See also: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
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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
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In Ane See also:Epistle to Maister See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
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
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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
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After three years' experience there he abandoned law in disgust and sought a See also:post at See also:court (ib
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Still dissatisfied, he took orders, and became in
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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
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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
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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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" The See also: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
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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
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The last is an See also:argument against prelacy
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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
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See also:Lawson) (1902)
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The last includes the prose tracts
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