But the earliest work of the Southgate press consisted of literature of a lighter sort, and, when dated at all, is dated 1508, while the Breviary did not make its appearance till later. These early productions, which survive only in fragments, included _The Porteous of Noblenes_, _The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane_, _Sir Eglamoure of Artoys_, _The Maying or Disport_ of Chaucer, and several others. _The Maying or Disport_ of Chaucer is the most perfect specimen remaining, and its exact date can be ascertained from its colophon, which reads as follows:-- Heir endis the maying and disport of Chaucer. Imprentit in the southgait of Edinburgh be Walter chepman and Androw myllar the fourth day of aprile the yhere of God M.CCCCC. and viii yheris. The _Maying and Disport_ is better known as the _Complaynt of a Lover's Life_, or the _Complaynt of the Black Knight_. * * * * * Strange to say, we hear no more of Myllar after this. But Chepman comes forward again in connection with the Breviary (though it is uncertain whether he was its printer), and probably printed some other books which have been lost. The Breviary is a small octavo in two volumes, the first of which appeared in 1509 and the other in 1510. It is printed in red and black Gothic characters. The conclusion of the Latin colophon to the second volume may be rendered as follows:-- "Printed in the town of Edinburgh, by the command and at the charge of the honourable gentleman Walter Chepman, merchant in the said town, on the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord 1510." The next Scottish printer, so far as is known, was a certain John Story, though only an _Office of Our Lady of Pity_, accompanied by a legend on the subject of the relics of St Andrew, remains to testify to us of his existence. It was printed "by command of Charles Steele," and Dr Dickson dates it at (perhaps) about 1520. Rather more than twenty years later, Thomas Davidson became King's Printer in Edinburgh. His only dated work was _The Nevv Actis And Constitvtionis of Parliament Maid Be The Rycht Excellent Prince Iames The Fift Kyng of Scottis 1540_. The title-page of this book consists of a large woodcut of the Scottish arms, above which is the title in four lines printed in Roman capitals. This book also displays all three forms of type--black letter, Roman, and Italic. Its colophon, which is printed in Italics, is as follows:-- _Imprentit in Edinburgh, be Thomas Davidson, dweling abone the nether bow, on the north syde of the gait, the aucht day of Februarii, the zeir of God. 1541. zeris._