Chapter 46

[182]forgot.[183]by the word of.[184]bondage.[185]pleasant lives.[186]purveyance, management.[187]she could get no settlement.[188]She marched.[189]overbearingly ordered her.[190]entrance.[191]With one counsel, unanimously.[192]greatly abused.[193]hence.[194]sighing.[195]news.[196]weak.[197]cast wide their doors.[198]South of.[199]lament.[200]A convent founded on the Burgh-muir by the Countess of Caithness for Dominican nuns of the reformed order of St. Catherine of Sienna, from whom the place got its name of Siennes or Sheens.[201]armed.[202]a cannon braced up in hoops.[203]hard blows.[204]storm.[205]artillery.[206]dwelling.[207]assuredly.[208]choosing.[209]Without.[210]reckless.[211]blame.[212]door.[213]preaching.[214]leapers over wall.[215]innocent.[216]gourmand.[217]trucksters.[218]Lay, unlearned.[219]court-following.[220]waiting.[221]thirst.[222]skill.[223]gamester.[224]fell vacant.[225]law.[226]parson.[227]lose.[228]wish.[229]worthy.[230]coarse white woollen.[231]Laying hold.[232]crimson cloth.[233]meniver, marten, grey, and rich ermine furs.[234]pain.[235]fringes.[236]trappings.[237]hurt.[238]each.[239]athwart.[240]by the time that.[241]if I lie.[242]Raven.Fr.corbeau.[243]Overman.[244]Owl.[245]mantle.[246]pure eyes.[247]Bat.[248]burnished.[249]Cuckoo.[250]ivory.[251]without doubt.[252]rose-red, purple, and cinnabar.[253]labour.[254]liver and lung.[255]seize.[256]must from.[257]the woods hoar.[258]sting and shock.[259]death.[260]pungent.[261]to pull and tear.[262]gluttonlike.[263]reach.[264]the lot,lit.128 lb. weight.[265]beshrew, curse.[266]that sad dividing.[267]let me stretch a rope,i.e.let me hang for it.[268]Complain.[269]smothered.[270]clutched in his claw.[271]the rest.[272]Beseeching.[273]composition.[274]to be put forward.[275]quire, book.[276]worth.[277]kindred.[278]forswear.[279]learn.[280]This burlesque is said to have been written for the entertainment of the court upon occasion of the home-coming of Mary of Loraine in 1538. As the “Dreme” had been a political satire, and the “Testament of the Papyngo” a satire upon church abuses, this, like the “Contemptioun of Syde Taillis,” was a satire on a social fashion. Chalmers mentions an anterior English poem, “The Turnament of Tottenham, or the wooing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe, the Reeve’s daughter,” printed in Percy’sReliques, as a similar burlesque upon the custom of the tourney; but an example nearer home is to found in Dunbar’s “Justis betuix the Tailyour and the Sowtar.” Watsoun and Barbour were, according to the Treasurer’s Accounts, actual personages in the royal household.[281]banneret, a knight made in the field.[282]physician.[283]surgeon.[284]Bent old women he would cause.[285]gallantly waved.[286]hawkers.[287]distaffs.[288]by my livelihood.[289]the heavens.[290]by the altar.[291]running, course.[292]hurt.[293]three aimed strokes.[294]wreaked.[295]ere.[296]match.[297]reached him a blow.[298]struck.[299]in truth.[300]speak.[301]gloves.[302]know.[303]separate.[304]by the time that.[305]belongings.[306]Praise.[307]wished.[308]grave.[309]modest.[310]examine.[311]goods.[312]stole.[313]enquire.[314]played with.[315]know.[316]I know not.[317]The writings of the Reformers were, before 1560, printed in England and on the Continent. The Bible, in particular, was for this reason known as “the English Book.”[318]know.[319]“Sir” was by courtesy the ordinary title of churchmen.[320]hap, event.[321]the third of a penny.[322]Though.[323]much.[324]kindred.[325]each day.[326]cause.[327]Afterwards.[328]by heart.[329]“five and six,” terms in dice play.[330]Collars.[331]coals.[332]lard.[333]grains.[334]handfuls.[335]without.[336]own.[337]dream.[338]deceive.[339]entice.[340]to make stout and strong.[341]describe.[342]Perhaps the ill-natured rhetorician mentioned by Virgil,Eclogues, v. and vii.[343]belly.[344]The hero of the romance of which this forms the most important episode, was an actual contemporary of Lyndsay, some of whose romantic adventures are referred to by Pitscottie in hisHistory, p. 129. Upon the conclusion of his youthful adventures Meldrum settled in Kinross, where he owned the estate of Cleish and Binns; and being appointed deputy of Patrick, Lord Lyndsay, Sheriff of Fife, is said to have administered physic as well as law to his neighbours.[345]Henry VIII. lay at Calais in July, 1513.[346]array.[347]Making war.[348]pikes.[349]this news.[350]view, visit.[351]chose.[352]host.[353]champion.[354]go.[355]Throughout.[356]Readers of Wyntoun’sCronykilwill remember that in the description of the great tournament at Berwick in 1338 it is a knight of the same name, Sir Richard Talbot, who is defeated in somewhat similar fashion by Sir Patrick Græme. SeeEarly Scottish Poetry, p. 173.[357]tokens of war.[358]caused be made.[359]fight.[360]a valiant warrior.[361]To-morrow.[362]words, boasts.[363]a small piece of straw.[364]gone astray.[365]strong.[366]such practice.[367]afraid.[368]storm.

[182]forgot.

[183]by the word of.

[184]bondage.

[185]pleasant lives.

[186]purveyance, management.

[187]she could get no settlement.

[188]She marched.

[189]overbearingly ordered her.

[190]entrance.

