[585] This MS., by the older writers on Bellenden, is called sometimes the “Carmichael Collection,” from the name of the owner who lent it to Allan Ramsay, sometimes the “Hyndford MS.,” from John, third Earl of Hyndford, who presented it to the Advocates’ Library. This difference of appellation has not lessened the confusion hitherto involving the poet and his work.
[586] The prohemes from the translation of Boece, after being copied in part by Bannatyne in his MS., were included in Ramsay’s Evergreen and in Sibbald’s Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. The prologue to Livy was printed first by Dr. Leyden in the dissertation prefixed to his edition of The Complaynt of Scotland.
[587] From dark.
[588] Above.
[589] valued.
[590] could.
[591] unworthy.
[592] Till.
[593] harried.
[594] though.