Blacklight

Was never in Scotland heard or seen

DMI number:
34845
First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard or seen
Last Line:
Was souple like a docken | Bout him that day
Poem Genre / Form:
Nine-line stanzas, Dialect verse, and Song with refrain
Themes:
Entertainments / pastimes, Fighting / conflict, Rural life, Scotland, and Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
Allan Ramsay
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Works (1945-1974) I: 57-82.
Author:
James I of Scotland
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Authorship discussed, Wood II, pp. 1-2.
Author:
James V of Scotland
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Authorship discussed, Wood II, pp. 1-2.
Related Poems
First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
Last Line:
For he durst ding no other | But them that day
Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of Scots poems on several occasions [ESTC T226409]
Page No(s):
pp.77-93
Poem Title:
The Country Wake, At Christ's Kirk on the Green, 1434.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed