William Dunbar: The Complete Works

by: William Dunbar (Author)
John Conlee (Editor)

Publisher Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Publisher Name: Medieval Institute Publications
Publication Date: 2004

Text(s)

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Select Bibliography
• The Complete Works
  • Poems Devotional and Moral, Text and Notes
  1. On the Nativity of Christ [Et nobis puer est]
  2. Of the Passion of Christ
  3. On the Resurrection of Christ [Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro]
  4. A Ballad of Our Lady [Ave Maria, gracia plena]
  5. In Praise of Women
  6. The Manner of Going to Confession
  7. The Table of Confession
  8. All Earthly Joy Returns to Pain
  9. Of Man's Mortality [Quoad tu in cinerem revertis]
  10. An Orison
  11. Of the World's Vanity [Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas]
  12. Of Life
  13. Of the Changes of Life
  14. The Lament for the Makars [Timor mortis conturbat me]
  15. A Meditation in Winter
  16. None May Assure in This World
  17. Best to Be Blithe
  18. Of Content
  19. Without Gladness No Treasure Avails
  20. His Own Enemy
  21. Spend Thine Own Goods [Thyne awin gude spend quhill thow hes space]
  22. Of Covetise [And all for caus of cuvetice]
  23. Of Deeming
  24. How Should I Conduct Myself [Lord God, how sould I governe me]
  25. Rule of Oneself [He rewllis weill that weill himself can gyd]
  26. Discretion in Asking [In asking sowld discretioun be]
  27. Discretion in Giving [In geving sowld discretioun be]
  28. Discretion in Taking [In taking sowld discretioun be]
  29. Dunbar at Oxford [Ane peralous seiknes is vane prosperite]
   
  • Poems Public and Private, Text and Notes
  30. The Thistle and the Rose
  31. To Princess Margaret [Welcum of Scotlond to be quene]
  32. To Princess Margaret [Gladethe, thoue queyne of Scottis regioun]
  33. To Aberdeen [Be blyth and blisfull, burgh of Aberdein]
  34. To the Queen [Devoyd languor and leif in lustines]
  35. Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Withe glorie and honour]
  36. Elegy for Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Sen he is gon, the flour of chevalrie
  37. To the King [In hansill of this guid New Yeir]
  38. To the King [God gif ye war Johne Thomsounis man]
  39. To the King [My panefull purs so priclis me]
  40. To the King [Schir, at this feist of benefice]
  41. To the King [Of benefice, sir, at everie feist]
  42. A Dream
  43. The Headache
  44. To the King [For to considder is ane pane]
  45. Against the Solicitors at Court
  46. To the King [Schir, ye have mony servitouris]
  47. To the King [Complane I wald]
  48. To the King [Exces of thocht dois me mischeif]
  49. To the King [That I suld be ane Yowllis yald]
  50. Of People Hard to Please
  51. The Antichrist
  52. To the Lord Treasurer [Welcome, my awin lord thesaurair]
  53. To the Lords of Chalker
  54. A Ballad of the Friar of Tungland
  55. Sir Thomas Norny
  56. A Dance in the Queen's Chamber [A merrear daunce mycht na man see]
  57. Of James Dog [Madame, ye heff a dangerous dog]
  58. Of the Aforesaid James Dog [He is na dog, he is a lam]
  59. Epitaph for Donald Oure
  60. A Complaint against Mure
   
  • Poems in the Courtly Tradition, Text and Notes
  61. Sweet Rose of Virtue
  62. Beauty and the Prisoner
  63. To a Lady
  64. Good Counsel for Lovers [Be secreit, trewe, incressing of your name]
  65. The Golden Targe
  66. The Merle and the Nightingale
  67. Love's Inconstancy
  68. True Love [And trew luve rysis fro the splene]
   
  • Poems Comic, Satiric, and Parodic, Text and Notes
  69. A Wooing in Dunfermline [And that me thocht ane ferly cace]
  70. To the Queen [Madam, your men said]
  71. Of a Black Moor [My ladye with the mekle lippis]
  72. In a Secret Place [Ye brek my hart, my bony ane]
  73. These Fair Ladies That Repair to Court
  74. Tidings from the Session
  75. To the Merchants of Edinburgh
  76. How Dunbar Was Desired to Be a Friar
  77. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins
  78. Of the Tailors and the Shoemakers [Telyouris and sowtaris, blist be ye]
  79. The Devil's Inquest [Renunce thy God and cum to me]
  80. Master Andro Kennedy's Testament
  81. Dunbar's Dirge
  82. The Twa Cummars [This lang Lentrin it makis me lene]
  83. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
  84. The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo
• Glossary

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