On_His_Heid-Ake
On His Heid-Ake, also referred to as The Headache and My Heid Did Yak Yesternicht, is a brief poem in Scots by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460) composed at an unknown date.
The poem describes Dunbar's experience of a severe headache which he refers to as a "magryme". The symptoms described, such as pain, depression and photophobia are consistent with the modern diagnosis of migraine. The work consists of three short stanzas and is preserved in the Reidpeth Manuscript of the seventeenth century, now held by Cambridge University Library.[1]