Montgomerie, Alexander, Scottish poet, born, it is alleged, in Ayrshire, from a branch of the Eglinton family; wrote sonnets and some short poems, but his best-known piece is an allegorical poem, “The Cherry and the Slae” (1556‒1610).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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