. The poems of William Dunbar : now first collected . VOLUME BY WILLIAM THE THRISSILL AND THE 3. T the conclusion of thisbeautiful and interestingpoem, Dunbar informs usthat it was written on theninth of May [1503], nearthree months before thearrival of the PrincessMargaret in Scotland. Hernuptials with James theFourth were celebrated at Holyrood, August 8th,1503. But the Poet had visited England at the endof 1501, and had probably remained to witness the Cancels, which took place January 25th, 1502. For the preservation of this poem we are solely in-debted to G
. The poems of William Dunbar : now first collected . VOLUME BY WILLIAM THE THRISSILL AND THE 3. T the conclusion of thisbeautiful and interestingpoem, Dunbar informs usthat it was written on theninth of May [1503], nearthree months before thearrival of the PrincessMargaret in Scotland. Hernuptials with James theFourth were celebrated at Holyrood, August 8th,1503. But the Poet had visited England at the endof 1501, and had probably remained to witness the Cancels, which took place January 25th, 1502. For the preservation of this poem we are solely in-debted to George Bannatyne, from whose MS. it wasfirst published by Allan Ramsay in The Evergreen,in 1724. He introduces it with these lines:The Thistle and the Rose, Oer flowers and herbage green,By Lady Nature chose Brave King and lovely Queen. 212 NOTES. • The Thris9il and Rois has been ably illustrated byLord Hailes, in his volume of selections from Ban-natynes Manuscript, entitled Ancient ScottishPoems, Edinburgh, 1770, 12mo. This is a poem (he says) of acknowledged merit:Every reader will r
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