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  • Robert Henryson

    …to Henryson are the lovely Orpheus and Eurydice, based on Boethius and akin to the Testament in mood and style; a pastourelle, Robene and Makyne, in which a traditional French genre assimilates the speech and humour of the Scottish peasantry; and a number of fine moral narratives and meditations.

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    …to Henryson are the lovely Orpheus and Eurydice, based on Boethius and akin to the Testament in mood and style; a pastourelle, Robene and Makyne, in which a traditional French genre assimilates the speech and humour of the Scottish peasantry; and a number of fine moral narratives and meditations.

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