Tudor & Elizabethan

Alexander Scott

c. 1520–c. 1583


Alexander Scott was a Scottish makar of the mid-sixteenth century, whose short love lyrics are preserved chiefly in the Bannatyne Manuscript. Eyre-Todd calls him the earliest of the more distinctly lyrical Scottish poets.

He also wrote a comic burlesque, "The Justing and Debait vp at the Drum". Little is securely known of his life.

  1. The Justing and Debait vp at the Drum betuix William Adamsone and Johine Sym
  2. Hence, Hairt
  3. Oppressit Hairt Indure
  4. To Luve Vnluvit
  5. Lo, Quhat it is to Lufe

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