Editing Alliterative verse (section)

===Death of the alliterative tradition===

After the fifteenth century, alliterative verse became fairly uncommon; possibly the last major poem in the tradition is [[William Dunbar]]'s ''[[The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo|Tretis of the Tua Marriit Wemen and the Wedo]]'' (c. 1500). By the middle of the sixteenth century, the four-beat alliterative line had completely vanished, at least from the written tradition: the last poem using the form that has survived, ''Scotish Feilde'', was written in or soon after 1515 for the circle of [[Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby]] in commemoration of the [[Battle of Flodden]].