With many a bolde baron

The grehounde wolde neuer awaye
By nyght nor yet by daye

But on the grounde he dyde dye."

Lyndsay.

Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lion King at Arms under James V., was born about 1490, and became page and playmate to that king, born in 1512. He was a severe satirist of the times, and particularly of the clergy: a reformer, a poet, and ambassador to Charles V. and other sovereigns. Lyndsay would deserve respect were it only for his sentiment, written too by a man in office and at that period:

James ever protected him, and was "studious to enforce the payment of his pension even while his own means were few and power little."

The Complaynt of Basche, the King's Hound, was composed during 1536. This dog was bred by Gordon of Pittarie; and presented to the king by his nephew the Earl of Huntly, son of Margaret a natural daughter of James IV., and the master of Huntly.'

1 Sir David Lindsay's Works. By G. Chalmers. 1806.

"THE COMPLAYNT

and

PUBLICT CONFESSIOUN

of

The Kingis Auld Hound, callit

BAGSCHE,

Directit to Bawte, the Kingis Best Belovit Dog,
and His Companzeonis.

Maid at command of King James the Fyft, be Schir
David Lyndesay, of the Mont, Knycht, alias
Lyoun King of Armes.

8 I thought I had so much influence, that I never dreaded necessity.