A ROYAL RHETORICIAN

'Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name

Shall be, and make new nations: he shall flourish,
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches
To all the plains about him.'

King Henry VIII., Act v. Sc. 5.

A Treatise on Scottis Poesie

A Counterblaste to Tobacco

etc. etc.

BY KING JAMES VI. AND I.

Edited, with an Introduction,

BY ROBERT S. RAIT,

FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD

UNIV. OF
CALIFORNIA

WESTMINSTER

A. CONSTABLE AND CO.

1909

10 VINU AIMBORLIAO

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty