the movement of [Robert] Henryson's stanzas, a fine and definite modulation between the colloquial and the more considered elements of his style. If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: "Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . . " Foreboding about the grievous story he has to tell is already present here in the undermusic of what is seemingly a mere throat-clearing exercise by a professional.from The Guardian: Sound of sense
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