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David Lyndsay
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“Unthrift, sweirnes, falset, povertie, and stryfe Pat polacey in dainger of hir lyfe.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) first seen 1528 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dreme (c. 1528), line 965
“That nicht he sleipit never ane wink, Bot still did on the Ladie think.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) first seen 1550 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Historie of ane Nobil and Wailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum (1550), line 899
“Quhowbeit that divers devote cunnyng Clerkis In Latyne toung hes wryttin syndrie bukis, Our unlernit knawis lytill of thare werkis, More than thay do the rauyng of the Rukis. Quharefore to Colyearis, Cairtaris, & to Cukis, To Jok and Thome, my Ryme sall be diractit, With cunnyng men quhowbeit it wylbe lactit.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) first seen 1554 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld (1554), line 545
“Quhen the Sonne is at the hycht, Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht, The schaddow of that hydduous strength Sax myle and more it is of lenth. Thus maye ye Juge, in to your thocht, Gyfe Babilone be heych, or nocht.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, line 1752
“Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heir entirs Flattery new landit owt of France”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brother Wantonness, what thinks thou? Yon are the Three Estates I trow Gangand backwart.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solace, lines 2023-20281599-1601
“Sir, I wald speir at ȝow ane questioun. Behauld sum Prelats of this Regioun: Manifestlie during thair lustie lyvfis, Thay swyfe Ladies, Madinis and vther mens wyfis. And sa thair cunts thay haue in consuetude. Quhidder say ȝe that law is evill or gude?”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pauper, lines 2023-2028
“Ere I depart this natioun, I shall mak Reformatioun!”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e; For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. * * * Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-arms!”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Walter Scott Marmion (1808) Canto 4, st. 7.
“Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness…maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Gordon The Discipline of Letters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946) p. 91.
“He usually lacks the originality of Henryson and the brilliance of Dunbar and Douglas. But what there is of him is good all through.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. S. Lewis English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954) p. 100.