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ALEXANDER HUME (c. 1557-1609)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 876 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:HUME (c. 1557-1609)  , Scottish poet, second son of See also:Patrick See also:Hume of Polwarth, See also:Berwickshire, was See also:born, probably at Reidbrais, one of his See also:family's houses, about 1557 . It has been generally assumed that he is the See also:Alexander Hume who matriculated at St See also:Mary's See also:college, St See also:Andrews, in 1571, and graduated in 1574 . In Ane See also:Epistle to Maister See also:Gilbert Montcreif (Moncrieff), mediciner to the See also:Kings Majestic, wherein is set downe the Experience of the Authours youth, be relates the course of his disillusionment . He says he spent four years in See also:France before beginning to study See also:law in the courts at See also:Edinburgh (1 . 136) . After three years' experience there he abandoned law in disgust and sought a See also:post at See also:court (ib . 1 . 241) . Still dissatisfied, he took orders, and became in . 1597 See also:minister of See also:Logic, near See also:Stirling, where he lived until his See also:death on the 4th of See also:December 1609 . His best-known See also:work is his See also:Hymns, or Sacred Songs (printed by See also:Robert See also:Waldegrave at Edinburgh in 1599, and dedicated to See also:Elizabeth Melvill, See also:Lady Comrie) containing an epistle to the Scottish youth, urging them to abandon vanity for See also:religion . One poem of the collection, entitled " A description of the See also:day Estivall," a See also:sketch of a summer's day and its occupations, has found its way into several anthologies .

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Triumph of the See also:Lord after the Manner of Men " is a See also:song of victory of some merit, celebrating the defeat of the See also:Armada in 1588 . His See also:prose See also:works include Ane See also:Treatise of See also:Conscience (Edinburgh, 1594), A Treatise of the Felicitie of the See also:Life to come (Edinburgh, 1594), and Ane Afold Admonitioun to the Ministerie of See also:Scotland . The last is an See also:argument against prelacy . Hume's See also:elder See also:brother, Lord Polwarth, was probably one of the combatants in-the famous " Flyting betwixt See also:Montgomerie and Polwart." The See also:editions of Hume's See also:verse are: (a) by Robert Waldegrave (1599) ; (b) a reprint of (a) by the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club (1832) ; and (c) by the Scottish See also:Text Society (ed . A . See also:Lawson) (1902) . The last includes the prose tracts .

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