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See also:SCOTT, See also:ALEXANDER (fl. 1550) , Scottish poet, was probably a See also:Lothian See also:man, but particulars of his origin and of his See also:life are entirely wanting. It is only by gathering together a few scraps of See also:internal See also:evidence that we learn that his poems were written between 1545 and 1568 (the date of the See also:Bannatyne MS., the cnly MS. authority for the See also:text). See also:Allan See also:Ramsay was the first to bring Scott's See also:work to the See also:notice of See also:modern readers, by See also:printing some of the poems in his Ever See also:Green. In a copy of verses ("Some Few of the Contents ") on;,the Bannatyne MS., he thus refers to Scott:
" Licht skirtit lasses, and the girnand wyfe,
See also:Fleming and See also:Scot haif painted to the lyfe.
Scot, sweit tunged Scot, quha sings the welcum hame To See also:Mary, our maist bony soverane See also:dame;
How lyflie he and amorous See also:Stuart sing!
Quhen lufe and bewtie bid them spred the wing."
The See also:sketch is just, for Scott's poems See also:deal chiefly with See also:female See also:character and with See also:passion of a strongly erotic type. He is " sweit tunged," for his technique is always See also:good, and his lyrical See also:measures show remarkable accomplishment. In this respect he holds his own with the best of the " makars" represented in the Bannatyne MS. In what may appear excessive coarseness to See also:present-See also:day See also:taste, he makes good claim to See also:rival See also:Dunbar and his contemporaries. The poems referred to by Ramsay are "Ane Ballat maid to the Derisioun and Scorne of Wantoun Wemen," " Ane New Yeir See also:Gift to the See also:Queen Mary quhen scho come first Hame, 1562," and some or all of his amorous songs (about 30 in number). Of these " To luve unluvit," " Ladeis, be See also:war," and " Lo, quhat it is to lufe " are favourable examples of his See also:style. No See also:early Scots poet comes nearer the quality of the See also:Caroline love-lyric. His Justing and Debait vp at the See also:Drum betwix W [illiam] Adamsone and Johine Sym follows the See also:literary tradition of Peblis to the See also:Play and Christis See also:Kirk on the Grene. He has See also:left See also:verse-renderings of the 1st and 5oth See also:Psalms.
The first collected edition was printed by D. See also:Laing in 1821; a second was issued privately at See also:Glasgow in 1882. The latest edition is that by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Cranstoun (Scottish Text Society, I vol., 1896).
(G. G.
End of Article: SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
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