d on further examination I found it had been published
at Basle in 1537--_i.e._, a few years before Wishart was there. [The
little collection which Dr Mitchell thus refers to bears the title:
"Pasqvilli de Concilio Mantuano Iudicium. Qverimonia Papistarum ad
Legatum Pontificium in comicijs Schmalcaldianis. Mantua uae miseris
nimium uicina Papistis. MDXXXVII."

The colophon runs thus: "Impressum Romae in porta Angelorum.
M.D.XXXVII."

Wishart evidently found his lines in the following:--

"Lavs Romani Pontificis. Scripta ad placitum Romanae curiae per
uenerabilem dominum Doctorem Ioannem Cochleum, Theutonicae Doctor
Rotzloffel, et Georgium VVicelium cognomento, Meister Lugenmaul, Romanae
Ecclesiae propugnatores egregios.

"Pauperibus sua dat gratis nec munera curat
Curia Papalis quod modo percipimus
Laus tua non tua fraus, Virtus non copia rerum
Scandere te fecit, hoc Decus eximium
Conditio tua sit stabilis nec tempore paruo
Viuere te faciat hic Deus omnipotens.

"Quos uersiculos pessimus quidam haereticus, Lutheranus, iuuenilis
fortasis Poeta VVittembergensis, ita de uerbo ad uerbum inuertit.

"Percipimus modo quod Papalis curia curat
Munera, nec gratis dat sua pauperibus
Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere rerum
Copia, non uirtus, fraus tua, non tua laus.
Omnipotens Deus hic faciat te uiuere paruo
Tempore, nec stabilis sit tua conditio."]

[62] Hamilton Papers, ii. 38.

[63] Maxwell's Old Dundee prior to the Reformation, 1891, pp. 92, 395.

[64] Laing's Knox, i. 126. [Calderwood (i. 186) and Spottiswoode (i.
150) have _burning_ for _hornyng_.]

[65] Laing's Knox, i. 126.

[66] [Knox calls it "the East Porte of the Toune" (Laing's Knox, i.
129). Maxwell says that the Port which stood in the Seagate would alone
correspond to that described by Knox; and he adds: "The Port yet
standing in the Cowgate--which, because of its association with the
honoured name of George Wishart, only was left when some of the others
were demolished--really cannot be identified as his preaching-place, and
should not carry the inscription which has been recently put over its
archway" ('History of Old Dundee,' 1884, pp. 220-222).]

[67] Laing's Knox, i. 130.

[68] Gude and Godlie Ballatis, 1897, p. 165.

[69] Laing's Knox, i. 130, 131. The name of this priest is given as Sir
_John_ Wightone, or Weighton, by Knox, Calderwood, and Spottiswoode.
Maxwell cannot find a p