Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ancing to pipe music. HigMand dress with belted plaid. Dancing to pipe music is a Scotch custom at least asold as the days of James the Fourth. It is a custom whichstill prevails in Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Scotland. Dunbar in his Testament of Kennedy throws somelight upon the manners and customs of Carrick, a Celticdistrict of Ayrshire. He makes a brother churchman,^Yith whom he held poetic jousts, desire that no priestsmay sing over his grave. Bot a bag-pyp to play a spring,Et unum alewisp ante me ;Insteid of torchis, for to bringQua
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ancing to pipe music. HigMand dress with belted plaid. Dancing to pipe music is a Scotch custom at least asold as the days of James the Fourth. It is a custom whichstill prevails in Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Scotland. Dunbar in his Testament of Kennedy throws somelight upon the manners and customs of Carrick, a Celticdistrict of Ayrshire. He makes a brother churchman,^Yith whom he held poetic jousts, desire that no priestsmay sing over his grave. Bot a bag-pyp to play a spring,Et unum alewisp ante me ;Insteid of torchis, for to bringQuatuor lagenas cervisi^e. s» OSSIAN TRADITIOXS, WRITINGS, ETC. Within the graif to set sic thing, In niodum crucis juxta me,To fle the feyndis than hardely sing De terra plasmasti me. So the j)oet knew the sound of the bag-j)yp, andthought it an instrument fit to fle the feyndis, as manylowlanders do still, but it was the music which a beer-drinking chiu-chman would delight to hear playing aspring. It seems that beer, iiot tch/shjj was old Scotch From a set of woodcuts. Dress about the time of Henry VIII. Itseems that about this time bagpipes Avere known in the south. In acurious Dance of Death, under which Latin texts are printed, is thefigure sketched above, Avhich is dancing with a jester who has the ton-sure of a priest. Death here seems to wear a sort of kilt. In other cutshe is playing on a violoncello, and on something like a dulcimer, andthen he is othermse dressed. In the garden of Eden he is naked. 1501. OSSIAN TRADITIONS, WRITINGS, ETC. 59 Caxtons press set up at AYestminster. ^*^- First book printed in England. -^*^*- About this time, the beginning of the sixteenth century, Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld, inscribed a poem to James the Fourth, and wrote— I saw Raf Coilyear with his thrawin brow, 4 Craibit Johne the Eeif and auld Cowkellpis sow, And how the wran came out of Ailysay,And Peirs Plewman that maid his workmen few,Greit Gowmacmorne and Fyn MaCoul
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