Dialogue poem · 1553

Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour

The Monarche

by Sir David Lyndsay

A long dialogue in Middle Scots, written in 1553, in which the old courtier-turned-sage Experience instructs a Courteour on the misery of the world, rehearsing the history of the four great monarchies from Creation to the Last Judgement and attacking idolatry and the abuses of Church and state.

Contents · 7 parts

• The Epistil to the Redarabout 120 lines
• The Prologabout 180 lines
• The First Bukeabout 1320 lines
• The Secund Bukeabout 1770 lines
• The Thrid Bukeabout 1600 lines
• The Fourt Bukeabout 1290 lines
• Ane Exhortatioun72 lines

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