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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Gawain Douglas (c. 1474–1522)

Douglas, Gawain. A Scotch poet; born in Perth (?), 1474?; died in London, Sept. 1522. He lived “a man of peace amid resounding arms”; writing ‘The Palice of Honour’ (1553) while a cloistered youth, and ‘King Hart,’ an allegory of the state of man, after he had become famed as a churchman, translating also all of the ‘Æneid.’