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The Dreme

David Lindsay

The Dreme is a poem written in 1528 by Scottish herald and poet David Lyndsay. It is his earliest surviving poem, and is an allegorical lament on the misgovernment of the realm.

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

David Lindsay book The Dreme

The Dreme (c. 1528), line 965

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