The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2. Virgil

CRAIG, ESQ. TREASURER.

       WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.

       GEORGE CRANSTOUN, ESQ.

       JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.

       GEORGE DUNDAS, ESQ.

       RIGHT HON. W. DUNDAS, LORD CLERK REGISTER.

       LORD DUNFERMLINE.

       LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.

       SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE FERGUSSON, BART.

       ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ.

       GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON.

       COUNT MERCER DE FLAHAULT.

       HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON.

       WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ.

       ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ.

       LORD GRAY.

       RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE.

       THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.

       THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON.

       ED. W.A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ.

       SIR THOMAS BUCHAN HEPBURN, BART.

       JAMES MAITLAND HOG, ESQ.

       LORD HOLLAND.

       JOHN HOPE, ESQ., DEAN OF FACULTY.

       COSMO INNES, ESQ.

       DAVID IRVING, LL.D.

       JAMES IVORY, ESQ., SOLICITOR-GENERAL.

       SIR HENRY JARDINE.

       HON. FRANCIS JEFFREY, LORD JEFFREY.

       JOHN GARDINER KINNEAR, ESQ.

       THE EARL OF KINNOULL.

       DAVID LAING, ESQ., SECRETARY.

       THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.

       REV. JOHN LEE, D.D.

       ALEXANDER WELLESLEY LEITH, ESQ.

       LORD LINDSAY.

       JAMES LOCH, ESQ.

       LORD LOVAT.

       THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.

       ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ.

       WILLIAM MACDOWALL, ESQ.

       HON. J.H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE.

       JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ.

       JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE, ESQ.

       WILLIAM FORBES MACKENZIE, ESQ.

       JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.

       THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.

       VISCOUNT MELVILLE.

       WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.

       THE EARL OF MINTO.

       HON. SIR J.W. MONCREIFF, BART., LORD MONCREIFF.

       HON. SIR JOHN A. MURRAY, LORD MURRAY.

       WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.

       MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ.

       SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE.

       LORD PANMURE.

       HENRY PETRIE, ESQ.

       SIR THOMAS PHILLIPS, BART.

       EDWARD PIPER, ESQ.

       ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.

       ALEXANDER PRINGLE, ESQ.

       JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ.

       THE EARL OF ROSEBERY.

       RIGHT HON. A. RUTHERFURD, LORD ADVOCATE.

       THE EARL OF SELKIRK.

       JAMES SKENE, ESQ.

       WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ.

       THE EARL SPENCER.

       JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ.

       EDWARD STANLEY, ESQ.

       MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOSEPH STRATON.

       THE HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART.

       THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.

       ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ.

       WALTER C. TREVELYAN, ESQ.

       DAWSON TURNER, ESQ.

       ADAM URQUHART, ESQ.

       RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART.

       THE VEN. ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

      HEYR BEGYNNYS

       THE WARK OF VIRGYLL PRYNCE OF LATYN POETIS

       IN HYS TWELF BUKIS OF ENEADOS

       COMPILIT AND TRANSLATIT FURTH OF LATYN

       IN OUR SCOTTIS LANGAGE

       BY ANE RICHT NOBILL AND WIRSCHIPFULL CLERK

       MASTER GAWYN DOWGLAS

       PROVEST OF SANCT GYLYS KYRK IN EDINBURGH

       AND PERSON OF LYNTOUN IN LOUTHIANE

       QUHILK EFTYR WAS BISCHOP OF DUNKELD

INCIPIT PROLOGUS

       IN VIRGILII ENEADOS.

       Table of Contents

      Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte

      To the and thy dulce ornat fresch endyte,

      Maist reuerend Virgill, of Latyn poetis prynce,

      Gem of engyne and flude of eloquens.

      Thou peirles perle, patroun of poetry,5

      Roys, regester, palm, lawrer, and glory,

      Chosyn charbukkil, cheif flour, and cedyr tre,

      Lantarn, laid stern, myrrour, and A per se,

      Maister of masteris, sweit sours, and spryngand well,

      Wyde quhar our all rung is thyne hevynly bell;10

      I meyn thy crafty warkis curyus,

      Sa quyk, lusty, and maist sentencyus,

      Plesand, perfyte, and feilabill in all degre,

      As quha the mater beheld tofor thar E;

      In every volume quhilk the lyst do wryte,15

      Surmontyng fer all other maner endyte,

      Lyke as the roys in June with her sweit smell

      The mary guld or dasy doith excell.

      Quhy suld I than, with dull forhed and vayn,

      With rude engyne and barrand emptyve brayn,20

      With bad harsk spech and lewit barbour tong,

      Presume to write quhar thy sweit bell is rung,

      Or contyrfate sa precyus wordys deir?

      Na, na, noth swa, bot kneill quhen I thame heir.

      For quhat compair betwix myd day and nycht,

      Or quhat compair betwix myrknes and lycht,

      Or quhat compair is betwix blak and quhyte,5

      Far grettar difference betwix my blunt endyte

      And thy scharp sugurate sang Virgiliane,

      Sa wysly wrocht, with nevir a word invane.

      My