Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Satirical poems of the time of the reformation > Volume 2, 1893

NOTES TO BISCHOP OF ST ANDROIS LYFE (168-203). 241
168. Captane Kirkburne. Captain Montgomerie, author of the
‘Cherrie and the Slae,’who resided for a time at Compston Castle,
near Kirkcudbright (Kirkubrie), hence the name Kirkbume. See
Introduction to Montgomerie’s poems, pp. xvi-xix (S.T.S.), and p. 229,
supra. To him whispered or muttered to himself.
173. This forsaid bischope. John Douglas, presented to the see in
February 1572; died 1576.
174. Maister Ihone Wyrome. Winram was Superintendent of Fife
at this time.—‘ Calderwood,’ vol. iii. p. 354. See Poem xliv. 1. 241,
note.
177. He cravit na digniteisprophane. He had no desire to be made
a bishop—a profane dignity in the eyes of the orthodox reformer.
180. He toiled his dussie for a spring= He set about accomplishing
his end by fawning and fair promises. Dussie. See note to 1. 88,
supra. Spring=2i tune ; generally used to denote a tune of a quick
and lively nature. Cf. Douglas—
“The swift Tritones with trump playing thar spring.”
—‘Eneados,’ v., vol. ii. p. 274, 1. 3.
And Lyndsay—
“ Upon the lute
Than playit I twenty spryngis perqueir,
Quhilk wes gret piete for to heir.”
—‘ The Complaynt to the King,’ 11. 92-94.
187. Carlingispett. See Poems viii. 1. 14 and xlvi. 1. 35.
189. Bot fra he was a byschope sty lit. Adamson was presented to the
archbishopric of St Andrews in 1576 (‘Calderwood,’ vol. iii. p. 371),
and his appointment came up for consideration before the thirty-fourth
General Assembly convened at Edinburgh the 1st of April 1577 (ibid.,
P- 378)-
194. Delatouris = deX&ys; an old legal term. Lat. dilatus. See
‘ Skeat,’ s. v. “ Delay.”
202. Willie Vylie. William Wylie. This person is several times
mentioned in the Privy Council Register. In vol. ii. pp. 326, 509, he
is described as a writer, servant to the Regent Morton. On p. 585,
ibid., in a “ Band” by Alexander Forbes, “burges of Abirdene,” dated
at Holyrood, 14th January 1576, he is called “writtar, servand to the
Regentis grace.” On p. 601, ibid., he is again so described in a “ Con¬
tract anent the Cunye,” 5th March 1576.
203. Cubicular=chsjmbtrlzin. Lat. cubicularius.
“ So, sen thy birth, I have continewalye
Bene occupyit, and aye to thy plesoure,
And sumtyme Seware, Coppare, and Carvoure ;
Thy purs maister and secreit Thesaurare,
Thy Yschare aye sen thy natyvitie,
And of thy chalmer cheiffe Cubiculare.”
—Lyndsay, ‘The Dreme,’11. 19-24.