Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

Alexander Montgomerie

c. 1545–1598

Alexander Montgomerie was a Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar, master poet at the court of James VI, best known for the allegorical dream-poem ‘The Cherrie and the Slae.’

A Catholic at a Protestant court, he later fell from royal favour over his religion and political dealings.

Poems (6)

  1. The Night is Near Gone
  2. The Cherrie and the Slae
  3. An Admonitioun to Young Lassis
  4. To His Maistres (Bright amorous ee)
  5. To His Maistres (So suete a kis)
  6. To Thé for Me

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