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Drawing in the Protocol Book, 1589 to 1592, of Alexander Wedderburn
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It represents a figure with The Steeple as the headband, the nose/throat as the town churches, the right arm Argylle's Gait, (now the Overgate), the left arm Nethergate, the left breast The Market Cross, the right breast The Tolbooth, the waistband Skinners (for the glover trade), left calf Seagate, right calf Murraygate, scabbard Wellgate, right foot Cowgate. It is the earliest named 'plan' of Dundee in the Dundee City Archives. The poem compares the beauty of Dundee to London and Edinburgh.
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Devoit Dundee doughtie and doubtit ay
Ane seur to fois ane pleaso[u]r to thy prince
Who neuer frome god nor kyng declyned away
For churche and countrey soore suddartis in defence
Thy policie puisance and prouidence
Thy ships thy strengthis what poet can furth skan
Thy situatione of suche magnificence
By nature wrought is figoured lyik a man
I say no more looke Albiones Ile all through
Is none lyik the saiff Lundone & Edinbroughe
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