LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO., EDINBURGH.

IN COURT, THAT TYME, WAS GUDE SCHIR DAVID LYNDSAY;

IN VULGARE TOUNG, HE BURE THE BELL THAT DAY,

TO MAK METER, RIGHT CUNNING, AND EXPERT.

WORKS

OF

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.

ANE DIALOG

BETWIX

EXPERIENCE AND ANE COURTEOUR.

OF IMAGES USIT AMANG CHRISTIAN MEN.

COURTEOUR.

FATHER, yit ane thing, I wald speir,
Behald, in every kirk,; and queir,
Throuch Christendome, in burgh and land
Imagis, maid with mannis hand:

To quhome bene gevin dyvers names,

Sum Peter, and Paull, sum Joline, and James:
Sanct Peter, carvit with his keyis;

Sanct Michaell, with his wingis and weyis*;

Sanct Katherine, with hir swerd and quheil';

town and country.

2 weights, or scales.

⚫ sword and wheel: The attributes of St. Catherine are the

Ane hynde set up besyde Sanct Geill':
It war to lang, for till discryve

Sanct Francis, with his woundis fyve®.
Sanct Tredwall, als, thare may be sene,
Quhilk, on ane prik, hes baith hir ene3:
Sanct Paull, weill payntit, with ane sworde,
As he wald fecht, at the first worde:
Sanct Apolline, on aultar standis,

With all hir teith intill hir handis1:

instruments of her martyrdom; a half wheel, armed with spikes, and traversed with a bloody sword.

1 St. Giles, the tutelary saint of Edinburgh, chose a hind, for his companion in his cave; having saved her from hunters: Legend has connected this tale with the foundation of the abbey of Holyrood-house: One of the supporters of this city's arms is the kind. Lyndsay, throughout his poems, swears by • Sanct Geith:

St. Francis is fepresented, with wounds five, from his having been elected by. God to hear the similitude of Christ's wounds, which were imprinted in his body.

3 one eyes Speaking of pilgrimages, Lyndsay talks of the people going "To St. Tredwell, to mend their ene.”

+ Of the virgin Apollonia, the legend relates that, when she was seized in Alexandria, to be persecuted for the faith, all her teeth were pulled out, before she threw herself into the sacrilegious fire: She was formerly invoked, for relief from the tooth-ach: And, Lyndsay speaks of the people, running “For their teeth to Sanct Apolline."