The obscurity of his reign hangs darkest over his death, and the virulent Buchanan slandered him in his grave.

Under his reign, Henryson, the greatest of the Chaucerian school in Scotland, produced his admirable poems.

Many other poets whose works are lost were flourishing; and _The Wallace_, that elaborate plagiarism from Barbour's 'The Brus,' was composed, and attributed to Blind Harry, a paid minstrel about the Court.

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