[ [260] Op. cit., p. lxix.
[ [261] Ibid., p. 15-16.
[ [262] Op. cit., p. 39.
[ [263] "In the Muses' Welcome to King James, printed at Edinburgh in 1618, folio, the royal visitor greeted his Scottish subjects with a string of punning rhymes on the names of certain learned professors, which some of them were sagacious enough to turn into Latin. As a sample of the literary taste which prevailed at this academic visitation, these quibbling verses on the name of the college disputants are here subjoined:—
As Adam was the first of men, whence all beginning tak So Adam-son was president, and first man in this act. The theses Fair-lie did defend, which though they lies contain, Yet were fair-lies and he the same right fairlie did maintain. The field first entred master Sands, and there he made me see That not all Sands are barren sands, but that some fertile bee. Then master Young most subtilie the theses did impugne, And kythed old in Aristotle, although his name bee Young. To him succeeded master Reid, who though reid be his name Neids neither for his disput blush, nor of his speach think shame. Last entred master King the lists, and dispute like a King How reason reigning as a queene should anger underbring. To their deserved praise have I thus played upon their names; And wills their colledge hence be called the Colledge of King James." —Horace Walpole, Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, Edit. 1806, vol. i, p. 125.
—THE INVASION OF AILSA CRAIG—
[ [264] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. xlix, No. 51. Robert Bowes to Lord Burghley.
[ [265] Calderwood, Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. v, pp. 192, 193.
[ [266] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. l, No. 30. Bowes to Burghley.
[ [267] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. i, No. 62.