Complete Works (William Dunbar)

John Conlee is Professor of English at William and Mary. He specializes in Chaucer, Arthurian literature, and Middle English.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Select Bibliography Poems Devotional and Moral On the Nativity of Christ [Et nobis puer est] Of the Passion of Christ On the Resurrection of Christ [Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro] A Ballad of Our Lady [Ave Maria, gracia plena] In Praise of Women The Manner of Going to Confession The Table of Confession All Earthly Joy Returns to Pain Of Man's Mortality [Quoad tu in cinerem revertis] An Orison Of the World's Vanity [Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas] Of Life Of the Changes of Life The Lament for the Makars [Timor mortis conturbat me] A Meditation in Winter None May Assure in This World Best to Be Blithe Of Content Without Gladness No Treasure Avails His Own Enemy Spend Thine Own Goods [Thyne awin gude spend quhill thow hes space] Of Covetise [And all for caus of cuvetice] Of Deeming How Should I Conduct Myself [Lord God, how sould I governe me] Rule of Oneself [He rewllis weill that weill himself can gyd] Discretion in Asking [In asking sowld discretioun be] Discretion in Giving [In geving sowld discretioun be] Discretion in Taking [In taking sowld discretioun be] Dunbar at Oxford [Ane peralous seiknes is vane prosperite] Poems Public and Private The Thistle and the Rose To Princess Margaret [Welcum of Scotlond to be quene] To Princess Margaret [Gladethe, thoue queyne of Scottis regioun] To Aberdeen [Be blyth and blisfull, burgh of Aberdein] To the Queen [Devoyd languor and leif in lustines] Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Withe glorie and honour] Elegy for Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Sen he is gon, the flour of chevalrie To the King [In hansill of this guid New Yeir] To the King [God gif ye war Johne Thomsounis man] To the King [My panefull purs so priclis me] To the King [Schir, at this feist of benefice] To the King [Of benefice, sir, at everie feist] A Dream The Headache To the King [For to considder is ane pane] Against the Solicitors at Court To the King [Schir, ye have mony servitouris] To the King [Complane I wald] To the King [Exces of thocht dois me mischeif] To the King [That I suld be ane Yowllis yald] Of People Hard to Please The Antichrist To the Lord Treasurer [Welcome, my awin lord thesaurair] To the Lords of Chalker A Ballad of the Friar of Tungland Sir Thomas Norny A Dance in the Queen's Chamber [A merrear daunce mycht na man see] Of James Dog [Madame, ye heff a dangerous dog] Of the Aforesaid James Dog [He is na dog, he is a lam] Epitaph for Donald Oure A Complaint against Mure Poems in the Courtly Tradition Sweet Rose of Virtue Beauty and the Prisoner To a Lady Good Counsel for Lovers [Be secreit, trewe, incressing of your name] The Golden Targe The Merle and the Nightingale Love's Inconstancy True Love [And trew luve rysis fro the splene] Poems Comic, Satiric, and Parodic A Wooing in Dunfermline [And that me thocht ane ferly cace] To the Queen [Madam, your men said] Of a Black Moor [My ladye with the mekle lippis] In a Secret Place [Ye brek my hart, my bony ane] These Fair Ladies That Repair to Court Tidings from the Session To the Merchants of Edinburgh How Dunbar Was Desired to Be a Friar The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins Of the Tailors and the Shoemakers [Telyouris and sowtaris, blist be ye] The Devil's Inquest [Renunce thy God and cum to me] Master Andro Kennedy's Testament Dunbar's Dirge The Twa Cummars [This lang Lentrin it makis me lene] The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Index of First Lines Glossary