“On ilk beugh till embrace Writtin in a bill was O Dowglass, O Dowglass Tender and trewe!”

The Buke of the Howlat (c. 1450), Stanza xxxi. The allegorical poem of The Howlat was composed about the mid-fifteenth century, and printed by the Bannatyne Club, 1823.

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