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“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 Lindsay

C. S. Lewis English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954) p. 100.
Criticism

“Unthrift, sweirnes, falset, povertie, and stryfe
Pat polacey in dainger of hir lyfe.”

David Lindsay book The Dreme

The Dreme (c. 1528), line 965

“Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness…maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.”

David Lindsay

George Gordon The Discipline of Letters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946) p. 91.
Criticism

“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 Lindsay

Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld (1554), line 545

“That nicht he sleipit never ane wink,
Bot still did on the Ladie think.”

David Lindsay

The Historie of ane Nobil and Wailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum (1550), line 899

“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 Lindsay

Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, line 1752

David Lindsay Quotes

“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 Lindsay

Sir Walter Scott Marmion (1808) Canto 4, st. 7.
Criticism

Age , Home , Rage

“And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e;
For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine
Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.”

David Lindsay

Source: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Lines 3720-3722

Hell

“Ere I depart this natioun, I shall mak Reformatioun! (in Scottish)”

David Lindsay

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Divine Correctioun

“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 guide?
(in Scottish)”

David Lindsay

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Pauper, lines 2023-2028

Law , Evil , Men

“Brother Wantonness, what thinks thou?
Yon are the Three Estates I trow
Gangand backwart.
(in Scottish)”

David Lindsay

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Solace, lines 2023-20281599-1601

Thinking

“Heir entirs Flattery new landit owt of France. (in Scottish)”

David Lindsay

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Stage direction, line 601

“Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king. (in Scottish)”

David Lindsay

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Stage direction, line 326

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