Of the poet’s other works the longest extant is “The Flyting betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart,” a tournament of Rabelaisian humour in the style of the famous “Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
It occurs in the Flyting with Kennedy, at whom his adversary flings the jeer, "he that dang Sanct Augustine with an rumple Thy fowll front had".
Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Flytingwith Montgomery, &c.
The Flytingbetween Dunbar and Kennedy, and other Poems.
Dinna be flyting on the wee thing wi' its speckled breast and bonnie e'e.
So whiles the men flyting the fallow street there With their mares were they meting.
What wi' flytingon him, and what wi' laughing at him, there was nae minding ony other body when that Valentine was in the house.
This is assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar.
Sudna ye hae come faster up yoursells, instead of flyting at huz?
Then sic a flyting as there wad be between them, a' about Whig and Tory," continued Jenny.
