A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
E4 A Myene of Gold some say their’s found
Notes. This short, undated poem may refer to rumours of a gold mine north of the border. The libel’s depiction of Scottish poverty is entirely commonplace—and essential to the charge that the Scots who had accompanied James VI into England had come to plunder English wealth.
A Myene of Gold some say their’s found
In Scotland; that’s a wonder.
To see noe money above ground
And yett to fynde some under.
Source. Bodleian MS Malone 23, p. 120
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Douce f.5, fol. 34v; BL Add. MS 22118, fol. 9v; Folger MS V.a.319, fol. 26r
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