Lyndsay, David, Sir Born: 1490 AD Died: 1555 AD, at 65 years of
age. 1490 - Born into an aristocratic family. Scottish poet of
the pre-Reformation period who satirized the corruption of the
Roman Catholic church and contemporary government. 1512 -
Lyndsay was appointed attendant and companion to the infant
prince, the son of King James IV. 1524 - Dismissed from court,
when his charge, then James V, fell under the control of the
Douglas faction. 1528 - He returned to the king's service. - The
Dreme, Lyndsay's earliest surviving work in verse, is an
allegory of the contemporary condition of Scotland, with a
delightfully personal epistle to the king. 1530 - The Testament
and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo, written to
celebrate the king's escape from the Douglases, is a mixture of
satire, comedy, and moral instruction in which the king's dying
parrot gives advice to the king and court. 1536 - His An Answer
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