"His background is not simply the Abbey School of Dunfermline (where he is reputed to have been a schoolmaster), but the surrounding Scottish countryside and community to which he belonged. His wisdom – and his poems are very wise about life – evidently came from his having lived long and profoundly as a member of that whole Scottish community."
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John Speirs, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 85.
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Robert Henryson
Robert Henryson or Robert Henderson (c. 1430 – c. 1490) was a Scottish Chaucerian poet or makar, best known for his Morall Fabillis and The Testament of Cresseid.
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