I see that makars.among the lave (rest),
Play here their pageants, then go to the grave,
Spared is not their faculty
A little spelling difficulty and a couple of words 'lave' and 'syne' which Burns uses 250 years later. Good God, we have to decipher American all the time. I would have thought Scots is a doddle.
Burns (to me) is the best of the romantic poets, except for Keats. I've always thought Blake overrated and Wordsworth wrote such a lot.
Dunbar is the best poet (except for Chaucer) before Shakespeare. I think. And Henryson the second best.
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