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and humour. Admitting, as we must, that much of the King's early writings have been lost - perhaps because
they were , like his "Flyting" with Lyndsay, not of a character to impress the popular mind - we may
safely conclude that "Chryst's Kirk" was the composition of mature years. But in this conclusion
we are bounded by the circumstances of his two marriages - the one following so close upon the other -
together with the events which followed thereon, which limit the period of its Composition to perhaps
between 1534, when a truce was entered into with England, and 1536 - both years included. In the
latter year he proceeded to France, in pursuance of his marriage - the death of his youthful Queen
only a few weeks after his return, in 1537 - the negotiations for his second marriage with Mary of
Guise, which took place the following year, and the important national events which rapidly
succeeded, till his premature death in 1542 - all tend to shew - that the King Could hardly have leisure,
or be in humour, to write such a poem as "(Chryst's Kirk on the Green" at any period later than 1536.
The scene of the poem, as well as the authorship, has been the subject of much discussion. There is
but one locality, it appears, in Scotland that answers to the description; and that is Christ's Church,
at Leshe, in the Garioch, Aberdeenshire. It has long been united to the parish of Kinnethmont;
but the ruins of the old Church stand on a green, where a fair, as stated in the old "Statistical
Account" (1792), was still held. As the gathering Continued over the night, it was called Sleepy
Market. This fair is now abolished, at least no mention is made of it in the Almanac lists of
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