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In the concluding stanza of the "Quair," James records his obligation to those --
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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In this first novel of Gibbon's "A Scots Quair" trilogy, Chris's heart belongs to her family's farm, but the modern world has begun to encroach on the nearby village of Kinraddie.
Five Best Alex Salmond 2007
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Monarchs have seldom time to parley with their hearts, or to meditate their minds into poetry; and had James been brought up amidst the adulation and gayety of a court, we should never, in all probability, have had such a poem as the Quair.
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Besides The King's Quair, there are a few other short poems which some people think King James wrote.
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They are very different from the Quair, being more like the ballads of the people, and most people think now that James did not write them.
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For tradition seems correct in naming this monarch as the author of a pretty poem, 'The King's Quair' ( 'The King's Quire,' that is Book), which relates in a medieval dream allegory of fourteen hundred lines how the captive author sees and falls in love with a lady whom in the end Fortune promises to bestow upon him.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Leithen, by Glensax Burn and the Quair, and over the hills into
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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The King's Quair is written in verses of seven lines.
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How all this happened King James has told us himself in a book called The King's Quair, which means the King's little book, which he wrote while he was still a prisoner in England.
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The King's Quair reminds us very much of Chaucer's work.
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