Andrews,  in  St.  Salvator's  College  ;  was,  for  a  time,
a  Franciscan ;  afterwards  was  employed  much  in  the
service  of  James  IV.,  King  of  Scotland,  and  received
from  him,  in  1.500,  a  pension  of  £10  Scots.  The
buying  power  of  money  was  much  greater  then  than
now,  but  ten  pounds  in  Scottish  currency  were  not
quite  three  pounds  English.  The  pension  was
doubled  in  1.507,  and  raised  from  twenty  to  eighty
pounds  in  1510.  Dunbar  wrote,  in  May,  150;5,  an
allegorical  court-poem,  "  The  Thistle  and  the  Rose,"
on  the  marriage  of  King  James  IV.  to  Margaret
Tudor;  and  before  1508,  when  it  was  first  printed,
with  his  "  Lament  for  the  Makars,"  another  alle-
gorical poem,  on  Reason  as  "  The  Golden  Terge,"
or  shield,  by  which  man  is  defended  against  the
assaults  of  Love,  till  Presenfte  throws  her  blinding
dust  into  his  eyes.  Dunbar,  with  a  little  body,  and
a  large,  free  mind,  with  vigour,  humour,  tenderness
— a  range  of  power  found  only  in  few — was  the  best
poet  who  had  yet  arisen  since  the  days  of  Chaucer.
How  rich  the  Scottish  nation  was  in  song  may  lie
inferred  from  Dunbar's  lines,  written  in  1507  or
1508,  as  a  "  Lament  for  the  Makars,"  or  jioets,  who
had  died  in  his  time,  and  whom  then,  because  lie  was
dangerously  ill,  and  in  expectation  of  death  (Thnor
mortis  contvrhat  me — "The  fear  of  death  disquiets
me  "),  he  believed  that  he  was  soon  to  follow.
LAMENT    FOR    THli  MAKARS.'
WHEN-    HE    W.^S    SEIK.
I  that  in  heill'  was  and  glaidness,
Am  troublit  now  with  great  sciloiess,
And  feeblit  ^^-ith  infli'mitie  :
Timor  mortis  eoiitiirbaf  mv.
