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Of James Dog or, more fully, Of James Dog, Kepair of the Quenis Wardrop is a poem of
William Dunbar William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460 – died by 1530) was a Scottish makar, or court poet, active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV and produced a large body of work in ...
in which the poet complains to Queen Margaret Tudor of Scotland about the keeper of her wardrobe, James Dog.W. Mackay Mackenzie, The Poems of William Dunbar. Faber and Faber, London, 1932. pp. 61-62, 210.The full text with notes at TEAMS
/ref> In the work Dunbar claims to have asked Dog for a
doublet Doublet is a word derived from the Latin ''duplus'', "twofold, twice as much",