David Laing

After this a miscellany called Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish Poetry, 1825, edited by David Laing , ascribed to her two congratulatory broadsides addressed to public figures and printed in probably 1670 and 1684...

These two editions (both in English) witness the continuing importance of the text to Presbyterians . The same century saw a total of seven reprints, with two in the early eighteenth century. The poem was...

This poem was included in the same early nineteenth-century anthology, Early Metrical Tales, edited by David Laing , 1826, along with Ane Godlie Dreame. A misreading in the final lines was not...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...