[191]With one counsel, unanimously.

[192]greatly abused.

[193]hence.

[194]sighing.

[195]news.

[196]weak.

[197]cast wide their doors.

[198]South of.

[199]lament.

[200]A convent founded on the Burgh-muir by the Countess of Caithness for Dominican nuns of the reformed order of St. Catherine of Sienna, from whom the place got its name of Siennes or Sheens.

[201]armed.

[202]a cannon braced up in hoops.

[203]hard blows.

[204]storm.

[205]artillery.

[206]dwelling.

[207]assuredly.

[208]choosing.

[209]Without.

[210]reckless.

[211]blame.

[212]door.

[213]preaching.

[214]leapers over wall.

[215]innocent.

[216]gourmand.

[217]trucksters.

[218]Lay, unlearned.

[219]court-following.

[220]waiting.

[221]thirst.

[222]skill.

[223]gamester.

[224]fell vacant.

[225]law.

[226]parson.

[227]lose.

[228]wish.

[229]worthy.

[230]coarse white woollen.

[231]Laying hold.

[232]crimson cloth.

[233]meniver, marten, grey, and rich ermine furs.

[234]pain.

[235]fringes.

[236]trappings.

[237]hurt.

[238]each.

[239]athwart.

[240]by the time that.

[241]if I lie.

[242]Raven.Fr.corbeau.

[243]Overman.

[244]Owl.

[245]mantle.

[246]pure eyes.

[247]Bat.

[248]burnished.

[249]Cuckoo.

[250]ivory.

[251]without doubt.

[252]rose-red, purple, and cinnabar.

[253]labour.

[254]liver and lung.

[255]seize.

[256]must from.

[257]the woods hoar.

[258]sting and shock.

[259]death.

[260]pungent.

[261]to pull and tear.

[262]gluttonlike.

[263]reach.

[264]the lot,lit.128 lb. weight.

[265]beshrew, curse.

[266]that sad dividing.

[267]let me stretch a rope,i.e.let me hang for it.

[268]Complain.

[269]smothered.

[270]clutched in his claw.

[271]the rest.

[272]Beseeching.

[273]composition.

[274]to be put forward.

[275]quire, book.

[276]worth.

[277]kindred.

[278]forswear.

[279]learn.

[280]This burlesque is said to have been written for the entertainment of the court upon occasion of the home-coming of Mary of Loraine in 1538. As the “Dreme” had been a political satire, and the “Testament of the Papyngo” a satire upon church abuses, this, like the “Contemptioun of Syde Taillis,” was a satire on a social fashion. Chalmers mentions an anterior English poem, “The Turnament of Tottenham, or the wooing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe, the Reeve’s daughter,” printed in Percy’sReliques, as a similar burlesque upon the custom of the tourney; but an example nearer home is to found in Dunbar’s “Justis betuix the Tailyour and the Sowtar.” Watsoun and Barbour were, according to the Treasurer’s Accounts, actual personages in the royal household.

[281]banneret, a knight made in the field.

[282]physician.

[283]surgeon.

[284]Bent old women he would cause.

[285]gallantly waved.

[286]hawkers.

[287]distaffs.

[288]by my livelihood.

[289]the heavens.

[290]by the altar.

[291]running, course.

[292]hurt.

[293]three aimed strokes.

[294]wreaked.

[295]ere.

[296]match.

[297]reached him a blow.

[298]struck.

[299]in truth.

[300]speak.

[301]gloves.

[302]know.

[303]separate.

[304]by the time that.

[305]belongings.

[306]Praise.

[307]wished.

[308]grave.

[309]modest.

[310]examine.

[311]goods.

[312]stole.

[313]enquire.

[314]played with.

[315]know.

[316]I know not.

[317]The writings of the Reformers were, before 1560, printed in England and on the Continent. The Bible, in particular, was for this reason known as “the English Book.”

[318]know.

[319]“Sir” was by courtesy the ordinary title of churchmen.

[320]hap, event.

[321]the third of a penny.

[322]Though.

[323]much.

[324]kindred.

[325]each day.

[326]cause.

[327]Afterwards.

[328]by heart.

[329]“five and six,” terms in dice play.

[330]Collars.

[331]coals.

[332]lard.

[333]grains.

[334]handfuls.

[335]without.

[336]own.

[337]dream.

[338]deceive.

[339]entice.

[340]to make stout and strong.

[341]describe.

[342]Perhaps the ill-natured rhetorician mentioned by Virgil,Eclogues, v. and vii.

[343]belly.

[344]The hero of the romance of which this forms the most important episode, was an actual contemporary of Lyndsay, some of whose romantic adventures are referred to by Pitscottie in hisHistory, p. 129. Upon the conclusion of his youthful adventures Meldrum settled in Kinross, where he owned the estate of Cleish and Binns; and being appointed deputy of Patrick, Lord Lyndsay, Sheriff of Fife, is said to have administered physic as well as law to his neighbours.

[345]Henry VIII. lay at Calais in July, 1513.

[346]array.

[347]Making war.

[348]pikes.

[349]this news.

[350]view, visit.

[351]chose.

[352]host.

[353]champion.

[354]go.

[355]Throughout.

[356]Readers of Wyntoun’sCronykilwill remember that in the description of the great tournament at Berwick in 1338 it is a knight of the same name, Sir Richard Talbot, who is defeated in somewhat similar fashion by Sir Patrick Græme. SeeEarly Scottish Poetry, p. 173.

[357]tokens of war.

[358]caused be made.

[359]fight.

[360]a valiant warrior.

[361]To-morrow.

[362]words, boasts.

[363]a small piece of straw.

[364]gone astray.

[365]strong.

[366]such practice.

[367]afraid.

[368]storm.

Back to Index Next