[745] Orlando Furioso, canto xiii., stanzas 8 and 9.
[746] Sibbald’s Chronicle of Scottish Poetry.
[747] Irving’s History of Scottish Poetry, p. 145.
[748] The failure of Dunbar, Asloan, and Lyndsay to mention James I. upon the strength of “The Kingis Quair” may be accounted for by the situation of that poem, the only copy now known to exist being that contained in the Selden MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. No such argument can account for the overlooking of popular pieces like “Christis Kirk” and “Peblis to the Play” had they been then in existence.
[749] In “Christis Kirk” occur the expressions—
“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...
Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...
Bet on with barrow trammis;”
and in “The Justyng” we find—
“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...