Rhymer's

From somewhere has come the factoid that Thomas the Rhymer's real surname was Learmont.

Spent my last ten dollars on condiments and beer 2006

Theatre company One Yellow Rabbit is staging Blake Brooker and David Rhymer's play Dream Machine, a "halucinogenic musical" based on Burroughs and Gysin's invention of the Dreamachine (see below).

Boing Boing: March 16, 2003 - March 22, 2003 Archives 2003

The "Rhymer's Glen" was afterwards a cherished possession of Scott's own on the Abbotsford estate.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

Thomas Watson, author of "The Rhymer's Family," a small volume of poems, published in 1847, was born at Arbroath about the year 1807.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Another, the whole party feasted by Thomas the Rhymer's waterfall in the glen; and the stone on which 'Maria' sat that day was ever afterwards called 'Edgeworth's Stone.' ...

Maria Edgeworth 1905

Still, at moments of deep distress or public wrong-doing, we may hear the echo of the Corn-law Rhymer's anthem:

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

A fragmentary old poem, showing probable traces, as Jamieson suggests, of the Rhymer's own authorship, tells this famous adventure in language whose antiquated form cannot disguise its sweetness.

Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894

Cauldshiel's loch for Thomas the Rhymer's Glen; and as, at every step in the ladder, his means of buying were really increasing -- though they were so cruelly discounted and forestalled by this growing land-hunger, -- Scott never realized into what troubles he was carefully running himself.

Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

Abbotsford; and so much for Dryburgh; and then, if we would like to throw in Thomas the Rhymer's Tower, why, that would be something extra.

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

Ned and Charley made themselves as happy as they could, caring very little for Rhymer's grumbling.

Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade William Henry Giles Kingston 1847