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Robert Henryson
Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots "makars", he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities. Little is known of his life, but evidence suggests that he was a teacher who had training in law and the humanities, that he had a connection with Dunfermline Abbey and that
The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous
"The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous", also known as "The Twa Mice," is a Middle Scots adaptation of Aesop's Fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" by the Scottish poet Robert Henryson. Written around the 1480s, it is the second poem in Henryson's collection called "The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian". 
Hennryson's "Fabill" treats its characters and incidents with a realism that was hitherto