Verse romance · c. 1550

The Historie of Squyer Meldrum

by Sir David Lyndsay

Lyndsay's verse romance of William Meldrum of Cleish and Binns, a Fife laird: a gallant, fighting, loving squire who defends a lady from robbers, wins a tournament in Ireland and a wife at home, and dies in his bed, leaving a Testament that is part mock-heroic, part valediction.

Contents · 2 parts

• The Historie of Squyer William Meldrum, of Cleische and Bynnisabout 1590 lines
• The Testament of the Nobill and Vailyeand Squyer William Meldrum of the Bynnisabout 250 lines

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