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| | §2. "The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo". VI. Sir David Lyndsay. Vol. 3. Renascence and ... |
 | | Truth to tell, there is little or no art in Lyndsays use of the expedient, so far as regards the counsel of the dying bird either to the king or to the brether of the courte. In both cases, the voice is the voice of Lyndsay, without any attempt to disguise it. |
 | | In his official capacity of Lyon King of Arms, Lyndsay, doubtless, acquired considerable dramatic experience, for he had the general superintendence of the pageantry and diversions on the occasion of royal fêtes, and, probably, devised the farces, masques and mummeries. |
 | | Lyndsays play was performed before James V at Linlithgow in 1540, and it may have been performed elsewhere at an earlier date. |
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