Bibliographical Note on the Verses

CHAP.

III.

The Funeral dirge on King Gorice XI.

William Dunbar (late 15th century) "Lament for the Makaris: quhen he wes seik."

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Lampoon on Gro

Epigram in memory of William Parrie, "a capital traitor," executed for treason in 1584: quoted by Holinshed.

IV.

Prophecy concerning the last three Kings of the house of Gorice in Carcë

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VII.

Song in praise of Prezmyra

Thomas Carew (1598-1639).

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Corund's Song of the Chine

"An Antidote against Melancholy" (1661).

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Corsus's "Whene'er I bib the wine down"

Anacreonta xxv.; transl. from the Greek, E. R. E.

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Corsus's other ditties

From the "Roxburgh Ballads" (collected 1774).

IX.

Mivarsh's staves on Salapanta

Herrick (1591-1674), "Hesperides."

XV.

Prezmyra's song of Lovers.

Donne (1573-1631)

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Corinius's love ditty: "What an Ass is he"

"Merry Drollerie" (1691).

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Corinius's song on his Mistress

Ibid.

XVI.

Laxus's Serenade

Anacreonta ii.; transl. from the Greek, E. R. E.

XVII.

March of Corsus's veterans

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XXII.

Mevrian's ballad of the Ravens

Old Ballad: "The Three Ravens."

XXIV.

Mevrian's quotation on the asbeston stone.

Robert Greene (156092), "Alphonsus, King of Arragon."

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XXX.

Gro's serenade to Prezmyra.

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), verses to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.

XXXI.

Prophecy concerning conjuring

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XXXIII.

Lines quoted by Queen Sophonisba on the fall of Witchland

Webster (beginning of 17th century); The Duchess of Malfi," Act V. v.

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Queen Sophonisba's Sonnet

Shakespeare, Sonnet xviii.