by the earl of that tide, andw;is the author of an elaborate work, and mysteriouspoem of great length, issued from his printing-house at the foot of the Horse Wynd, entided,Tripatriarchicor; or thelivesof the three patriarchs,Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, extracted forth of are to be sold by him in the Cowgate, near thefoot of the Hose Wynd, Anno Dom. 1699. The Horse Wynd which once connected theCowgate with the open
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