"Brother Wantonness, what thinks thou? Yon are the Three Estates I trow Gangand backwart."
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Solace, lines 2023-20281599-1601
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David Lyndsay
Sir David Lyndsay (or Lindsay) of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms (c. 1490 β c. 1555) was the leading Scottish poet and playwright of the mid-16th century; also a courtier, a diplomat, and his country's highest-ranking herald.
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