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AYTOUN, or AYTON, See also: born in 1570
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He was educated at the university of St Andrews, where he was incorporated as a student of St Leonard's See also: College in 1584 and graduated M.A. in 1588
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He lived for some years in See also: France, and on the accession of See also: James VI. to the
See also: English See also: throne he wrote in See also: Paris a Latin See also: panegyric, which brought him into immediate favour at See also: court
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He was knighted in 1612
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He held various lucrative offices, and was private secretary to the queens of James I. and See also: Charles I
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He died in
See also: London and was buried in See also: Westminster Abbey on the 28th of See also: February 1638
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His reputation with his contemporaries was high, both personally and as a writer, though he had no ambition to be known as the latter
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Aytoun's remains are in Latin and English
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In respect of the latter he is one of the earliest Scots to use the See also: southern See also: standard as a See also: literary See also: medium
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The Latin poems include the panegyric already referred to, an Epicedium in ohitum See also: Thoma Rhodi; Basics, sive Strena ad Jacobum Hayum; Lessus in funere Raphaelis Therei; Carina Caro; and minor pieces, occasional and epitaphic
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His first English poem was See also: Diophantus and Charidora (to which he refers in his Latin panegyric to James)
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He has See also: left a number of pieces on amatory subjects, including songs and sonnets
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Aytoun's Latin poems are printed in Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum ( See also: Amsterdam, 16,39 i. pp
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40-75
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His English poems are preserved in a MS. in the: See also: British Museum (Add
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See also: MSS
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10,308), which was pre-pared by his See also: nephew, See also: Sir See also: John Aytoun
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Both were collected by Charles
See also: Rogers in The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun (London, privately printed, 1871)
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This edition is unsatisfactory, though it is better than the first issue by the same editor in 1844
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Additional poems are included which cannot be ascribed to Aytoun, and which in some cases have been identified as the See also: work of others
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The poem I do confess thou'rt smooth and See also: fair " may be suspected, and the old version of " Auld Lang Syne " and " Sweet Empress " are certainly not Aytoun's
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Some of the English poems are printed in See also: Watson's Collection (1706–1711) and in the See also: Bannatyne See also: Miscellany, i. p
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299 (1827)
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There is a memoir of Aytoun in Rogers's edition, and another by Grosart in the Dict. of Nat
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Biog . Particulars of his public career will be found in the printed Calendars of See also: State Papers and See also: Register of the Privy Council of the See also: period
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