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INTRODUCTION.
G. An anonymous edition was printed at Glasgow in
1825. This is a mere reprint of Tytler, as is expressly
stated. “The King’s Quair was edited by W. Tytler, at
Edinburgh, in 1783. In this new edition the editors have
scrupulously followed the original printed one mentioned
above.” The reprint includes Tytler’s Dissertation on the
Scottish Music, and some Remarks on the Scottish Lan¬
guage; as well as a version of Peblis to the Play (p. 195),
which is not included in Tytler’s book, and a version of
Christ’s Kirk of the Greene (p. 213), which Tytler edited
with the King’s Quair. For the reader who desires to see
Tytler’s edition, and is unable to obtain it, this Glasgow
reprint is almost as good as the old edition.
H. In “Specimens of English Literature from 1394 to
I579,” edited by me in 1871, I gave a small portion of
The Kingis Quair—viz., st. 152-173, numbered as in the
present edition. I mention the fact, because this portion
was edited directly from the MS., and necessarily agrees
throughout with that portion of the poem as it appears in
the present volume. The only variation is in the use of
italic th to represent the_y, or rather the ill-written >, of the
MS.; in the present volume, it seemed to me sufficient to
leave the “ th ” in roman letters, as there is no instance where
the use of it leads to doubt. In the edition next mentioned,
my work was ignored.
/. “The Poetical Remains of King James the First of
Scotland, with a Memoir, &c. By the Rev. C. Rogers,
LL.D., F.S.A. Scot., Historiographer to the Royal Histor¬
ical Society. Edinburgh: printed for the Editor. 1873.”
This edition was limited to 150 copies only. There is a
copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. “ In the present
work,” says the editor, “ the versions of Chalmers and Tyt-