. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. was acquaintedwith all the witts of his time in England.*Sir Robert was essentially a court poet,and belonged to the cultivated circle ofScottish favorites that James gatheredaround him; yet there is no mention of him in the gossipy diariesof the period, and almost none in the State papers. He seems, how-ever, to have been popular: Ben Jonson boasts that Aytoun «lovedme dearly.» It is not surprising that his mild verses should havefaded in the glorious light of the contemporary poets. He wrote in Greek and French, and many of his La
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. was acquaintedwith all the witts of his time in England.*Sir Robert was essentially a court poet,and belonged to the cultivated circle ofScottish favorites that James gatheredaround him; yet there is no mention of him in the gossipy diariesof the period, and almost none in the State papers. He seems, how-ever, to have been popular: Ben Jonson boasts that Aytoun «lovedme dearly.» It is not surprising that his mild verses should havefaded in the glorious light of the contemporary poets. He wrote in Greek and French, and many of his Latin poemswere published under the title Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum> (Amster-dam, 1637). His English poems on such themes as a <The Poet Forsaken,* <The Lovers Remonstrance,* <Address to anInconstant Mistress,* etc., do not show depth of emotion. He says ofhimself:— «Yet have I been a lover by report. Yea, I have died for love as others do; But praised be God, it was in such a sort That I revived within an hour or two.**. Robert Aytoun ROBERT AYTOUN IIO- The lines beginning WI do confess thourt smooth and fair,quoted below with their adaptation by Burns, do not appear in hisMSS., collected by his heir Sir John Aytoun, nor in the edition ofhis works with a memoir prepared by Dr. Charles Rogers, publishedin Edinburgh in 1844 and reprinted privately in 1871. Dean Stanley,in his Memorials of Westminster Abbey,* accords to him the originalof {Auld Lang Syne, which Rogers includes in his edition. Burnsssong follows the version attributed to Francis Temple. Aytoun passed his entire life in luxury, died in Whitehall Palacein 1638, and was the first Scottish poet buried in Westminster memorial bust was taken from a portrait by Vandyke. INCONSTANCY UPBRAIDED I loved thee once, Ill love no more;Thine be the grief as is the blame:Thou art not what thou wast before,What reason I should be the same ?He that can love unloved again,Hath better store of love than brain
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