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Douglas, Gavin, bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland, was the third son of Archibald earl of Angus, and born in the year 1474. Where he was educated, is not known; but it is certain that he studied theology: a study, however, which did not estrange him from the mules; for he employed himself at intervals in translating into beautiful verse the poem of Ovid de Remedio Amoris. The advantages of foreign travel, and the conversation of the most learned men in France and Germany, to whom his merit produced the readiest accents, completed his education. With his superior recommendations and worth, it was impossible he could remain unnoticed. His first preferment was to be provost of the collegiate church of St Giles in Edinburgh; a place at that time of great dignity and revenue. In the year 1514, the queen mother, then regent of Scotland, appointed Douglas abbot of Aberbrothock, and soon after archbishop of St Andrew's; but the queen's power not being sufficient to establish him in the possession of that dignity, he relinquished his claim in favour of his competitor Foreman, who was supported by the pope. In 1515, he was by the queen appointed bishop of Dunkeld; and that appointment was soon after confirmed by his holiness Leo X. Nevertheless it was some time before he could obtain peaceable possession of his see. The duke of Albany, who in this year was declared regent, opposed him because he was supported by the queen; and, in order to deprive him of his bishopric, accused him of acting contrary to law in receiving bulls from Rome. On this accusation he was committed to the castle of Edinburgh, where he continued in confinement above a year; but the regent and the queen being at last reconciled, he obtained his liberty, and was consecrated bishop of Dunkeld. In 1517, he attended the duke of Albany to France; but returned soon after to Scotland. In 1521, the disputes between the earls of Arran and Angus having thrown the kingdom into violent commotion, our prelate retired to England, where he became intimately acquainted with Polydore Virgil the historian. He died in London of the plague in 1522; and was buried in the Savoy. He wrote, 1. The Palace of Honour: a most ingenious poem under the similitude of a vision; in which he paints the vanity and inconstancy of all worldly glory. It abounds with incidents, and a very rich vein of poetry. The palace of happiness, in the picture of Cebes, seems to be the groundwork of it. 2. Aureae Narrationes: a performance now lost; in which, it is said, he explained, in a most agreeable manner, the mythology of the poetical fictions of the ancients. 3. Corneliae aliquot saecra: None of which are now to be found. 4. Thirteen Bukes of Eneades, of the famous poet Virgil, translated out of Latin verses into Scottish metre, every buke having its particular prologue. Imprinted at London 1553, in 4to; and reprinted at Edinburgh 1710, in folio. The last is the most esteemed of all his works. He undertook it at the desire of Lord Henry Sinclair, a munificent patron of arts in those times; and he completed it in 18 months; a circumstance which his admirers are too fond of repeating to his advantage. David Hume of Godscroft, an author of uncommon merit, and an admirable judge of poetry, gives the following testimony in his favour. "He wrote (ays he) in his native tongue divers things; but his chiefeft work is his translation of Virgil, yet extant, in verse; in which he ties himself so strictly as is possible; and yet it is so well exprest, that whoeuer will effay to do the like will find it a hard piece of work to go through with it. In his prologues before every book, where he hath his liberty, he floweth a natural and ample vein of poetry, fo pure, pleasant, and judicious, that I believe there is none that hath written before or since but cometh short of him." It has been said, that he compiled an historical treatise De Rebus Scoticis; but no remain of it hath descended to the present times.

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