The Muses Threnodie

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Authorship and date
- Evidence for authorship in An
- John Adamson's role
- Henry Adamson: biography
- The date of MT
Witnesses
- An
- Bo
Language and versification
- Spellings, rhymes, and sounds
- Inflections
- Parts of speech and phrasal construction
- Simple and composite sentences
- Words and meanings in Scots and English
- Versification
Literary and historical significance
- Master Gall and Monsier George
- A poem on Perth
- The bridge and its mysteries
Previous edition
Editorial practice

The Muses Threnodie: Or Mirthfull Mournings on the Death of Master Gall by Henry Adamson
1Pre. Title Page
2Pre. Dedication
3Pre. To the Reader
- William Drummond, Letter to Henry Adamson
4Pre. Henry Adamson, The Inventarie of the Gabions
5Pre. Henry Adamson, An Apologie of the Author
6Pre. Thomas Crawford, De authoris praematuro obitu
7Pre. John Adamson, To Perth
8Pre. Thomas Crawford, On Patrick Adamson
9Pre. In authorem libri
10Pre. Ad Pertham
11Pre. John Moore, To the Memorie of the Author
1Mu. The First Muse
2Mu. The Second Muse
3Mu. The Third Muse
4Mu. The Fourth Muse
5Mu. The Fifth Muse
6Mu. The Sixth Muse
7Mu. The Seventh Muse
8Mu. The Eighth Muse
9Mu. The Ninth Muse

Textual Notes
Explanatory Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of names and places in the poem

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• Poesia por poetas individuais
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Geografia histórica
• História local

medieval and early modern Perth and the Tay local itineraries on foot and by boat; middle-class leisure - archery, golf, curling; generic overlays - elegy, comedy, satire, history; ruins and monuments in the built environment; Freemasonry and visions of urban restoration; seventeenth-century attitudes to the Scottish Reformation; attitudes to kingship; linguistic overlays - English and Scots; cabinets of curiosities