Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson (c. 1430–c. 1506) was a Scottish poet writing in Middle Scots in the second half of the fifteenth century. Almost nothing is known of his life: he is described in early sources as a schoolmaster, and is generally linked with Dunfermline, where William Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris places his death.

He is best known for The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, thirteen beast fables in rime royal, each closed by a moralitas; for The Testament of Cresseid, a tragic sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and for Orpheus and Eurydice and the pastoral Robene and Makyne. With Dunbar and Gavin Douglas he is counted among the great Scottish makars.