1 79°* LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. aj 



ranked the two following quotations, fele£led by an 

 ingenious correfpondent from a collection that few 

 have feen, or had any opportunity of confultingf. 

 They are to be found in a book intituled " A choice 

 of emblems and other devices, for the moft part ga- 

 thered out of fundrie writers, englilhed and moralized, 

 and divers newly devifed, by Geffrey Whitney." Im- 

 printed at Leyden, in the houfe of Criftopher Plantyn, 

 by Francis Raphalengius, 1583. 



" The nightingall that chaunteth all the fprlnge, 

 *' Whofe warblinge nottes throughout the wooddes are 



harde, 

 *' Being kept in cage flie ceaceth for to finge, 

 " And mourns becaufe her liberties is barde., "p. 100. 



*' The longeft day in time refigns to nighte ; 

 ** The greateft oke in time to durte doth turne ; 

 *' The raven dies, the eagle fails of flighte ; 

 *' The phenix rare in time herfelf doth burne : 

 " The princely ftagge at lengthe his race doth runne, 

 '* And all mull ende that ever was begunne." p. 23. 



No apology, it is hoped willbe neceflary, for fubjoin- 

 ing the following beautiful ode, that was compofed by 

 an unknown Scottifli bard, Ihortly after the unfortu- 

 nate battle of Floddon, in which Kin^ James the Fourth 

 of Scotland was llain, and the flower of his nobility 

 deftroyed, with a great flaughter of all ranks, by the 

 Englilh army, under the command of the Earl of Sur- 

 ry, in the year 15 13. This beautiful ode is ftill fung 

 as a popular ballad iu Scotland. It is written in the 

 Scottifh dialect of that time. That Englilh readers 



f The editor will be much obliged to his readers for noting down any 

 thing curious, in this or other rclpeds, that Ihall occur to them in the 

 courfe of their readinpj ; and merely referring to the books where they 

 are to be found, where it would prove inconvenient to tranfcribe them; 

 and where the books arc uot fo rare, m tafily to be found. 



