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No manuscript of the poem is extant.

The earliest surviving edition ( c. 1553 ) was printed at London by William Copland ( d. 1569 ); an Edinburgh edition, from the press of Henry Charteris ( d. 1599 ), followed in 1579.

From certain indications in the latter and the evidence of some odd leaves discovered by David Laing, it has been concluded that there was an earlier Edinburgh edition, which has been ascribed to Thomas Davidson, printer, and dated c. 1540.