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NOTES ON THE SONNETS.
i.
First printed as one of the laudatory sonnets prefixed to James VI.'s
Essayes of a Prentise in the Diuine Art of Poesie (1584), and included
by Gillies (1814) and by Arber (1869) in their reprints of James's book.
The author was identified as Thomas Hudson by Ritson, Bibliographica
Poetica (1802), p. 252.
II.
From The Maitland Folio, p. 366 (ed. Craigie (S.T.S. 1919), i., 447).
Printed by Pinkerton, Ancient Scotish Poems (1786), p. 350, by Irving,
Lives of the Scotish Poets (1804), ii., p. 151, and History of Scotish Poetry
(1861), p. 463 ; it is also found in The Maitland Quarto, p. 129a (ed.
Craigie (S.T.S. 1920), p. 263).
III.
From the Drummond MS., F.46, in Edinburgh University Library.
Printed by Irving, History of Scotish Poetry (1861), p. 461, and by
Meikle, The Works of William Fowler (S.T.S. 1912), i., 21. Its theme
is Fowler’s translation of Petrarch’s Trionfi.

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