Excerpt from The Kingis Quair: Together With a Ballad of Good Counsel I. It is not my intention to say much here concerning the royal author of the Kingis Quair, as accounts of him are easily accessible. In particular, I would refer the reader to the sketch of the life of James I. in chap. vi. of The History of Scotish Poetry by David Irving; and to the account in Morley's English Writers, vol. ii. part I, p. 445, which is partly taken from Burton's History of Scotland. See also the Life of James I. in the editions of the Kingis Quair by Tytler and Chalmers, and The Life and Death of King James of Scotland, edited for the Maitland Club by Mr Stevenson in 1857. For some corrections in these earlier accounts, see the Dictionary of National Biography; and, in particular, the essay on the Authorship of the Kingis Quair by J.T. T.Brown, Glasgow, 1896. See the Postscript to this Introduction, p.lv. 2.The facts of his life that immediately concern the reader of his chief poem may be briefly enumerated. He was born in 1394 (shortly before August I), being the third son of King Robert III. and his queen Annabella Drummond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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