[The tua mariit wemen and the wedo].
Dunbar, William,1460?-1520?
Chepman, Walter,1473?-1538?
Myllar, Androw,active 1503-1508.
[Rouen? : A. Myllar,
c.1505-7].
One of eleven black-letter tracts printed for Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, bound together to form the volume known as "The Chepman and Myllar prints".
A tract containing four poems by or ascribed to Dunbar: The tua mariit wemen and the wedo; Lament for the makars (or Timor mortis conturbat me) on p. [17] beginning "I yat in heill vves and gladnes"; Kynd Kittok on p. [20] beginning "My gudame wes a gay wif bot scho wes ryght gend"; and The testament for Mr Andro Kennedy (or The tesment of Maister Andro Kennedy) on p. [21] beginning "I maist[er] andro kennedy".
Imperfect: wanting the first two leaves.
There is no colophon or indication of printer, place and date, this tract was probably printed abroad [i.e. Rouen] for Androw Myllar between 1505 and 1507. cf. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950) pp. xiv-xv and A.A. MacDonald "Alliterative poetry and its context: the case of William Dunbar" in "Loyal letters: studies in mediaeval alliterative poetry and prose" (Groningen, 1994).
A facsimile can be found in W. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950), and a facsimile of a complete version reconstructed from the text of the Maitland MS can be found in "The knightly tale of Golagrus and Gawane and other ancient poems" D. Laing's type-facsimile of the Chepman and Myllar prints, published in 1827.
Tua mariit wemen and the wedo -- Lament for the makars -- Kynd kittok -- Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy.
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Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
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