E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Rhymer.
Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas Learmount, of Ercildoune, who lived in the thirteenth century. This was quite a different person to Thomas Rymer, the historiographer royal to William III. (who flourished 1283). (See TRUE THOMAS.)
