I. INTRODUCTION
[DEDICATION]
O Souerayne lorde, be it to your plesance
This book to take of my symplicite,
Thus now newly made for Rememorance,
Whiche no man hath in worlde bot oonly ye;
Whiche I compiled vnto your Rialte,
And to the Queenes hertes consolacion
To know thestate of youre domynacion;
And for the Prynce to haue playne conyshance
Of this Region, in what nobilite
It hath been kept alway of gret pushance
With baronage and lordes of dignyte;
The whiche alway God graunte that ye and he
May so kepe forth vndyr your gouernance
To Goddes plesir withouten variance.
Thus to yow thre Rials in vnyte
This book with hert and lowly obeishance
I present now with al benygnyte
To been euermore within your gouernance,
For soueraynte and your inherytance
Of Scotlond hool, whiche shulde your Reule obaye
As Souereyn lorde, fro whiche thay prowdly straye.
Wythin thre yer thair grete Rebellion
Ye myght oppresse and vttirly restrayne,
And haue it all in youre possession,
And to obaye your myght make thaym full fayne,
As Kynge Edward the first with hungir and payne
Thaym conquerde hool to his subieccion
To byde for euer vndir his hole proteccion.