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William Dunbar

Died in 1520

William Dunbar was born around 1460, entered the service of the Scottish court and received there the pension of a priest without a parish, which left him time to write. He travelled to France and England on embassies, petitioned in verse for a benefice that was never given to him, and complains in almost all his poems of his stomach, his money and the court. He disappears from the royal accounts after Flodden, in 1513, and it is supposed that he died around 1520.

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