Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness...maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland. (David Lyndsay)

Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness...maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.

David Lyndsay

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