“Unthrift, sweirnes, falset, povertie, and stryfe
Pat polacey in dainger of hir lyfe.”
David Lindsay book The Dreme
The Dreme (c. 1528), line 965
Quotes from bookThe Dreme
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.
