JOHN

See also:

• JOHN ROLLAND (fl. 1560)

ROLLAND (fl. 1560)  , Scottish poet, appears to have been a priest of the diocese of Glasgow, and to have been known in Dalkeith in 1555 . He is the author of two poems, the Court of Venus and a translation of the Seven Sages . The former, which was printed by John Ros in i 575, may have been written before 156o . The latter was translated from a Scots prose version at the suggestion of an aunt (" ane proper wenche "), who had found his treatment of the courtly allegory involved and uninteresting . The Court of Venus was edited by Walter Gregor for the S.T.S. in 1884 . See W . A . Craigie's long list of corrections of that edition in the Modern Language Quarterly (March 1898) . The Seven Sages was printed in 1578, and frequently during the earlier decades of the 17th century . It was reprinted by David Laing for the Bannatyne Club (1837) . Sibbald, in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry (iii . 287), hinted that Rolland may be the author of the Thrie Priestis of Peblis .

There is not a scrap of

evidence in support of this; and there are many strong reasons against the ascription .