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At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.
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"This edition is based on a thorough reconsideration of the earliest complete printing of Douglas's Palyce. It offers a window into the poet's leading concerns: among them, the refinement of form through the interweaving of disparate models and sources; the interplay of entertainment, prophecy, admonition, encomium, and downright foolery; and, unde