The Taill of Rauf Coilyear printed by Robert Lekpreuik at St Andrews in 1572

A facsimile of the only known copy The Tale of Ralph the Collier, also known as The Tale of Ralph Collier and The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, is a Scottish dialect Middle English poem composed in the late fifteenth century. It constituted a revival of Middle English alliterative verse, wherein the first and middle parts of each verse begin with the same sound.