William Dunbar
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"William Dunbar" was a Scotland/Scottish makar poet active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV/James IV of Scotland and produced a large body of work in Scots Language/Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles. He was probably a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie where it is also hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar. His surname is often written as Dumbar.

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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

I was in New Orleans during the first of those two. More than half of the town was stripped of its covering, many houses thrown down in town and country.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

The fear of death disquiets me.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.