- Index. The
oldest versions are
Scottish and
include the
Scots poem "Quhy
Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be". In 1782, the
Scottish poet
Robert Burns published...
- "Quhy
Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be" ("Why
Should Not
Allan Honoured Be?") is an
anonymous allegorical poem of the
fifteenth or
sixteenth century written...
-
Scottismennis leid" ('all true Scotsmen's language') and
telling Dunbar "in
Ingland sowld [should] be thy habitation". The
salient point is that, from a
Lothian perspective...
- Said Allan's Soldier." The post-script is
similar to that of the poem Quhy
Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be,
which is also
found in the
Bannatyne M****cript...
- wife
observes the
chaos wrought by her husband. Scho fand all
wrang that
sowld bene richt, I trow the man
thocht richt grit schame,
After a
quarrel the...
-
three of us here?" Now, quod God, heir a mervell, how can this be, That I
sowld want my gowly, and we heir bot thre? The
Highlander does not
reply but,...
-
First Helandman of God Was Maid, "Christis Kirk On The Green" and Quhy
Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be.
Three poems in this
section address specific women:...
- for to fle. And
quhen that he did mont on he, All
fowill ferleit quhat he
sowld be, That evir did on him luke. Sum held he had bene Dedalus, Sum the Menatair...
-
attention to his lack of identity; "all
fowill ferleit (wondered)
quhat he
sowld be" as an imposter. A late 17th
century carpenter's bill for work at Stirling...
