He had nae been in fair England But yet a little while, Untill the kingis ae daughter To Johney proves wi’ chil’.
And with the stremes of your percyng light'; Kingis Quair, 103.
And I admit the certainty that he consulted The Kingis Quair.
Item, Fylit, for assembling him selff with Sathane, att the Kingisreturning to Denmark; quhair Satan promeist to raise ane mist, and cast the Kingis Majestie in Ingland.
James was the author of two poems, the Kingis Quair and Good Counsel (a short piece of three stanzas).
The Kingis Quair was first printed in the Poetical Remains of James the First, edited by William Tytler (1783).
In 1503 he took the "clerkis of the Kingis chapell to Maii to sing the Mes thair.
The Kingis Quair” may be accounted for by the situation of that poem, the only copy now known to exist being that contained in the Selden MS.
And one of Lyndsay’s poems, the “Answer maid to the Kingis Flyting” leaves no doubt on the subject.
Though he was allowed to follow the chase and pursue the amusements of his time, he was yet a prisoner, and the sad opening stanzas of his great poem, the Kingis Quair, speak the melancholy he often felt.
Quhethir for the weris that is betuix the Kingis of Ingland and of France, the Franchmen may leuefully tak the pure mennis gudis, and mak achet of, and mak presonaris thair persouns.
And alssua he was callit a Kingis Sone: ffor he is callit in Haly Writt the Sone of David King; and that sais Clerkis that he is of Kingis be the grettar excellence of lynage.
Item, to Thomas Boswell he laid downe in Leith to the wife of the kingis innis and to the boye ran the kingis hors 18s.
Before he left England he had written the poem, The Kingis Quhair, which records his captivity and courtship at Windsor.
But allow what we know of him, his captivity, his hard life, and tragic death, to suffuse the images created by the poem, and The Kingis Quhair is one of the loveliest ceremonious poems of love.
He seing no hope of the Kingis favour towards him, said verrie proudlie, 'I am bot ane fooll to seik grace at ane graceles face.
Kingis Quair, the first five lines are a fairly close imitation of the opening lines of the present poem, and prove that King James followed a MS.
On the other hand, this passage in Chaucer is imitated in the Kingis Quair, st.
Item, Payde to Hans Holbyn, one of the kingis paynters, by the kingis commaundement, certefyed by my lord pryviseales lettre xli.
Item for the Kingis offeringe this Sonday at taking his Rights in the mornyng, vj s.
To the Ducke of Suffolkis pleyers for pleyinge in the kingis hawle on twelf even, the somme of xxs.
The harrold than, with worschip to dewyss, Be tuk till him thekingis wryt off France.
At Canemor syne king Fergus has it nome; Brocht it till Scwne, and stapill maid it thar, 125 Quhar kingis was cround aucht hundyr yer and thar, Befor the tyme at king Eduuard it fand.
The Scottis power than all to gyddir war; The kingis palyon brymly doun thai bar.
His kingis charge as than he durst nocht hald: A wrangwys pape that tyrand mycht be cald.
Had he tayne pess, and beyne our kingis man, “The haill empyr he mycht haiff conquest than.
With out condyt, that I mycht wrokyne be “Off thi fals deid, thou dois in this regioune, “Than off pur gold a kingis gret ransoune.
Off kingis fer I dar mak no rahers; 315 My febill mynd, my trublyt spreit rewers.
And he him tald, as I haiff said befor, The kingis desyr; quhat nedis wordis mor?
The kingis palyone, quhar on the libardis baid, Spyand full fast, quhar his awaill suld be, And couth weyll luk and wynk, with the ta E.
Throw freyndys off the court I chapyt off that place, 195 ‘And neuir sen syn couth get the kingis grace: ‘For my saik mony off my kyn gert thai de.
Mycht thai off gold haiff brocht a kingis rent, To gud Wallace mycht nocht so weyll content.
Tharoff to spek as now I haiff no space; 1705 It is weill knawin, thankit be Goddis grace: And to the harrold, with outyn residens, How he approchyt to the kingis presens.
In sum part than he remordyt his thocht, The kingis commaund becauss he kepyt nocht: 10 Bot quhen he saw thai war fewar than he, He wald thaim byd, and othir do or de.
And also before the taking of Fugiers ser Simon Morhier knight, the provost of Paris, a lorde also of youre partie and chief of the Kingis counceile, take prisoner by Deepe and paieng a grete raunson or he was deliverid.
And the Bretons making under that colour mortalle werre to this land, but they were kept in subgeccion, and a gret bataile of descomfiture ayenst them had by the erle of Northampton, then the kingis lieutenaunt in that parties.
And there was take ser Barthilmew Clekyn the Frenshe kingis lieutenaunt for the werre prisoner, also the Mareshalle of Fraunce, the Besque, with many othre notable lordis.
And this was the custom in the daies of youre noble auncestries, bothe of kingis of Fraunce as of Englande.
For sethen the roiaume of Englonde first began to be inhabite withe peple was never so worshipfulle an act of entreprise done in suche a case, the renoume of which coronacion spradde thoroughe alle cristen kingis roiaumes.
All these causis makis the kingis pairt to be deadlie suspected be those quha knawis thame to be of veritie.
And this far is certanely knawin & collectit pairtly be the trew affirmacione of sum quha war present of the kingis awin folkis and last of all be the deposicionnis of Mr. Thomas Cranstoun, George Craigingelt, and J.
The ministers as I heare are asked to make a thankgyving to god, where they think more need of Fasting in Sackclothe and Ashes, to the kingis much discontenting.
My lord being at dennar Andro Hendirsone cwmes and sayis to his Lordship that thekingis Matie was cummand.
The kingis Matie eftir this resolution raid to Perth accompaneit wth thrie score horse quhair (?
The verie maner of the Erll of Gowrie and his brother their death, quha war killit at Perth the fyft of August by the kingis servanttis his Matie being present.
Ye knaw the kingis hwnting vill be schortly, and than sall be best tyme, as M.
Mr. Thomas Cranstoun that thrust in before him, the rest was excludit by violence of the kingis servanttis and cumpany quha .
He says, yon Foreste is his awin; He wan it frae the Southronie; Sae as he wan it, sae will he keep it, Contrair all kingis in Christentie.
Thair war ten or twelve gentlemen slane of the kingis folk, and als mony of theiris, or mea, as was said, and a dosone or xvi tane.
Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and others, together with the Kingis Quair.
If, again, it be assumed that one poem was the exemplar of the other, this is indisputable, that the Court of Love was modelled on the Kingis Quair, and not the Kingis Quair on the Court of Love.
Heireefter followis the quair Maid be King James of Scotland ye first, callit ye Kingis quair, and Maid quhen his Ma.
In any case, Mr. Brown must surely know that it is a very different thing for a copyist to miss-assign a few short poems and to make a statement so explicit as the statement here made with regard to the Kingis Quair.
The best poet among kings, and the best king among poets," the name of the author of the Kingis Quair heads the list of royal authors.
Of the Kingis Quair it is, so far as is known, the only MS.
He wrote a clever little book about the Queen before he took her to wife and while he was a prisoner," a plain reference to the Kingis Quair.
How the author of the Kingis Quair could have been indebted to Wyntown's Chronicle for the autobiographical details it is, indeed, difficult to see.
He was first caried to the Kingis awin tent, wher the Duc of Augyen and Prince of Conde told his Maiestie that Hector of Troy was not mair vailzeand them the said Normond: whom the K.
Sir George Clappertoun, Sub Dene of the Kingis Majesties Chapell Royall of Striveling, deceissit in the moneth of Apryle 1574.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kingis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
