Atouir[55] his belt his lyart[56] lokkis lay Felterit[57] unfair, ovirfret with froistis hoir, His garmound and his gyis[58] full gay of gray, His widderit weid[59] fra him the wind out woir; Ane busteous bow within his hand he boir, Under his girdill ane flasche[60] of felloun flanis,[61] Fedderit[62] with ice, and heidit with hailstanis. _The Testament of Cresseid_ (_d_) =William Dunbar (1460–1520)= is generally considered to be the chief of the Scottish Chaucerian poets. He was born in East Lothian, studied at St. Andrews University (1477), and went to France and became a wandering friar. Returning to Scotland, he became attached to the household of James IV, and in course of time was appointed official Rhymer. He died about 1520. Dunbar wrote freely, often on subjects of passing interest; and though his work runs mainly on Chaucerian lines it has an energy and pictorial quality that are quite individual. Of the more than ninety poems associated with his name the most important are _The Golden Targe_, of the common allegorical-rhetorical type; _The Thrissill and the Rois_, celebrating the marriage of James IV and the English Margaret (1503); _The Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins_, with its strong _macabre_ effects and its masterly grip of meter; _The Twa Meryit Wemen and the Wedo_, a revival of the ancient alliterative measure, and outrageously frank in expression; and _The Lament for the Makaris_, in short stanzas with the refrain _Timor Mortis conturbat me_, quite striking in its effect. The following short extract reveals Dunbar’s strong pictorial quality and his command of meter. Let see quoth he now wha begins:-- With that the foul Sevin Deidlie Sins Beyond to leap at anis[63]; And first of all in dance was Pride With hair wyld[64] back and bonnet o’ side, Like to make vaistie wanis.[65] And round about him as a wheel Hung all in rumples to the heel His kethat[66] for the nanis.[67] Mony proud trumpour[68] with him trippit; Through scalding fire aye as they skippit They girned[69] with hideous granis.[70] Then Ire came in with sturt[71] and strife His hand was aye upon his knife, He brandeist like a beir.[72] _The Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins_ (_e_) =Gawain Douglas (1474–1522)= was a member of the famous Douglas family, his father being the fifth Earl of Angus, Archibald “Bell the Cat.” He studied at St. Andrews University (1489) and probably at Paris, became a priest, and rose to be Bishop of Dunkeld. He took a great share in the high politics of those dangerous times, and in the end lost his bishopric, was expelled to England, and died in London.