To speik of gifts or almous deids
- DMI number:
- 10930
- First Line:
- To speik of gifts or almous deids
- Last Line:
- To sum richt skant of grace to gyde | In giving suld discration be
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Admonition, Dialect verse, Song with refrain, and Quintain / quintet aabab
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Charity, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- William Dunbar
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bawcutt (1998) I: 144-146.
- First Line:
- To speik of gift or almous deidis
- Last Line:
- That he na wit hes thame to gyd | In geving sould discretioun be
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T143032]
- Page No(s):
- p.84-87
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Giving.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol II] [ESTC T144558]
- Page No(s):
- p.84-87
- Poem Title:
- Discration in Giving.
- Attribution:
- Poems on pp. 82-89 attributed on p. 89 with 'The foregoing three quod Mr. Wm. Dunbar.'
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
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