HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DISSERTATION, &c. IN this age of curiosity, when whatever seems to throw light upon the history, literature, or manners of our country in ancient times, is anxiously sought after, the publication of the following Poems, the works of James I. King of Scotland, one of the most illustrious persons of the beginning of the fifteenth century, may be no unacceptable present to the public. The Poem of Christ's Kirk of the Green, has been published before this time, commonly as the production of King James V. though falsely, and without foundation, as I shall endeavour to prove. The other Poem, called the King's Quair, was never before published. Of the illustrious author, B |