The flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart..
Montgomerie, Alexander,1545?-1598.
Hume, Alexander,1560?-1609.
Polwarth, Patrick Hume,Baron of,-1609.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Laing, David,1793-1878,former owner,StEdNL
Nicol, G.(George),1740?-1828,donor,StEdNL
Drysdale, David,17th century,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh, : Printed by the heires of Andro Hart,,
1629,.
EEBO image id: 180804
EEBO citation id: 54532373
Attributed to both Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth and Alexander Montgomerie. Cf. The poems of Alexander Montgomerie ed. James Cranstoun. Edinburgh, 1887. pp. xxxii-xxxiv. Also attributed to Polwarth's younger brother, Alexander Hume. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.) H3654.
Pages are unnumbered.
In verse.
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
STC (2nd ed.)
Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the front pastedown. Manuscript inscription in pencil on the first flyleaf "David Laing 1820 The Flyting, 2. Edin 1629. Given me by my witty friend George Nicol Esq when in London, last December." Manuscript inscription in pencil, in the same hand, on the second flyleaf "This is the earliest edition of this very singular production which I have been able to discover. That there were one, or more is certain, as an impression in 1621 occurs in the Catalogue of the Harleian[?] Library. The time of its composition, must have been previous to 1584, as, some verses from it, were quoted in that year, by King James VIth in his Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art"; manuscript inscription continues on the third flyleaf "of Poesie' - I have seen another edition, printed in the same year, with the present. The title of which follows, in the next leaf, Although it  is there stated, to be 'newlie corrected and enlarged'--they are the same in every respect. Indeed all the subsequent impressions, profess the same." A slip of paper loosely enclosed between the third and fourth flyleaves with the manuscript inscription "Edw Valune[?] Returned with compliments and many thanks. DL" Manuscript inscription on the title page "Presented to my good Friend Mr David Laing by George Nicol" and "2990". Manuscript inscription on the verso of the final page of text "David Drysdaill" and "finis" in a contemporary hand.
Montgomerie, Alexander, 1545?-1598.
Polwarth, Patrick Hume, Baron of, -1609.