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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION— PAGE
1. Parentage and Abode of Alexander Scott, . . . vii
2. Profession, ....... viii
3. Married Life, ....... x
4. His Period, ....... xi
5. Scott as a Poet, ....... xiii
6. Opinions of earlier Writers on Scott as a Poet, . . . xv
7. Scott’s Place among Scottish Poets, .... xviii
8. Editions of the Poems, . . . . . . xviii
poems—
1. Ane New 3eir Gift to the Ouene Mary, quhen scho come first
Hame, 1562, ....... 1
2. Ffollowis the Justing and Debait vp at the Drum betuix Wa
Adamsone and lohine Sym, ..... 9
3. The slicht Remeid of Luve, ..... 16
4. Ane Ballat maid to the Derisioun and Scorne of wantoun
Wemen, ....... 19
5. Of May, ........ 23
6. [Luve preysis but Comparesone], . . . .26
7. [Hence, Hairt, with hir that most departe], . . .28
8. [Haif Hairt in Hairt, Je Hairt of Hairtis haill], . . 30
9. The Anschir to Hairtis, . . . . . .31
10. [Quha is perfyte], ...... 33
11. [It cumis Jow Luvaris to be laill], . . . .36
12. [I wilbe plane], ....... 38
13. [Only to Jow in Erd that I lufe best], . . . .41
14. [Rycht as the Glass bene thirlit thrucht with Bemis], . . 43
!5. [Vp, helsum Hairt], ...... 44