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67. On royal healing by touch, see Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic
    (London, 1971 ), 192 – 99 ; Marc Bloch,The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and
    Scrofula in England and France, trans. J.E. Anderson (London, 1973 ). The Lord
    High Treasurer’sAccountsfor 30 April 1508 show a payment of three shillings
    “to ane pure barne that tuke the King be the hand”:LHTA,iv, 114. The editor
    asks:“May we see in this the Royal power of touching for scrofula?”(lxxxii).


68. Bawcutt,Dunbar, 117.


69. T. S. Dorsch,“Of Discretioun in Asking: Dunbar’s Petitionary Poems,”
    Chaucer und seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer, ed. Arno Esch
    (Tübingen, 1968 ), 285 – 92 ( 292 ).


70. On thisfigure, see G. R. Owst,Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England, rev.
    edn. (Oxford, 1961 ), 385 – 90 ; the phrase adapts Proverbs 7 , 10 – 12.


71. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial
    Desire(New York, 1985 ).


72. On lyric treatment of Mary as intercessor with Christ and“benevolent interven-
    trix in the affairs of the world,”see Woolf,English Religious Lyric, 118 – 20 ( 118 ).


73. On the ambivalence of gossip as“female vice of extraordinary power,”see
    Lochrie,Covert Operations, 60.


74. Freud,Standard Edition,viii, 99 – 100.


75. While Bawcutt’s glossary (s.v.“lad”) construes“ladis”as“boys”or“serving
    men,”it is worth noting thatDOSTgives“ladis”as a possible plural of“lady,”
    suggesting, in accordance with the reading advanced here, a more explicitly
    sexual element to this bull-baiting.
    76 .“The Testament of the Papyngo,”inSelected Poems, 491 – 92 , 500 – 04 , 513.
    Fradenburg notes that this narrative of glory and fall has dominated the subse-
    quent historiography of James IV’s reign:City, Marriage, Tournament, 153 – 60.


76. Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament, 161. My comments on James’s
    strategic“visibility”are indebted to Fradenburg, to whose account of James’s
    “arts of rule”it is central.


77. LHTA,ii, lxxx–lxxxii, 87 , 269 ff.


78. For the Palace at Stirling, seeLHTA,i, cclxv–cclxvi, 276 – 84 passim, 286 , 291 ,
    297 , 303 , 306 – 07 passim, 322 – 23 passim, 336 , 355 , 364 , 367 , 370 , 372 , 377 , 384 ,
    386 – 87 passim, 389 – 90 passim;ii, lxxx, 81 – 85 , 269 – 81. For its Chapel Royal’s
    new decorations, lxxix–lxxx; for Linlithgow,i, cclxiii–cclxiv, 195 , 204. See also
    R. L. Mackie,King James IV of Scotland: A Brief Survey of his Life and Times
    (Edinburgh, 1958 ); 113 – 16.


79. Norman Macdougall,“‘The Greattest Scheip that ewer Saillit in Ingland or
    France’: James IV’s‘Great Michael,’”Scotland and War,ad 79 – 1918 , ed.
    Norman Macdougall (Edinburgh, 1991 ), 36 – 60 ( 57 ).
    81 .James IV, 294. Macdougall cites the jousting in honor of Perkin Warbeck’s
    marriage in 1496 (LHTA,i, cxxx–cxxxi, 257 , 262 , 263 ); the tournament to
    celebrate James’s own wedding, in 1503 , which continued for three days in
    Holyrood palace courtyard (“Fyancells,” 298 – 300 ;LHTA,ii, 390 ); and the
    spectacular jousts of June 1507 and May 1508 , in the former of which the king
    may have played the role of the“wyld knycht,”entering combat against all

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