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Rh who were followers of the exiled Earl of Douglas. But from the manner in which our author is mentioned by Dunbar, and by Sir David Lyndsay, along with the other Scotish makars, or poets, whom they commemorate, we may readily infer, that he was esteemed as a writer of some distinction; and Lyndsay, who connects his name with those of Merser, Henryson, and three other of their contemporaries, says with emphasis:—