th his fellow-men, and obliges him to depend on his own native powers for distin. It is curious, too, to get at the history of a monarchs heart, and to ?nd the simple affes of human nature throbbing uhe ermine. But James had learnt to be a poet before he was a king; he was schooled in adversity, and reared in the pany of his own thoughts.
Monarchs have seldom time to parley with their hearts or to meditate their minds into poetry; and had James been brought up amidst the adulation and gayety of a court, we should never, in all probability, have had such a poem as the Quair.
* Quair, an old term for book.
I have been particularly ied by those parts of the poem which breathe his immediate thoughts ing his situation, or which are ected with the apartment iower. They have thus a personal and local charm, and are given with such circumstantial truth as to make the reader present with the captive in his prison and the panion of his meditations.
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