Note 2 — Introductory material
Reading edition
Included in Dalzell’s Scotish Poems of the XVIth Century, Edin. 1801, and reprinted in 1868. The following opening lines afford a specimen of the adaptation of a “prophaine sang”:—
Quho is at my windo? who? who? Goe from my windo; goe, goe: Quha calles there, so like ane stranger? Goe from my windo, goe. Lord, I am heir, ane wratched mortall That for thy mercie dois crie and call Vnto thee, my Lord Celestiall. See who is at my window, who.