received. Hume, in his poems, speaks of the Scotch court with a considerable degree of asperity, and insinuates that he might be considered
And got no gain thereby, nor no reward.
And he says expressly,
I little gain deserved, and less I gat.
On the other hand, the invectives of Montgomery against Polwart, had the honour of being quoted by the young monarch James VI. himself, in the "Rewlls and Cautelis of Scotis Poesie." Montgomery, in one of his poems, triumphs on that poetical victory:
Whose highness laughed some time for to look
How I chased Polwart from the chimney nook[1].
Polwart appears, from the invective of Montgomery, to have been born in the Merse; and it is certain that the name of Polwart is still retained with that of Hume by the Marchmont family. Dempster names the antagonist of Montgomery, Patrick Hume, and asserts that he derived the name of Polwart from his patrimonial estate. If Dempster could be depended on, the name of Patrick would determine the author of the Invective to have been the elder brother of the minister of Logie; but the authority of Dempster, who composed his work
- ↑ Montgomery's Poems, MS.
